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The Science Museum of Camerino University presents a real moon rock into the galleries of its permanent exhibition, partly renovated, on April 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2016 (special opening, 10.00 am to 7 pm).
The rock, collected on the moon by Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell during the Apollo 14 mission (February 1971), will be closely observed and photographed by the public.
Join us online from March 24–April 27 for Exploring Light. Taught by Teacher Institute staff and offered by the Exploratorium through the Coursera platform, Exploring Light is a free professional development workshop for middle-school and high-school science teachers and general enthusiasts. Learn about visual perception, optics, image making, color, and the history of our understanding of light—by watching demonstrations of videos and exhibits and by doing fun, hands-on activities that allow you to directly experience natural phenomena using readily available materials.
As of 23 October, the interactive special exhibition “EY ALTER – du kannst dich mal kennenlernen” (HEY MAN – get to know yourself sometime) will be offering fresh and new ideas focusing on ageing, day-to-day life and the world of work.
Maker Faire UK is the greatest show (and tell) on Earth! It’s a two day family friendly festival of invention and creativity, bringing together over 300 hackers, crafters, coders, DIYers and garden shed inventors from across the globe.
Your brain is the most amazing and mysterious thing about you – and something that you probably take for granted. The Brain Zone lets you understand what’s going on inside your head through exciting, fun activities and exhibits. Explore what makes you ‘you’! Scientists are discovering new things every day and you, and your brilliant brain, can help improve our understanding by visiting The Brain Zone and taking part in experiments.
Brain Zone is a new, permanent exhibition at Life Science Centre and will open to the public on 25 March 2016.
On 18-20 February 2016, around 70 students aged 16-19 will come together and debate over the topic of “The Future of Human Being” in Tartu.
National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci is busy planning and welcomes proposals from all museum professionals by 28 January.
We are happy and proud to announce the fourth edition of
INSPIRE (INternational »Science Performance Is Ready« Event)
May 30th – June 3rd 2016 in
Hiša eksperimentov (The House of experiments), Ljubljana, Slovenia
During the five day workshop participants will very actively learn how to:
Celebrate with us the 10 years of the submarine at the Museum: Tours on board, meetings with submariners, activities with radio-amateurs and much more.
Experience the Toti from a distance with our new virtual reality app:
Download on your smartphone the free app “Toti submarine VR experience”
Celebrate with us the 10 years of the submarine at the Museum: Tours on board, meetings with submariners, activities with radio-amateurs and much more.
Experience the Toti from a distance with our new virtual reality app:
Download on your smartphone the free app “Toti submarine VR experience”
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We are looking for a public engagement professional to work for our new project ‘Open Science Club’ aiming at engaging children and adults in astronomy over a longer period of time: science - a hobby just like music or sports. The club will be built around citizen science and open data. A variety of activities involving the local and international learning landscapes around astronomy will allow for individual learning paths. A good knowledge of German is a must.
For the French presidency of the Council of the European Union (January-June 2022), Universcience offers to discover Europe’s initiatives, major projects and achievements in the scientific and industrial fields.
After our work for the Cell Lab back in 2005 we were commissioned with its redesign, renovation and remanufacturing in October 2020. As far as possible, old parts and exhibits were reused in the new furniture. The Cell Lab allows the handling of real laboratory equipment and gives an insight into the work of a modern laboratory - it was reopened to the public in mid-November 2021.
all pictures on this page © phaeno, Janina Snatzke
Thank you to the Deutsches Museum (Germany), the Tekniska Museet (Sweden), the Hiša Eksperimentov (Slovenia), the Esplora Interactive Science Centre (Malta) and the Copernicus Science Centre (Poland) !
They were part of the French Science Festival from 1 to 3 October at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie and successfully met with the French audience.
Following our collaborations for H2Oh! and All About You! we were again contracted by the museum to work together with the in-house design team to develop and fabricate exhibits for STEAM PARK.
Achievements in science and art start with the same spark: wonder. When the AAHOM asked a team of Toyota staff what led them to become an engineer, scientist or researcher, each pointed to a moment of childhood wonder as the spark of curiosity that blossomed into a career. These same catalysts to innovation now have a new place to work their magic at AAHOM.
In October 2019 we were awarded by Design and Production Inc. the fabrication contract for the GO and Water exhibitions for Danville Science Center, which included interactive engineering, exhibit development, prototyping, software engineering, content and media development and final graphic design.
From the smallest drop of water to terrifying tsunamis, the Geo’Dynamic! exhibition takes you on an exciting journey of discovery through the meteorological and geophysical phenomena that take place within and on the surface of our Earth. In this new space, designed to look like an Earth observation station, explore, discover, play with, experience and feel: rain, storms, clouds, earthquakes and the wind.
We were entrusted with the design and build of interactives for Geo'Dynamic ! .
all pictures © Pass, Hyacinthe Arthurs
Life Science Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne offered free instructor-led hula hooping sessions for adults on Wednesday 4 August to mark Playday – the National Day of Play in the UK.
In May 2020 we were contracted to design and build 27 interactive exhibits for Explore! the centre‘s new exhibition on approx. 540 m² of their first floor. Explore! places visitors at the heart of the experience, using a design and interpretation philosophy that promotes the centre’s approach to accessible science communication. The exhibition celebrates the wonder and beauty of science around us. It uses exemplar phenomena-based exhibits to develop the scientist in all of us Explorers, Facilitators and Experience Seekers.
CONNECT is Dundee Science Centre‘s redevelopment project to update the ground floor of the centre, bringing in three new exhibition zones and making the centre more accessible to all. Themes in the exhibitions address key topics such as sustainability and support to inspire and develop the workforce of the future.