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Collaboration instead of spraying, your experiments instead of displays and display boards – that’s the idea of the Science Center. High fire tornadoes and shadow games with amazing effects are not only loved by children.
Phæno Wolfsburg: Education at all levels
Wolfsburg: A robot talks to visitors at the Phaeno science museum
©Phaeno (Janina Snatzke)
Perhaps Europe’s craziest test hall has stood at the edge of Autostadt Wolfsburg since 2005. Germany’s largest science center is the 9,000 square meter Phæno. As architecture fans admire the concrete and steel building designed by star architect Zaha Hadid, which the Guardian considers one of the twelve most important modern buildings – now in the world, most of the new guests are already inside. No wonder, in an area with craters, terraces, plateaus and caves, about 350 test stations, freely distributed and some designed by artists, invite you to press buttons and experiment things. Things like fog and cloud formation, magnetism, gravity, light and shadow, electricity and sound can be observed through human experiments. Robot robot “Robo” gets special love. Functional mirror displays and “witches’ houses” are also very popular. By the way: Anyone who has actually been on fire – for example facing the world’s largest fire tornado with a diameter of more than six meters – can also quench their thirst for knowledge in the laboratories several hands.
Universe Bremen: Cosmic things in the big clam
Bremen: Science Center Universum
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Does chocolate really make you happy? What is Camera Obscura? The universe of Bremen provides answers to this. But above all to the question of what a cool museum looks like in the 21st century. The Science Center, which reopened in 2015 with a completely revised concept, attracts young and old visitors from far and wide – thanks to its design that looks like a silver combination of a whale and a giant clam. 40,000 stainless steel shingles ensure good results, even at night. The elegance continues inside, where visitors wander from the center of the earth to the top and to the sky or even in the womb of travel, passing 300 hand stations with human heads, the world’ as a universe. By pressing a button in the earthquake room the walls move and in some places shadows are placed on white areas. In the outdoor area of 5,000 square meters, “Discoverer Park”, there are other stations that deal with the subject of exercise and unusual parts of the country. The 27-meter-tall, twisted “Tower of the Skies” towers over it all.
Odysseum Cologne: Education? Entertainment? A game? Everything at once!
Cologne: City view with Cologne Cathedral
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New owner, new concept, new attractions: After long discussions on whether the Science Center on the site of an old chemical factory could continue to exist, the Odysseum celebrated its return in 2021. The direction of the “Adventure Museum” is now: less school knowledge, more games and fun, more indoor play areas and a wider audience, including children of care a day with the grandparents. In addition to improved visual and spatial services such as the “Museum with the Mouse”, in honor of the famous children’s exhibition, as well as the “Roll and Move” arena, a dark playroom and an extensive game. construction site, the award-winning “SisyFox” gaming platform among the new attractions. What’s special: The manager is a medicine ball, and in order for the players to move it, they have to use a lot of energy. Other stations such as the virtual world “Spree Arena” and the three-dimensional “Street Art Gallery” require more technical understanding, since analogue and digital experiences are connected there.
Visitor mine F60: It’s really a big deal!
Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf: Bridge carrying the passenger mine F60
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It weighs 11,000 tons, is 80 meters high, 204 meters wide and half a kilometer long. South of Brandenburg there is a real giant, called “The Lying Eiffel Tower of Lusatia”. Although the world’s largest machine has not moved since 1992, since then it has transported many visitors. Finally, the original F60 load-carrying bridge, on Lake Bergheider See southeast of Finsterwalde, offers an interesting insight into the history of brown coal mining and beautiful views over the Lusatian Lake District. It’s great when other guides talk about their time as miners. To enjoy the full view, which on good days extends as far as Saxon Switzerland, you need to leave the 1.3 km long circular road and climb the 100 m tall observatory 74. The (safe) way is important. Especially for the adrenaline junkies who don’t come back but shut up. Other special events are also impressive, but less powerful, such as concerts or night tours, where the F60 is highlighted with light and sound installation by artist HP Kuhn.
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