Swiss Science Center Technorama
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| place | Winterthur |
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| opening | 1982 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 277,641 (2017) |
| management |
Thorsten-D. Künnemann
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The Swiss Science Center Technorama (in common parlance mostly just Technorama ) in Winterthur is the only science center in Switzerland . On an exhibition area of 6,500 square meters, over 500 experiment stations are available to freely and independently discover natural phenomena and gain new experiences.
Content
The Technorama is first and foremost an exhibition that spans multiple sectors (e.g. magnetism ). In addition, there are a total of six laboratories with workshops on biology , chemistry and physics . There are also daily demonstrations, including about electricity and gases . There are also special exhibitions, of which individual exhibits will later be integrated into the permanent exhibition.
As the largest extracurricular learning location in Switzerland, it is regularly used by school classes. In 2018 Technorama counted around 267,000 admissions.
While the Technorama itself is listed as a cultural asset of supraregional importance, the Bommer toy train collection belonging to the museum is part of the inventory of cultural assets of national importance.
In 2017 the Technorama opened an Escape Room in cooperation with AdventureRooms under the name AdventureRooms Technorama . The two games are called spectrum and continuum . Many of the puzzles are based on scientific and technological phenomena. The AdventureRooms Technorama are located in the Technorama building, they can also be booked independently of a visit to the Technorama.
financing
25 percent of Technorama's income comes from the public sector and 12 percent from business, foundations and private individuals; Technorama generates the remaining 63 percent itself (figures for the 2015 financial year).
Location and transport links
The Technorama is located on the outskirts of Winterthur in the Oberwinterthur district near the Oberwinterthur train station . It is also connected directly to Winterthur train station via bus line 5 of the local Stadtbus Winterthur transport company . The Oberwinterthur exit of the A1 motorway is around 1.5 km away.
history
In 1947 an association was founded to promote and develop a technical museum in Switzerland. The Technorama Foundation in Switzerland was established in 1969 with the aim of presenting “science and technology in a living exhibition” in the form of an exhibition. From 1982 onwards, this exhibition could still be seen as a conventional, more museum-like show. From 1990, under the direction of the then director Remo Besio, a new model was developed, the conversion of a museum into an experimental field, which is supposed to enable acting experiences. This conversion was completed around the year 2000. Since November 2008, the German biologist and marketing specialist Thorsten-D. Künnemann the Technorama.
literature
- Hans-Erhard Lessing: Natural beauty - phenomena in the Technorama . 208 p. Four-colored, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-7193-1388-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Graf: Three million are still missing for the “Wunderbrücke” . In: The Landbote . Winterthur January 4, 2018, p. 3 ( landbote.ch [accessed on January 14, 2019]).
- ↑ Technorama Annual Report 2018, p. 2.
- ^ KGS inventory of the B objects. Federal Office for Civil Protection , January 1, 2017, accessed on February 15, 2017 (No direct link to PDF, as the name of this was provisional at the time of the entry.).
- ↑ AdventureRooms Technorama - Escape Room with Science in Winterthur. Retrieved on March 26, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
- ↑ Technorama Annual Report 2015, p. 28.
- ↑ http://www.technorama.ch/informationen/besucherinformationen/wegbeschreibung/