Science Center Bonn

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Science Center Bonn, 2006
Main entrance, 2020

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Conference room, 2012

The Bonn Science Center is an institution of the Stifterverband for German science in Bonn . It is located in the north of the district of Plittersdorf an der Ahrstrasse.

The center is intended to serve as a dialogue center for science , business , politics and the general public, in which national specialist congresses and conferences regularly take place. The science center houses 20 national and international scientific institutions and associations. It also holds changing exhibitions in the field of science, including from state museums and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . Around 400–500 people are employed in the Bonn center, including part of the office of the German Research Foundation (DFG) , the main building of which adjoins the science center to the west. In the 1990s, this also included the DFG's own data center on the northwest ground floor. At times (as of 1981) the science center also housed the science department of the Embassy of Mexico and until 1996 the secretariat of the Convention for the Conservation of Migratory Wildlife Species, supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) . The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) has had a representative office here since 1996.

The center was built in 1973 according to plans by the architects Erich Schneider-Wessling and Ernst van Dorp . The building is a reinforced concrete structure and has up to seven floors. In 1995, a three-story building was added to the north side. This created a connection to the headquarters of the German Academic Exchange Service on Kennedyallee . In the same year the German Museum Bonn was set up in the southern part of the Science Center. The renovation and expansion work was planned by the Munich architect Sepp Rössle and the Bonn architect Wilfried Pilhatsch and supported with 24 million euros from the agreement on compensatory measures for the Bonn region .

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Commons : Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of November 1981)
  2. ^ World Directory of Environmental Organizations , California Institute of Public Affairs, 1989, p. 40.
  3. ↑ Science & Technology Division, Taipei Representative Office in Germany , Ministry of Science and Technology

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 58.1 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 59.5 ″  E