Copernicus Science Center

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The center from the north when it opened in autumn 2010
Copernicus Science Center
planetarium
Robotic Theater - RoboTheSpian
Foucault's pendulum

The Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw (Polish: Centrum Nauki Kopernik ) is a building complex on the western bank of the Vistula , dedicated to the promotion of knowledge. It is named after Nicolaus Copernicus . Visitors can independently carry out experiments that explain the basic laws of science. The center is a joint project of the capital Warsaw, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of National Education.

history

The initiative to establish the center came from Łukasz Turski , a professor of theoretical physics at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. In December 2005, the project of the architectural team “RAr-2 Laboratorium Architektury” Gilner + Kubec was selected in the competition. In November of the following year, the projects for two museum areas (“The world in motion” and “People and the environment”) from a consortium of two Dutch companies (Bruns and NorthernLight) were accepted in another call for tenders. In further tenders, the Hüttinger company won the orders for the exhibitions “The Roots of Civilization” and “The Zones of Light”.

Construction work began in July 2008. The building stands on the banks of the Vistula near the city center. It was built on the ceiling of a modern road tunnel not far from the university library and the “Centrum Nauki Kopernik” subway station.

The main building was inaugurated in November 2010. In 2011 the ECSITE ( European Network of Science Centers and Museums ) conference took place in the center .

structure

After its complete completion, the center will consist of different parts:

  • a two-storey building on an L-shaped floor plan with 15,000 m² of usable space for exhibition rooms, laboratories, a conference center, a restaurant and café as well as office space
  • Parking and workshop rooms in the basement
  • a multimedia planetarium with a 16-meter-high dome in a body that is reminiscent of a huge boulder and which is crowned by a viewing platform
  • Inventors Park - with an amphitheater

The six exhibition areas of the science center include hundreds of interactive exhibits on an area of ​​5500 square meters:

  • The world in motion
  • People and the environment
  • The roots of civilization
  • The youngest
  • The zone of light
  • The youth gallery

See also

Web links

Commons : Copernicus Science Center  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 31 ″  N , 21 ° 1 ′ 42 ″  E