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Events
17 October 2019 - 18 October 2019
Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art
Laudongasse 15-19
1080
Vienna
Austria
AT
Improving our work with and for marginalised groups of adult migrants and refugees.
30 June 2019 - 3 November 2019
Madatech
Haifa
Israel
IL
After its opening run at Scitech, the science center located in Perth, Australia, Map it! navigated to Madatech, Haifa, Israel.
With its very unique topics, Map it! is the kind of unusual exhibition that visitors from Madatech enjoy, especially in summer, which is one of their peak season.
Here is a great video of the exhibition at Madatech.
14 April 2019 - 3 November 2019
Weltkulturerbe Völkinger Hütte
Rathausstraße 75-79
66333
Völklingen
, SL
Germany
Saarland DE
Every two years, the Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site’s UrbanArt Biennale® showcases the most recent developments and trends in international urban art. It is the largest urban art project in the world.
More than 400,000 people have visited the biennale since it was first held in 2011, and nearly 300 renowned urban artists, including Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Futura, have exhibited their work at Völklinger Hütte.
27 April 2019 - 19 May 2019
City of Science
Catania
Italy
IT
The exhibition Let's give the numbers! - A 3D journey through Fingers, Dice and Data: a fascinating interactive exhibition to discover the world of mathematics and numbers through games and stories. Figures, data, averages, errors, surveys, risk assessments: today we are called to deal more and more with the numbers and even if we can delegate these concerns to others, learning to use and understand the numbers helps us to orient ourselves in the world and take conscious decisions.
25 May 2019 - 4 September 2019
Life Science Centre
Times Square,
NE1 4EP
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
United Kingdom
GB
Game On 2.0 explores the vibrant history, culture and future of gaming, entertainment and technology through more than 150 playable games.
Visitors can play a range of games from arcade classics to modern favourites, including fun party games, such as Rock Band 3.
The exhibition also explores the latest developments in gaming, including how virtual reality is creating ever-more immersive gaming experiences.
25 May 2019
Raumschiff - The Maker-Space for Astronomy
Am Wasser 4
8600
Duebendorf
Switzerland
CH
Computational creatures: BastelMix from low- to high-tech
Join us for a day long tinkering workshop with Ryan Jenkins of Wonderful Idea Co at Raumschiff - the Maker-Space (not only) for Astronomy in Zurich.
8 July 2019 - 10 July 2019
Wellcome Genome Campus
CB10 1SA
Hinxton
United Kingdom
GB
The Public Engagement Masterclass at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, UK, is now in its fourth year and supports researchers from all disciplines who aspire to be research leaders in their fields and establish a reputation for quality, embedded public engagement in the context of their research portfolio.
The course will take place from 8 - 10 July 2019, and applications close on 16 April 2019.
6 April 2019 - 23 April 2019
Life Science Centre
Times Square,
NE1 4EP
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
United Kingdom
GB
Whether you prefer a Mars or a Milky Way, Life Science Centre is a feast for the whole Galaxy this Easter and children go free* until 6 May 2019!
Highlights of what is included with admission:
It wouldn’t be Easter without chocolate, so enjoy a scrumptious scientific chocolate demonstration that puts your senses to the test!
Join us for the Big Drop Challenge: you will have a few minutes and an array of materials to create a contraption that will be dropped from a great height. Will it float, spin, tumble or fly?
2 February 2019 - 6 April 2019
Life Science Centre
Times Square,
NE1 4EP
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
United Kingdom
GB
It has created a sensation across the world and now Museum of the Moon will shine in Life Science Centre in Newcastle from 2 February until 6 May 2019.
The seven-metre-wide spherical artwork, created by UK artist Luke Jerram, is suspended in the air and displays NASA imagery of the lunar surface. This allows visitors to explore the Moon’s surface in incredible detail – without ever stepping foot off the planet.
11 March 2019 - 17 March 2019
Academy of Sciences
Národní 1009/3
110 00
Prague
Czech Republic
CZ
Týden mozku (Week of the Brain) is a unique cycle of lectures on the newest discoveries and trends in brain research and neuroscience, which is a part of the Brain Awareness Week (BAW), the world's largest public awareness campaign on the success and benefits of brain research. The Week of the Brain in the Czech Republic was initiated and established by the Czech neuroscientist, Professor Josef Syka in 1998.
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News
Wellcome Genome Campus - Connecting Science
20 September 2019
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic Public Engagement team at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire.
We are looking for an Exhibitions and Interpretation Coordinator to shape and develop our upcoming programme of exhibitions and wider Campus experiences including our monthly Open Saturday programme.
The post is a full time 1-year maternity cover with a salary range £36,078 to £43,655 depending on experience.
CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
11 September 2019
At CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Apply by 2 October.
Swiss Space Museum Supporters Association
25 July 2019
The Swiss Space Museum celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings with the event 'Tribute to Apollo'.
Pavilion of Knowledge (Pavilhão do Conhecimento) – Centro Ciência Viva
25 July 2019
75 children, aged from 10 to 14, experienced an adventure that they will never forget: ESERO Portugal gave them the opportunity to actually spend the night at the Pavilion of Knowledge, in a space environment especially built to celebrate the 20th of July 1969, when men first set foot upon the Moon. These lucky kids were assigned the mission of projecting a lunar village, with their own hands, and live a true space mission for one day. They were selected by their own teachers for having already presented space-related projects in their schools.
Swiss Space Museum Supporters Association
23 July 2019
"Liftoff to Space" tells the story of spaceflight and space exploration from the past to the present and the future. Eight different topics on around 600 m2 range from the space race and the moon landing to the future of mankind in space. On display are more than 50 original objects from space travel, including flown parts of a Soyuz rocket, the cone of an Ariane 5 rocket, unique artifacts from the Apollo moon landing and more.
Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia 'Leonardo da Vinci'
10 July 2019
We just published “Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century”, a book that examines scientific heritage and narratives in national and international exhibitions and science museums in the twentieth century.
Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
21 June 2019
Elisabeth Rasekoala, Chemical Engineer, and president of African Gong, wins the Nat Award, granted by the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona, for her struggle in favor of diversity, socio-cultural and gender inclusion in the dissemination, learning and practice of science in Africa.
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
28 May 2019
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave was elected European Museum of the Year on Saturday evening. Founded in 1977, this is the oldest and most prestigious museum award in Europe. The international jury praised the completely renewed science and medicine museum in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Hüttinger Interactive Exhibitions
28 May 2019
End of 2008, we were contracted to design and build initial exhibitry for experimenta, which opened a year later in Heilbronn, Germany. In Dezember 2015 we were then entrusted with the conceptual design and development of ForscherLand (Researcher‘s Land) for the modernised experimenta, working closely with the client‘s project team and project partners. This contract was followed by the order to also design and fabricate this gallery.
