If you think that “science” and “fun” are two words that have absolutely nothing to do with each other, then you are deeply mistaken. Moreover, in Moscow there is a museum that can demonstrate to you the whole depth of your error. And strangely enough, you can easily check this postulate from your own experience, when you try to create a cloud yourself, tame a lightning, and not even get into a black hole, being in close proximity to it. And all this magic will be demonstrated to you by the Experimentanium Museum of Entertaining Sciences. As the name implies, the museum is entirely dedicated to scientific experiments. And therefore it is not surprising that rule number 1 here says: “Touch everything that you see!”
But what is the interest of science?
The Experimentanium Museum is a world of scientific amusements for people of all ages. While children are indescribably delighted with the local “miracles,” adults also get the opportunity to wake up their inner child within themselves, rediscovering the laws by which the world around them lives. For example, there is a table and a chair, the dimensions of which are twice the size of the usual furniture for us. They give visitors the opportunity to see furniture as it seemed to them at the age of three.
In addition, visitors can experiment and play with more than a hundred displays and puzzles. The Experimentanium Museum of Entertaining Science will show you a lot of optical illusions and visual tests, special gadgets that will show how the human body works. So, you can see how the human eye perceives light and color and forms an image on the retina.
Both children and adults can have fun building an arch bridge without a single nail, creating variability in coloring the projection of the human body depending on the temperature characteristics of organs, using just a few coins, here you can create a model of the Universe and observe the movement of planets, and even create your black hole and see how it draws into itself everything that approaches it. The Experimentalium Museum of Experimental Sciences even has a special unit for moving weights that can lift you into the air.
History of the Experimentium
Among other things, it provides explanations of all scientific facts and phenomena that are accessible even to babies. Therefore, if you want to interest your child in science or deepen his knowledge in one or another field, you are strictly shown a visit to the Experimentalium Museum of Entertaining Sciences. Moscow, by the way, is far from the only city in the world where there are such establishments. The first and unique museum of science was opened in 1982 in the United States. Now you will not surprise anyone. So, there is its own Experimentanium museum in Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-Don, Minsk, Kiev, Odessa and many other cities and countries.
Who and why to go to the museum?
The Experimentanium Museum of Entertaining Sciences is shown to small buddies who are just starting to learn about the world and are filling up their parents with their endless questions, teenagers who are bored of sitting at school, young people looking for inspiration and creativity, and adults who are hungry for new sensations and who dream of returning for a moment childhood.
Museum of entertaining sciences "Experimentium": prices
Despite the richest expositions and opportunities, the cost of visiting the museum is available to anyone. So, children under 3 years old are admitted for free, a child ticket (under 16 years) will cost you 350 (weekdays) or 450 (weekends) rubles, an adult 450 (weekdays) or 550 (weekends) rubles. In addition, a special system of discounts and bonuses has been developed, for example, a family subscription for 1,500 rubles. For comparison, a ticket to the Kiev Experimentium costs 210 and 270 rubles (children and adults, respectively), and in Europe the average price for admission to the science museum is 1,500 rubles (Copenhagen, Denmark).
How to become a scientist?
In addition to exciting excursions, a number of educational programs also work at the Museum of Science, including international ones, for example, The World of Researchers Henkel (together with Germany), Scientists for Children, all kinds of courses and master classes. All of them are aimed at popularization of science among children and youth and the development of the scientific potential of Russia, for example, in robotics courses your child can construct a real space satellite with his own hands and, possibly, become famous throughout the world as an ingenious scientist. interest will make it possible to realize any, even the most fantastic undertaking. On SHOU Tesla you will create lightning with your own hands, and in the framework of other programs, biologists will tell you about DNA and even teach you to isolate it from an ordinary banana. your children can take part in scientific competitions and quizzes organized by the museum’s administration, as well as purchase useful “scientific toys”, such as kits for growing crystals, microbiological experiments, robots, engine models, etc.
So if you are a passionate lover of applied and fundamental sciences, then this place must be visited. Here, any person, even despite the possible negative experience of boring school, suddenly discovers that science leads him to indescribable delight.