Techmania Science Centre in Pilsen. Mere observation is not enough...keep discovering!

Don’t come just to see the newly opened Science Centre. You can try most of our exhibits for yourself.

You will find answers to such questions as: What happens to you when you experience an electric shock of 200,000 volts? How can we see what is invisible? How has nature inspired us? You can even try to do the job of a presenter, for example, and experience what it’s like to hear your own voice in delay.

Techmania Science offers its visitors four main exhibitions:
1) The Edutorium
2) The ŠKODA Exhibition
3) Copyright Nature
4) Scientific Toy

1) The Edutorium is the main exhibition of the Techmania Science Centre. The exhibition focuses on exhibits related to physics with subject matter suitable for grammar and secondary school students:
• Acoustics, mechanical waves and oscillations
• Electricity and magnetism
• Mechanics
• Thermal energy
• Optics

2) The ŠKODA Exhibition presents the development of the Škoda factories from their foundation (1859) to the present through large-scale photographs, prototypes and final products. Visitors will see, for example, a steam turbine from 1922 and a fully functional ŠKODA 6 Mt metro car from 2005.

3) “Copyright Nature” displays the natural patterns and principles that people have adopted and used in their own activities. This exhibition will be open until August 2009.
Structure of the exhibition:
• Ten independent “islands” each with one exhibit
• Tactile displays that serve to deepen visitors’ understanding of the theme
• Cinema with simultaneous projection onto three screens

4) Scientific Toy is a touring exhibition featuring toys from 36 countries around the world. In total, visitors will be able to see around 150 toys, whose functions cover several different fields.
The concept of the Techmania Science Centre, a pilot science centre project, is still unfamiliar in the Czech Republic as the development of these centres is only now slowly gaining support in countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Slovenia, Hungary and Estonia already have functioning science centres. Around the world, science centres have become greatly favoured places for spending free time.

We are opening on 4 November 2008 and will be here for you every day from 9 am to 5 pm.