Barcelona's Science Museum was created in 1981 and it was the first one of this kind in Catalonia and in the whole of Spain. One of its main objectives consists of spreading science and the technology between the general public and, especially, for students.
With a great success of attendance this year the museum celebrates its 20 years of existence.

Barcelona's Science Museum belongs to La Caixa's Foundation and it is one of the most interesting museums that we can find in the city for it leads us to discover a whole world related to science. As well as being a place for divulging science between the public and the students, the museum facilitates the contact between science and education professionals, and the scientific institutions. One of its particularities is that the visitor acts as the real protagonist of the visit, this means that the visitor experiments by itself: people can pretend to be a scientific investigator.
The museum is divided in three big areas: The permanent exhibitions provided with interactive modules that the visitor can manipulate and touch for itself; the temporary exhibitions, where one deepens into monographic topics of the sector and the programs of activities, with workshops, conferences or courses. The permanent individual rooms are divided in the following sections: Perception, optics, waves, mechanics, planet alive, children's click, meteorological station, Foucault's pendulum, the planetarium and the submarine.

It's necessary to emphasize that from the museum's inauguration it has awaken a notable interest between the general public and the school centres and has received a great abundance of visitors. The museum has had more than 6.600.000 since January of the year 2001, of which approximately half of them were made by students.

The Planetarium and Foucalt's pendulum. One of the attractions that concentrates the attention of the museum is, undoubtedly, the visit to the Planetarium. Contemplating the starry sky in Barcelona is possible thanks to an optical and mechanical system that projects a semispherical dome where we can gaze at the stars (600 stars, the planets, the Milky Way, the Sun and the Moon) and really gives the impression that we are outdoors. This device allows to reproduce, in an accelerated way, the celestial movements, as well as to assist in a few minutes time to the seasons' complete cycle and to understand its astronomic reasons.
Before Foucault, nobody could demonstrate with an experiment that the Earth was rotating round itself. We can find the reproduction of this pendulum at the entrance of the museum and it measures 14 m. and the sphere weights 100 kg. An electromagnet placed in the top part provides the necessary energy to offset the constant scrubbind and to keep it in movement.

The museum prepares activities to commemorate its 20 years of existence, some of which will be exhibitions, debates and conferences.

This is a more than interesting museum that you should not drop out, specially for curious people for those who desire to learn.
The Museum of the science is located in the street Teodor Roviralta 55, T: 93 212 60 50