Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos

The Museum of Science and the Cosmos is not a traditional museum. It belongs to a generation of science museums whose objective is no longer simply to show scientific and technical achievements of a time or place, nor to demonstrate them by adding a pedagogical and cultural will to the conservation and presentation of that heritage.

The objective of these museums is to communicate science, making use of all the available means, especially interactivity and experimentation in multidisciplinary environments that enhance the recreational aspects and the perception and analysis of reality, with real objects but also with multimedia tools.

The physicist Frank Oppenheimer created in 1969 the first Science Center with these characteristics -the Exploratorium in San Francisco-, placing the emphasis not on a collection of objects, but on the questions that the scientific evolution generates. Following this model, the Museum of Science and the Cosmos tries to exhibit science that refines the senses and develops the imagination.

As agents of dissemination and promotion of scientific culture, as well as education in general, institutions such as the Museum of Science and the Cosmos fulfill a double function in this sense. On the one hand, they contribute significantly to the scientific literacy process of society as a complementary element to the educational system, during formal and regulated education, even trying to awaken much-needed scientific vocations. And, on the other, they play a fundamental role in the processes of scientific dissemination oriented towards citizens in the context of the so-called “non-formal education”, without forgetting that they can constitute spaces for cultural entertainment and form part of the tourist offer of a town. .

The Museum of Science and the Cosmos, open to the participation of the public of all ages, is a space of inspiration and a generator of emotions that invites curiosity permanently.