well, its been a week now but i think its worth writing about it anyway. yes, it is definitely worth to pay a visit to the museum of science, sponsored and mantained by one of the bigest if not biggest financial enterprices of catalunia/spain. the caixa is one of the most important banks around here, maybe to be compared with the german "sparkasse"... part of the caixa is their foundation
fundatión caixa
that mantains various projects.
one of those things is the cosmocaixa. build upon one of the hills surrounding bcn a huge modern building provides the space for an unusual museum of science. you can explore, touch and try out lots of experiments about gravity, light, presure and countless other forces that influence our live on earth. not only kids roam facinated from one experiment to the next. all the explanations and theories you find there are written in an interesting manner far away from beeing boring.
you can stroll through a miniature-rainforest, see ancient writings or encounter different theories about how the dinosaurs had been extinguished and of course lived.
sometimes there are extra sesions like to one introducing a humanoide robot called asimo developed by honda.
as i try to write this down, it doesn't seem to be that interesting but i recomend a visit to everybody coming to bcn. since the museum is quite new in bcn the entry is free till the 9th of january.
you can see a tiny recording of asimo in files-part of this page...
asimo1 (avi, 1,075 KB)