The experiment stations
Devices to operate, not panels to read.
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With children between six and sixteen, clearly yes — it is the best thing in the region for those ages and fills a whole day. Without children it is less clear-cut: the stations are enjoyable for adults, but the price is high and the journey forty minutes each way, and Stuttgart itself holds world-class car museums that may have a better claim on your day.
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experimenta in Heilbronn is Germany's largest science centre: five floors and over two hundred and seventy experimental stations across more than twenty-five thousand square metres. Its new building opened in 2019, a distinctive spiralling form on an island in the river Neckar. The logic is entirely hands-on: not long panels to read but devices to operate — generating electricity with your body, making a water vortex, testing your reaction times, building bridges and testing what they bear. The floors are arranged thematically: matter, life, society, technology and space. It also holds a planetarium with a dome screen over fifteen metres across, real laboratories visitors can work in by advance booking, and an observation tower. The place is designed for families but is not childish — adults spend hours in it. The journey from Stuttgart is about forty minutes by train, and a serious visit consumes the whole day.
Devices to operate, not panels to read.
A helical form on an island in the Neckar.
Experimenta-Platz 1, 74072 Heilbronn