Innovative museums of the world: “it is forbidden not to touch, not to think and not to feel!”


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    May 18 in the world celebrates International Museum Day. The holiday, which appeared in 1977 and is designed to fulfill the responsible mission of cultural exchange, cultural enrichment, development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace between people. Most often, we learn about him from the project “Museum Night”, which takes place on the night of Saturday to Sunday, on the dates closest to May 18th. But around the world there is a diverse system of celebration: someone celebrates only on May 18, someone on the weekend, like us, and someone generally spends the whole week on this process! But in our time, the idea of ​​the museum has changed a lot, thanks to various technologies that are being introduced into museum expositions every day. Therefore, today we will talk about several innovative museums in the world that are worth visiting at least once in a lifetime.

    Miraikan Museum (Japan, Tokyo)



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    six-story Japanese National Museum of Science and Innovation is one of the main assets of the nation. Translated from Japanese means "Museum of the Future", which contains all the advanced technologies of the country. In Miraikan, you can assemble a person in parts of the body, temporarily become an astronaut flying in low Earth orbit, listen to lectures by leading world scientists and even make friends with robots.

    One of them is the Asimo Android Robot.Honda company. The speed of his movement in the museum is 6 km / h, comparable to the speed of movement of an ordinary person. He can move up the stairs, play football and sees everything that happens around him and reacts very quickly to what is happening. He moves around the museum for a reason, he likes to conduct conversations with visitors in real time, recognizing the speech of several people.


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    The museum is all interactive. All exhibits can be touched and viewed from various angles. Near each exhibit you can find a monitor on which any information that interests the visitor is displayed. A very large exposition is dedicated to space issues. On the ground floor is the first of its kind model of the Earth’s view from orbit - “Geo-Cosmos”, completely consisting of liquid crystal displays. It was created on the initiative of the head of the museum - one of the first Japanese astronauts Mamoru Mori . He wanted to share with people the beauty of a sparkling Earth visible from space. On the second floor you can find laboratories, conduct various experiments in them, or even visit the place of eyewitnesses to natural disasters.

    Beijing Science and Technology Museum (China)



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    The Beijing Museum of Science and Technology was created to enhance the cultural and scientific potential of the entire nation and educate young people. Therefore, there are many interactive exhibitions that can not only deepen basic scientific knowledge, but also inculcate a scientific approach in everyday life. The museum consists of three pavilions. The central one is made in the form of a spiral, meaning the infinity of the development of science. In total, the museum has over 500 exhibits telling about China's achievements in science and its role in the world community.

    Each section of the museum is responsible for a separate direction: high technology, industry, transport, aviation, biology, fundamental discoveries, energy, etc. But the most popular among visitors was the section of inventions from the time of Ancient China.

    One of the museum’s most popular attractions is the 4D cinema. In it, visitors can experience special effects such as rain, fog, wind, snow, lightning and even taste. This room combines tactile, auditory visual and sensation, as well as sense of smell. It is important to note that this museum has the cinema with the largest screen in the world, which can fit 700 people.

    London Museum of Science (UK)



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    paradox of this museum is that it is one of the oldest museums in the world and at the same time one of the most high-tech. 53 permanent exhibitions of the museum will help you immerse yourself in the history of the development of science and technology in chronological order: from the first industrial revolution to modern nanotechnology. The museum exposition is considered unique and consists of 300 thousand exhibits. Here you can find the "difference machine" of Charles Babbage - the prototype of the computer in 1849. Nearby you can find the oldest surviving engine - "Puffing Billy." And if you go a little further, you can see the Apollo 10 capsule, in which Eugene Cernan, Thomas Stafford and John Young circled the moon in 1969.

    The first thing the visitor sees is the central hall, where you can see the Corliss steam engine in working condition. From it you can see about 60 glass theme galleries. The museum consists of five floors. At the very top, you can see aircraft of all eras. All exhibits can be touched by hands, interacting with them. And the children really like it.

    City of Arts and Sciences (Spain, Valencia)



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    The project is an outstanding example of modern architecture and the intellectual pearl of Europe. A futuristic city consists of six main elements:

    • Hemisferic hemisphere. It houses the halls of documentary films and digital projection,
    • Umbracle Greenhouse (landscape gazebo and underground parking),
    • The Prince Felipe Science Museum “Museo de las Ciencias Principe Felipe” is an innovative interactive science center,
    • The Oceanorafico Aquarium is Europe’s largest saltwater aquarium with over 500 marine species,
    • "Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía" - opera house,
    • The Ágora complex, which hosts tennis matches and concerts.

    This city can offer the visitor a lot of entertainment: visiting the "theater of electricity", testing zero gravity, walking through the "forest of chromosomes" and the Walk of Scientists (like the Walk of Fame, only for scientists).

    MoMA (USA, New York)



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    Innovations are not always represented only in scientific museums, for high-tech art it is worth going to the New York Museum of Modern Art. And it’s clear why. Installations using various modern technologies are regularly presented here. They change so quickly that it is difficult to track. One of the most striking exhibitions of this type was the Rain Room project. If you look at the photo, it’s not entirely clear what the complexity and adaptability of the exhibition is. But the answer is quite simple - you cannot get wet under this rain! Human movements control jets of water.


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    Deutsches Museum (Germany, Munich)



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    The largest museum of science and technology in Europe and the world is located in Munich. It houses the Center for New Technologies, where you can see several progressive exhibits and laboratories. Here you can find many different equipment: ships, submarines, planes, cars, moon rovers, and you can even touch them. No layouts, all real!

    On the top floor is the space pavilion. And at the very bottom are fragments of various mines and a small brick factory. One room is dedicated to a nuclear reactor. Visitors can see panoramic views of the “nano-cosmos” in the exposition of nano- and biotechnologies, and in the DNA laboratory it will give the opportunity to participate in experiments in the field of genetics and genetic engineering. All these laboratories are located in the UFO model located above the exhibition hall. And if you want to take courses in robotics or astronomy, then they can do it in the laboratory of the Munich Technical University.

    Newseum (USA, Washington)



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    dedicated to media lovers ... An extraordinary museum of news journalism is located in Washington. On the wall of one of the galleries you can see the front pages of newspapers from around the world, but sometimes they appear on the building of the museum itself. In the museum you can find everything related to journalism. In the newsroom, visitors can take a microphone, stand in front of the camera and read out the text of the news. On the "Hot Chair" you can feel the magic of deadline and pass the test for aptitude. Interactive kiosks of the Ethics Center offer visitors to answer everyday questions for professional journalists, but they must be tried to answer correctly.

    Instead of a conclusion: Bible Museum (USA, Washington)


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    So far it is hard to imagine such a thing, but religion and technology will gather in one place to create a unique technological Bible Museum! It will open at the end of 2017 and its area will be 40,000 square meters and it will house biblical expositions and 12 interactive sites, 384 monitors, 93 projectors and 83 interactive elements. To get around this museum completely, visitors will have to walk around it for a week.


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