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New Museum in Göttingen: a family trip to the Forum of Knowledge
Göttingen.Knowledge and science in various forms have been on display since last weekend at the New Knowledge Forum at the University of Göttingen, in the immediate vicinity of the train station. The excitement could already be heard from many quarters on opening day. But is visiting the museum also beneficial for families with children?
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Presentation from the University of Gottingen
Knowledge Forum is the new science museum at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. In different halls, from the lecture hall and library to the laboratory, where everything scientifically works and how knowledge is created is shown. The wooden boardwalk is also included in the museum.
More than 1,500 exhibits are displayed in the Knowledge Forum. Some are now available to the public for the first time. In addition to the core exhibition, special exhibitions are also part of the museum’s programme. Admission and visits to special exhibitions, guided tours and tours are free.
For people who want to invest more time in their visit to the museum, the café, which complements the museum experience, should also be of interest.
The Knowledge Forum on Berliner Strasse 28 is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm.
More information can be found on the Internet at: www.forum-wissen.de.
From the preserved porcupine fetus to the typewriter: The Knowledge Forum touches on a variety of topics and brings them together in a way that also gives non-specialists food to think about the topics. The Museum relies not only on description boards, but primarily on an interactive smartphone application that provides either audio contributions to the exhibits, audio of various videos from the Museum, or in-depth information via text.
Smartphone app and analog tours
In addition, users of the app can create their own virtual gallery and then take it home with them – but this only applies if they use the app on their own device. The museum offers people who do not own such a device the opportunity to borrow one.
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Free guided tours are also available. These are currently used a lot in the classrooms that visit the museum. But private individuals also have the opportunity to register for this, as one of the museum employees explains.
Practical exhibition for children
The practical exhibition “Mini-Mathematikum” is especially interesting for children. According to the dashboard, children should have the opportunity to experience mathematics with all their senses. Kids can explore numbers, shapes and patterns in 15 stations. Mathematical phenomena are presented in a playful way. This part of the Knowledge Forum is aimed specifically at a young audience of three years old. “The bubble was amazing,” said six-year-old Mila, for example, who was exploring the museum with her grandparents. In this experiment, she was able to make a giant soap bubble herself. The cool thing is that the kids are inside the bubble.
The rest of the exhibit is not explicitly designed for children. However, in some exhibition rooms there are still small games or the opportunity to really touch various exhibits – which is well received by children. Six-year-old Mila was so excited to examine how the typewriter worked. and other rooms that amaze museum visitors, young and old, as soon as they enter. For example, the library room, where books are stacked almost to the ceiling, forming a seating alcove.
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However, it should be noted that children may need supervision when visiting the Knowledge Forum. Most of the exhibits were explained, but often only by information panels, which were sometimes text-heavy or not placed at the height of young children. Likewise, some of the exhibits are difficult for children’s eyes to see, since the showcases are also high.
Written by Eve Bernhardt