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Museo
Participativo de Ciencias
Museum of Participative Sciences
Recoleta
Junín 1930
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel: 4807-3260
Hours: Open Saturday, Sunday and Holidays (year-round) 3:30 p.m.
to 7:30 p.m.
During the Argentine school year: Mon. – Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Summer Vacation (Dec. & Jan): Mon. – Fri. 12:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Winter Break: Mon. – Fri. 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Admission:
8 pesos
(2.66 USD)per person
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If you
have kids this museum is a must, otherwise you are better off visiting the
art museum next door, Palais de Glace. The motto of this museum is “It is
prohibited NOT to touch”. Every child loves to touch things, and just
about the hardest thing at a museum is looking at interesting things and
not being able to touch them. Well this museum solved that problem;
touching here is encouraged and even required
The museum teaches children about various mathematical, electrical and
geological concepts. These concepts are taught by hands on activities. For
example, a child can re-create the ocean waves with a wave machine, see
the effects of whirlpools and control the whirlpools velocity, and even
see how tornadoes are created. There are extensive descriptions of each of
these activities, but they are all in Spanish.
There is a room devoted to electricity. In this room you can play with
solar power, water power and wind power. There is an exhibit which may be
dangerous for young children. You take a copper wire and connect it to two
separate charges, watch the wire turn red, then burn into two pieces. If
you try to remove the wire before the electrical current is broken then
you can burn your fingers.
Overall I would give this children’s museum 4 out of 5 stars. My only
complaint is that they don’t offer English translations.
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