AndrewD
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Science Museums – EnergeticA, Amsterdam
Hi All,
There are a few of you that share my interest in science and natural history. Whenever I am travelling I try to visit local science museums. One of the most memorable was EnergeticA, the Energy Museum, in Amsterdam. Many of you will be aware of the better known NEMO museum but EnergeticA is a real old school science museum housed in an abandoned power station. You feel like you are entering Jules Verne’s imagination.
The sad news is that EnergeticA closed in late 2007. Many of the engines, power sources, gas lights and other displays have been ‘saved’ by NEMO, so hopefully they will be put back on display.
Hope you enjoy these images.
Do you have a favourite science museum?
Andrew
This message has been edited by DRMW on 2009-11-10 20:34:00 This message has been edited by DRMW on 2009-11-11 23:05:50
Science Museums – EnergeticA, Amsterdam
Hi All, There are a few of you that share my interest in science and natural history. Whenever I am travelling I try to visit local science museums. One of the most memorable was EnergeticA, the Energy Museum, in Amsterdam. Many of you will be aware of th...
Very interesting museum!
Looks like a very interesting laboratory. Haven't been to it yet, but there are some science museums in San Francisco; the California Academy of Sciences and the Exploratorium; both of which I've visited many years ago (before digital cameras existed). Am...
A lot to learn from that Museum.
Did everything move out to another location? Looks like it would be a fun tour. JerryW
What’s at NEMO?
I am hoping someone has visited NEMO recently and can report on what they have put in. NEMO was pretty tight for space already and there was a lot at EnergeticA; room after room of displays, as well as the ‘main’ chamber. A
MIT, 1965 . . .
. . . I still remember the NASA exhibit that featured a scale which gave your weight on the Earth and the Moon digitally, but using English rather than metric measure . . . cordially, Art
The last museum I went to was...
Hello Andrew! I haven't been to a science museum in a very long time, but as far as museums go I was recently at the Getty Center: -MW...
The last museum I visited was the LUCeum!
Here are some photos of some very early time-keeping devices......
yours very interesting, please see mine...
hi Andrew, mine was taken when had a working trip in Manila 2 years, it was out door, quite interesting also. stefan...
Interesting history ...
Thanks Stefan, I had no knowledge about this interesting man and his life and have just spent time reading about what he achieved in his short 35 years on this earth. This is the famous poem he wrote on the eve of his execution by firing squad: My Last Fa...
i also did not know this great man either...
thanks Andrew. you managed to dig out his last poem. stefan
Amazing poem …
We can never know how we will face death until it comes. I am constantly amazed, however, how ‘together’ most people are in the face of adversity. Can you imagine sitting down to write a poem on the eve of your execution for unjust reasons? A
That makes three of us, gents . . .
. . . and slightly embarrassing, because history has been a consuming interest since grade school . . . enlightened, Art
NEMO, Amsterdam
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Great Thread, Andrew.
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Two models ...
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The bottom three pictures ...
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