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Autumn Holiday: Science and Other Stellar Experiences
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20.10.2024
Autumn Holiday: Science and Other Stellar Experiences
Autumn Break is filled with curiosity at Christian IV’s Historic Observatory Tower. Dive into creative planet workshops for kids, experience the magic of the Observatory at the top of the tower, and explore the science exhibition “From Science to Society.”
Planet Workshops for Kids
October 14th–18th, 10-16
Color the planets and create your own Solar System when the Round Tower invites you to join creative drop-in workshops for children and adults. Try your hand at scissors, glue, cotton balls, and beautiful wax crayons that can be blended with water to create colorful planets.
The Round Tower provides tools and drawing kits but you get to decide the look and design of the celestial bodies.
The workshop is open to everyone with a regular entrance ticket, but there are limited spots available.
Astro Evenings for Families
October 14th & 17th, 18-21
Join us when we open the Observatory exclusively for children and their adults and adjust the telescope to see Saturn or the Moon if the weather permits. During the evening you can also make planets in our open planet workshop in the Reading Room next to the Library Hall or solve fun astronaut challenges in the Spiral Ramp.
Remember to dress warmly for the Observatory!
Registration is required for Astro Evenings.
Exhibition: From Science to Society
Every day until October 20th
Learn more about both famous and unknown scientists together in the Round Tower’s Library Hall, where you can currently explore the exhibition “From Science to Society,” presented in collaboration with the Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science (SNU).
From Monday to Thursday in week during Autumn Break, there will be “Mirror Image Days” in the exhibition, where you can delve into the chemistry behind life’s twists and turns! The building blocks of nature exist as mirror images – something called ‘chirality’. You may have never heard of it before, but once you become aware of chirality, you’ll see it everywhere: your hands, your shoes, you name it – even the Round Tower is chiral!
At the experiment tables in the exhibition, you will be able to smell and taste mirror image molecules and learn more about chirality. Build the organic molecules you taste and discover why they are called ‘mirror image forms’.