The message

The ExploHeidelberg is an interactive centre with scientific education where children, adults, teachers and scientists can experience basic scientific phenomena in a new playful way.
Schools, research locations and business are working together hand in hand at this institution to make science understandable, exciting and challenging, in order to effectively strengthen the spirit of innovation, research and development.
The ExploHeidelberg uses its bonds at building bridges within Heidelberg by using existing networks and developing new ones.

The location

Heidelberg and the Rhine-Neckar region is a worldwide renowned centre for science, research and technical innovation.
There is a wide spread range of facilities for science (University of Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Centre, European Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Max-Planck-Institutes, University of Education, and others).
Big, well-known companies develop new technologies (Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Henkel Teroson GmbH, SAP Deutschland AG und Co. KG, SAS Institute ...).

The idea

The idea of the ExploHeidelberg aims at creatively convey scientific phenomena and knowledge in a way that can be understood imediatly. To this end, and supported by learning programmes, it uses a scientific exhibition, a media laboratory and a learning laboratory with interactive exhibits and experiments.
The location almost perfectly connects science, business and schools: the Technology Park Heidelberg in the Neuenheimer Feld, near the campus of the University of Heidelberg with all its facilities and the German Cancer Research Centre.

The realisation

The ExploHeidelberg has three fields of activity:

All together ExploHeidelberg is an interactive exhibition with changing topics and exhibits, a media laboratory with 24 workstations for pupils, a learning laboratory with 16 workstations for both younger and older children and a shop.