Questacon description and photos - Australia: Canberra (Topic)

Questacon description and photos - Australia: Canberra. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Questacon.

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Questacon is Australia's national science and technology center, located on the southern shore of Lake Burleigh Griffin in Canberra. This is a huge center, which houses over two hundred interactive exhibits dedicated to science and technology. Up to half a million people visit it a year.

Questacon was opened on November 23, 1988 on the initiative of physicist Mike Gore, professor at the National University of Australia. He became the founding director of the Center. And the building in which Questacon is located is a gift from the Japanese government on the 200th anniversary of the founding of Australia.

Inside, the Center is divided into 7 galleries, each of which is dedicated to a specific topic. For example, "Tyrannosaurs" is perhaps the most popular exhibition introducing the history of prehistoric dinosaurs. Or “MiniQ” - an exhibition created for children from birth to 6 years old, all the exhibits of which you can touch, smell and taste. Free Fall is a giant slide 6.7 meters high. "Miracle" talks about the effect of the northern lights, holograms and Fresnel lenses. And "Fantastic Earth" traces the history of natural disasters and geological changes in the development of our planet.

The Center also has a number of venues used for various presentations, including performances by the Questacon theater troupe "Excited Particle", which arranges puppet shows for children.

In addition to the exhibition grounds in Canberra, Questacon conducts many outreach programs to work with the Australian population. For example, the Shell Questacon Science Circus program is the world's largest program of its kind, with 100,000 participants annually. As part of this program, Questacon employees travel about 25,000 km across the country, visiting remote cities and indigenous communities, conducting training courses for teachers, as well as speaking in hospitals, schools and nursing homes. 

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