he Science Museum The city of Valencia celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary this Thursday, just as it marked a quarter of a century since its opening, with an event featuring a symphony orchestra of fifty musicians and a choir of eighty voices. … A musical performance about the history of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Deep Field: The Impossible Size of Our Universe, directed by American composer Eric Whitacrem, was the main focus of the institutional event – held on the museum’s Calle Mayor – with which the space celebrated its anniversary. Later, a video mapping technology demonstration combining water, music and lights was held on the outdoor lake.
Regional Secretary for Institutional Relations and Transparency and President of the City of Arts and Sciences, Santiago Lumbreras, highlighted the museum as a “meeting place for science” and stressed that they are in the process of finalizing the project. “Deep renewal” of contents This is compatible with new technologies.
Likewise, he highlighted the construction of a geothermal power plant that would allow the entire complex, which receives more than four million people annually and creates nearly 6,000 jobs, to be more efficient.
Susana Camarero, acting state vice president, said the Science Museum “has been a pioneer in interactive publishing, in access to knowledge and in creating scientific careers among our youth.” “I was born with the conviction that science does not belong only to laboratories, but to people,” he stressed.
In the same vein, the Mayor of Valencia, Maria José Catala, praised the design implemented by architect Santiago Calatrava in what she described as “City Icon” and “Science Giant”.
Under the slogan “We celebrate the future”, the space carried out special activities and opened two new exhibitions: “Leonardo”. 500 years of genius and transformation. The Science Museum opened its doors to the public on 13 November 2000. During these 25 years, it has welcomed more than 16 million visitors – including two million schoolchildren – and hosted more than 340 exhibitions and 2,500 free activities, such as astronomical observations, conferences or music sessions.
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