The laboratories

Can you play the galaxies? Can you listen to black holes? What kind of dance can you perform under the stars?

Tonight, you will be able to play the magnificent pictures of the Universe which you usually watch, and – why not? dance to the sound of nebulae and planets!

Recommended age: 6 to 99

Shows: 21:00, 22:00, 23:00 p.m.

Humankind has always tried to find familiars shapes in the stars, just like looking for shapes in the clouds. This is how constellations and all their related stories were born.

Tonight you will get to know beautiful Cassiopeia and her stories, so as to  discover that constellations, just lie many phenomena in the Universe, are not always as they appear.

Recommended age: 4 to 99

Shows: 20:30 - 21:30 - 22:30 p.m.

Galaxies and stars emit a kind of light that our eyes cannot see: i.e. radio waves. In this activity you will become radioastronomers: by using special instruments, capable of sensing radio waves, you are going to hunt stars and galaxies in a cosmic treasure hunt to discover the invisible!

Recommended age: 10 to 99

Shows: 16:00 - 17:00 - 18:00 - 19:00 p.m.

Stars are not all the same. Some of them are larger or hotter, more red or more blue, smaller or nearer. We invite you on a journey to discover the sky, where you will feel and touch … the stars!

Recommended age: 6 to 99

Shows: 16:00 - 17:00 - 18:00 - 19:00 p.m.

How different can the same galaxy appear to us when viewed by different instruments? Get ready for a “multisensory” journey in the thousand different shapes  a galaxy can take… and build your own la personal galaxy-pin!

Recommended age: 8 to 99

Shows: 16:00 - 17:00 - 18:00 - 19:00

An explorative workshop on smells and things that we cannot perceive with our senses. Starting from everyday odors and even sniffing a comet, you will discover that a few things exist even though we cannot perceive them. We can however study them by using special instruments and observing how these things affect their environment.

Recommended age : 6 to 99

Shows: 16:30 - 17:30 - 18:30 - 19:30 p.m.

The sky has always fascinated both adults and children. Come and listen to the most beautiful astronomical tales. This will be a journey through words and images, towards stars, planets, far-away galaxies and much more.

Recommended age: 0 to 99

Shows: 16:00 - 17:00 - 18:00 - 19:00 p.m.

There are billions of galaxies in our Universe, and each of them contains billions of stars. Are galaxies all the same? Will the stars inside them be all the same? Today you will act as astronomers, so as to discover how to measure the age of a galaxy: we will look inside them and will play with the stars, in order to understand why your grandparents are younger than the Milky Way.

Recommended age: 8 to 99

Shows: 16:30 - 17:30 - 18:30 - 19:30 p.m.

Have you ever wondered what our Galaxy is made of and how it formed? The answer may not be as simple as you think. Get ready for an intergalactic adventure: you will discover all the elementd composing our marvellous Milky Way!

Recommended age: 6 to 99

Shows: 16:30 - 17:30 - 18:30 - 19:30 p.m.

Are you ready to turn yourselves into foley artists and imagine the sounds of the celestial bodies? What kind of sound will we create for the stars? What about galaxies? Let us play and make up a sound map of the silent Universe!

A workshop created by Schermi e Lavagne [Screens and Blackboards], Dipartimento educativo della Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with INAF- National Institute for Astrophysics.

Recommende age: 6 to 99

Show: 17:30 p.m.