In the light
When you think of light, you may think primarily of visible light. But there is “invisible” light with both shorter and longer wavelengths than the visible light that we humans can see. Most insects can see ultraviolet light, and many snakes can “see” the heat of prey (infrared light). In this exhibition you can explore and play with visible light, but you can also explore Ultraviolet light (UV) and Infrared light (IR).
Central to the exhibition is the art project Invisible Exhibition. The installation is a work designed by Czech scenographer Jan Hustak. Invisible Exhibition shows technology that can make the invisible visible, but which can also blind us to other parts of reality. Invisible Exhibition's goal is to create a space where our sight is taken away from us. A dark room in terms of not seeing, but also that the room is metaphorically dark in terms of only seeing what you want to see. From the two control rooms on each outer wall, you can use night vision and thermal imaging cameras to find out what is happening inside the installation.
Installations you will find in the theme area Oslo Science Centre – In the Light are (subject to change):
- Arch mirror
- Spy mirror
- Split mirror
- Infinity Staircase
- The EM spectrum
- The Geiger counter
- The UV room
- The RGB space
- Monochromatic room
- Radio waves
- Color mixing
- Optical table
- Invisible Exhibition
Photo: Kathrine Daniloff / The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
Physical phenomena
Is it possible to hear someone whispering over a distance of 10 meters? How does an airplane wing actually work? How fast does sound travel in the air, and what is a gyroscope? The world is full of strange physical phenomena. At the Science Center, you can experiment and explore the mysteries of physics yourself!
See, among other things (subject to change):
- Sound projector
- Newton's Crib
- Water vortex
- A normal mirror?
- Bernouilli blower
- Fly
- Air cannon
- Wind tunnel
- Speed of sound
- Bubbles in liquid
In the blood
In this exhibition, you can explore the body and learn about basic topics in the field of body and health. The main experience is a journey through the blood. On the way through the bloodstream, you visit the organs: the heart, lungs, spleen, intestines, muscles and kidneys. You learn about the function of the organs and why blood is important for the body. On the way into the installation, you pick up a red blood cell. It serves as a guide for the rest of the journey. At the end of the tour, you hand over the blood cell and you can take a picture of yourself, a cellfy, which turns into a small blood cell, which flows out into the large blood stream of everyone who has visited the exhibition.
Blood flows through the body, and by following the blood you can learn about the function of the various organs, but also about the cup in general. How does the brain work and what are our senses? You can, among other things, test your reaction time and see your own pulse.
Installations you can find in the Thematic Area In the Blood:
See, among other things (subject to change):
- The organs of the body
- Explore the eye
- Responsiveness
- Mindball
- The lungs
- The Muscle Man
- Organdam
- Heart model
- Body sounds
- Look into the body, the touch table
- Blood bank, chair
Full speed
Her kan du oppleve fart og leke deg til kunnskap om krefter og hastighet. Her kan du blant annet utforske flere av Newtons lover via kappkjøring med racerbiler eller trille trekuler i bane, du kan føle sentripetalkraften på kroppen, og få en spenstig fartsopplevelse på en kul motorsykkel.
Som fysisk fenomen er hastighet det samme som strekning over tid, men fart er også spennende, farlig, eller koplet til reiser. Hvordan får vi fart? Hvilke krefter virker? Slike spørsmål åpner for aktivitet, undring og lekende læring innenfor temaet Full fart.
See, among other things (subject to change):
- Electric motor
- Motorcycle
- Newton's Cradle
- Ball track, acceleration
- Car race
- Speed of sound
- Pirouette
- Gearwheel
- The racetrack
- Lift yourself - hoists
- Magnetic fluid
- Steam machine
- Bubbles in liquids
Photo: Lars Opstad / The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
The body
Learn about the body's machinery! In the Science Center's exhibition The Body, you can try out how the body's internal organs, senses, and brain work! You can, among other things, test your reaction time, see your own pulse, and find out how you can easily trick your sense of temperature.
Kroppens minste bestanddeler
Medisinsk museum holder den andre delen av utstillingen, som holder til vegg-i-vegg: Usynlig verden. Se kroppens mikrounivers! De unike fremstillingene er laget ved hjelp av det aller siste innen visualiseringsteknologi. Utforsk bilder og film tatt ved hjelp av lysmikroskopi, elektronstråler og røntgen. Se hvordan teknologi sammen med menneskelig kompetanse gjør det mulig å få innblikk inn i en fantastisk verden som tidligere var usynlig!
Fantastiske fakta om hjertet:
I løpet av et normalt liv passerer 275.000 kubikkmeter blod igjennom hjertet!
Each heartbeat performs the same amount of work as is required to lift 1 dl of blood 1.2 meters into the air.
The heart beats 100,000 times in a day. There will be more than 2,700,000,000 heartbeats during a normal life - without external maintenance!
Photo: Lars Opstad / The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
On TV
When the wavelengths become long enough, we can use them to transmit radio and TV signals. In this exhibition you can find out how to make animated films, or you can play with TV technology that makes you part of the TV picture.
See, among other things (subject to change):
- On TV
- Green screen
- Stop Motion
- Zoo tropic
Mathematics
In the Math theme area, the youngest children can climb and play in the Counting Ladder Step by Step, while they count and explore math around us in space, signs and figures. Test out Pythagoras' theorem, discover patterns in the multiplication table, sharpen their minds on problem solving and traffic chaos, or enjoy, read and learn about great mathematicians from both the past and the future.
See, among other things (subject to change):
Small times table • Pieces of cake • The cubic meter • Closest to zero • Step by step, counting stairs • Pythagoras • Traffic chaos • Out and fly • Snake pendulum • Tangram • Fractions • Spinning disk • Binary numbers
The science scene
The science stage is a newly built stage, and will function as an arena for smaller science shows and school education. The science stage has seating for around 50 students, but can be expanded by making one part of the arena mobile.
