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The Graz’ Children’s Museum FRida & freD and the Natural History Museum of Universalmuseum Joanneum have jointly created the CoSA – Center of Science Activities, a science centre that stands for easily accessible, interactive and entertaining education for teenagers, on technology and science. Over almost 1,000 sq. metres on the first floor of the Natural History Museum in the Joanneum Quarter, the focus is on participation.

The Science Center CoSA is thus a key building block for the future-oriented factors of research, innovation and technology in Styria, reinforcing the province as a business location for the long term.

 

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The CoSA has 13 spaces where children and young people can experience technical and scientific relationships and phenomena in a carefree way. 

You can download images of each of the spaces here.

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About the CoSA – Center of Science Activities

After a four-year planning period, the Frida & freD - Das Grazer Kindermuseum and the Universalmuseum Joanneum have created jointly the CoSA – Center of Science Activities at Natural History Museum. The CoSA is a science center, in which technology and the natural sciences can be experienced in an extraordinary way. The target group for visitors is primarily youngsters from 12 years of age. The Science Center is being installed on nearly 1200 m² and 12 rooms on the first floor of the Natural History Museum in the Joanneum Quarter. 13 specially designed thematic areas enable science and technology to be experienced directly by visitors. In Graz for the first time, and uniquely throughout the world, knowledge can be experienced on 250 m² of space by means of Augmented Reality and Gamification. This model project is sponsored by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung.

The idea

The Science Center CoSA stands for an easily accessible, interactive and entertaining passing on of knowledge. The goal is to enthuse young people above all for interaction with technology and the natural sciences. The center aims to succeed in tapping into youngsters’ daily lives, stimulating them to act and participate themselves. Science is to be communicated on a broad basis.

At CoSA, we ...

  • help people to overcome inhibitions of deal with complex scientific or technical topics.
  • make topics of science and technology accessible at different levels.
  • get people enthusiastic about science and technology.
  • make science and technology easy to comprehend.
  • motivate people to engage in science and technology with a lasting effect.
  • get people to think in a solution-oriented way and to act responsibly.
  • get visitors to think creatively and to think out of the box.
  • show the target audience how to reflect on issues and challenges.
  • raise awareness of key challenges of the future.
  • get people ready for the future.
  • get young people to opt for careers in science and technology