Saila Puranen/Heureka
Heureka Classics features a selection of all-time favourites
The Heureka Classics exhibition features a selection of the most loved, eye-opening experiences which have been on display earlier at Heureka as well as gems from other science centres around the world, which are making their debut at Heureka for this exhibition. All of the exhibits have been updated to be current for today’s guests.
The exhibition showcases different physical phenomena, which can be tested using one’s entire body (such as the Flying carpet, Hydrogen rocket, and Car lift). The exhibits are also intended to turn the attention back onto the observer, showing how our brain and senses work together to create amazing phenomena inside our heads.
Heureka Classics will be on display for visitors for at least the next two years. To better serve Heureka’s foreign visitors, the exhibition texts have been translated into Estonian and Russian in addition to our normal range of languages (Finnish, Swedish and English).
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Exhibits about physics
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Illusions
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- Too much air
- Spinning table
- Without air
- Bowling ball cannon
- For whom the bell tolls
- Parabolic mirrors
- Flying carpet
- Blasting barrels
- Car lift
- Super balls
- Black hole
- Rattleback
- Up the slope
- Hydrogen rocket
- Straight through the curve
- Racetrack
- Small ball cannon
- Racing wheels
- The floating ball
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- Thaumatrope
- Zoetrope
- Magic wand
- Indistinguishables
- Freezing burn
- A shade of difference
- Nipkow disk
- Which is heavier?
- Spinning head
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This year, Heureka celebrates its 20th anniversary. There are currently 2,400 science centres around the world. In 1989, when Heureka first opened its doors, the number was only 240. Within this young and rapidly growing field, Heureka belongs to the group of experienced pioneers.
While Heureka Classics pays homage to the science centre’s first 20 years, it also celebrates 40 years of worldwide science centre activities. In 1969, two the most important trail-blazers were founded:
Exploratorium in San Francisco, USA and the
Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Canada.
In accordance with the idea of physicist Frank Oppenheimer (1912–85), Exploratorium was designed to be a “museum of science, art and human perception”. In the spirit of Oppenheimer’s original idea, Heureka Classics presents visitors with illusionary exhibits involving physics and perceptual psychology.
