Interactive exhibition “Energy, Sky and Sun”

The interactive exhibition is not only fun, it also – or perhaps primarily – means education. Each stand is accompanied by extensive instructions and explanations describing how the experiment should be performed. Competent staff provide help to visitors.

The educational purpose of the interactive exhibition is emphasized by the activities organized for students from primary, junior, secondary schools and adults. These activities combine theoretical knowledge, provided by the host in the form of multimedia presentations, with experiments carried out at individual stands, whose subjects are related to the content of the presentation. The topic of the “Energy, Sky and Sun” exhibition offers an opportunity to organize educational classes grouped into more than ten didactic paths, with varying degrees of difficulty and are addressed to various age groups and school profiles.

To best reflect the combination of fun and learning, the term “edutainment” was coined in education centres in the Western world to describe this type of show. Created as a combination of two words: “education” and “entertainment”, the term clearly points to the harmony between learning and entertainment, study and fun. In education centres such as the Hewelianum Centre, knowledge is acquired as if incidentally, while everyone enjoys themselves. Thanks to this, the number of visitors to the Hewelianum Centre remains at a consistently high level, and the prevailing opinion among those leaving the exhibition is that physics or astronomy are neither difficult nor boring.