Macau Science Center — Attraction in Sé

You can't help but be impressed with your visit to the Macau Science Centre which includes the five floor exhibition center (MOP50) area as well a planetarium which features 2D (MOP50) and 3D (MOP65) programs throughout the day. This is a great place for families, especially younger children, to spend time in Macau. There is much to experience (and try) at the Science Center, a place you can easily find yourself entertained for several hours.

What to see in the Exhibition Center: The exhibition area is a Five floor, spiral-shaped building with 14 different exhibition rooms, each filled with modern, interactive and entertaining exhibits capable of entertaining children and adults alike. We particularly enjoyed the Space Science Room (ground floor), the Children's Science Gallery (first floor) which both offered lots of hands on exhibits. We also liked the Meteorology Gallery (second floor) and Robotic Gallery (second floor). The Robotic Gallery was particularly impressive with some highly advanced exhibits for visitors to try. Loved the rubix cube robot and the robot that danced for you. The Sports Health and Sports Challenge Galleries (third floor) included fun measuring devices - for hand strength, eye hand coordination, body balancing abilities and other physically challenging exercise and game exhibits. There was even a small basketball court found here. These were the top rooms in our view but all rooms were enjoyable to enter and visit.

There are also two special exhibitions at the Science Center at present. On the ground floor there is an exhibition area highlighting Macau's urbanization, land reclamation and land expansion plans. Then on the first floor there is an exhibit featuring Macau's future LRT system which is presently in development and scheduled to become available in 2015. These are worth a peek for those interested in what Macau looks like today and what it might be like in the future.

Unfortunately, we didn't have time to visit the planetarium but the programs looked promising, child-friendly and entertaining, something worth trying in addition to visiting the excellent exhibition area.

How to enter the museum: There are two entrances you can choose from. First, there is the normal ground level entrance, from which you can work your way up the five floors of the exhibition center before reaching a nice viewing platform near the top. Here you can see the Macau Skyline before returning to the exhibition area, using the lift to return to the ground level to exit the exhibition center area.

Alternatively, from the ground floor you can go through a little cafe and take a long escalator immediately to the 5th floor viewing platform for the look at the Skyline. From there you can enter the exhibition area and simply work your way through the exhibition galleries in reverse. This is a good idea if you want to see the city views first.

Hint: There are free self-service locker facilities for visitors that can be found past the McDonalds next to a small children's playground area on the ground level.

Hint: Inside the Macau Science Center there is a McDonalds, a Cafe Corner (coffee and snacks) and even a small yoghurt shop for those who want a budget friendly meal while on site.

Overall, this is by far the best child and family friendly form of entertainment on offer in Macau. Even as curious adults, we quite enjoyed much of what we found at the Macau Science Museum. This is a modern, innovative and creatively designed attraction that the city of Macau should be proud of. It is well worth visiting...

Good for young children but lacking for older visitors. My wife and I felt that the centre could elaborate more with the open space- the evolution of dinosaurs is depicted with silhouettes and information going around the inside of thenbuilding up the internal ramp but stops. A little more imagination of what could follow next would not only help cover the stark white walls but continue an informative journey. Unfortunately, a lot of the interactive stations were broken or not in operation- disappointing because visitors numbers could peak over the summer holidays. It was sad to see that the 'green wall' was actually dead and empty and that one reference to nature was a 3D projection. It would be good to see this as a particular focal point of scientific centres being that the environment appears to be affected by human impact and global...

This is a children's science playground Museum

similar to the Exploratorium in San Francisco but a lot worse a lot of the exhibits do not work correctly they're worn out the explanations in English are minimal if you do not have a moderate understanding of science as most of the people I watched here do not they do not know how to interact with the exhibits coming from a science background this is a good idea but poorly executed but do not be confused this is not a science museum it's a children's science playground a cheap knockoff of the Exploratorium in San Francisco you're allowed to use your ticket once while the Exploratorium in San Francisco you have six months that you can keep returning to finish the exhibits there's over 7,000 exhibits in that...