Konya Science Center — Attraction in Selçuklu

I went to the Science Center a few weeks ago and it was actually pretty nice. It is really big and the exhibitions show a lot of things. In each exhibition there are a lot of statues, screens where you can watch short films on the topic of the exhibition and games you can try out yourself. For example you can try to pump up a healthy and a sick lung in the "Our Body" exhibition. The exhibitions are well put together and I really enjoyed them. However there a few downsides. A lot of stuff was broken. For example in the exhibitions on the upper level, there were often games where you had to rebuild stuff, but the pieces for building were gone. In another one the soap was empty (You could stand on a rack and pull on a string and would be enveloped in a soap bubble. If there was enough soap). On a "try to pull yourself up" thing, the strings were tangled, stuck or broken. Moreover was a lot of stuff not cleaned properly. The screens had fingerprints and smears. In the optical illusions section the glass where you had to look through was dirty. Also keep in mind that the planetarium is not really a planetarium as you expect it. They show you a film about space and other stuff. But even though everything in the science center is translated into English, the film in the planetarium isn't. Last but not least, the entrance is pretty cool. There is a computer where you can draw on and it will project your drawing onto a wall. Pretty nice even though its a bit hard to draw on. Also the surroundings of the science center look nice! A lot of trees and bushes that are well taken care of. So even though this sounds a bit negative I still recommend going there. It is worth a visit. But take your time, because there is a lot to read through...

As someone who once visited the Sharjah Science Museum in the UAE, this place is very big, much better and had lots of partitions where you could explore many things. Everything was open to explore and rarely you could find something that didn't work. The building and the equipment were all new and they even got a robot exhibition on the 2nd. Floor where they got a robot that imitates what you do. The personnel were very nice, smiled a lot and loved to help wherever possible. They also spoke english which was great. It was a pleasure going there with the family and I would recommend it to everyone and to children...

Bilim merkezleri, farklı yaş gruplarından ve farklı birikime sahip bireyleri bilimle buluşturarak, bilim ve teknolojiyi toplum için anlaşılır ve ulaşılır bir hale getirmeyi ve bilim ve teknolojinin önemini toplum gözünde artırmayı amaçlayan; deneysel ve uygulamalı etkinlikler içeren, ziyaretçilerini denemeye ve keşfetmeye teşvik eden; kamu yararı gözeten, kar elde etmek amacıyla kurulmayan, kamu ya da özel sektör kaynakları ile finanse edilen merkezlerdir.

Sessiz ortamlarda, cam vitrinlerin ardında sergilenen, dokunulması yasak objelerden oluşan klasik müze kavramının aksine bilim merkezleri ziyaretçilere aktif şekilde gezebilecekleri, dokunabilecekleri, deneyebilecekleri sergiler ve dinamik ortamlar sunmaktadır.

Bilim merkezleri, günlük olaylara bilimsel bir bakış açısıyla yaklaşabilme yönünde bir ufuk açmaktadır. Herkesin yaratıcı düşünebileceğini ve yaratıcı düşünme becerilerini geliştirebileceğini göstermektedir. Özellikle küçük yaştaki ziyaretçilerin kendi başlarına karar verebilen ve sorumluluk sahibi bireyler olmalarına katkı sağlamaktadır.

Bilim merkezleri, sadece içerikleriyle değil, mimarileriyle, yeşil alanları ve kullanım amaçlarının çeşitliliğiyle de cazibe merkezi olma özelliği taşımaktadırlar. Geniş giriş ve bekleme salonları, yüksek tavanlarıyla, ziyaretçilere rahat bir ortam sunmaktadırlar. Henüz bilim merkezinin içerisine girmeden ziyaretçileri karşılayan etkileşimli açık hava sergileri, onları bilimin gizemli dünyasına davet eder.

TÜBİTAK, bilim merkezlerinin toplumumuzda bilim kültürünü yaygınlaştırmak için son derece kritik bir rol üstleneceği öngörüsünden yola çıkarak, ülkemizde bu merkezlerin kurulmasını ve yıllar içinde sayılarının artırılmasını...