This gallery is dedicated to children aged 3 to 6 years, plus their parents and carers. Here we will play together, learning to recognize shapes, sounds, and colours and engaging all of our senses. Fully safe experiments will show us how fascinating our world really is. Here are just some of the kinds of fun in store:

Visualisations of the Kids Zone:



The entranceway into the gallery is a colourful gateway shaped like an organic tissue. While waiting our turn, we can play with virtual butterflies. We can encourage them to come land on our arms or head, or frighten and chase them away. "As soon as I stop moving they land on me! But they are shy and fly away whenever I move! Oh now it’s our turn, let's go in!"





Within a bright interior concealed inside a hillock, a set of ropes are hanging. Playing alone or in groups, we pull on the ropes to hear the sounds of a meadow. Nearby we can investigate some moving cylinders mounted on the wall. We can put balls of various types (colours, textures, weights, and shapes) into the cylinders and have fun watching them drop. "What funny-looking balls! Which one will drop first? Which one will roll the fastest?"




We can next enjoy touching different materials: metal, wood, horsehair, stone. But can we find two of the same textures? A set of flexible pipes carry in different smells of the forest. "What smell is that? Raspberries? Or maybe wild mushrooms?!" We learn to recognize the songs of birds, and then enjoy racing virtual ladybirds. Our insect moves upward when we talk into the microphones loudly, but a whisper will bring it downward. "Hey, let's get the ladybirds to move up!"



We observe droplets of water dripping on special tiles – on one an icicle forms, while on another the droplets vaporize immediately. Behind a large glass plate is a shiny liquid of rippling colours with different-shaped objects inside it, which we can move using magnetic grips. "What beautiful whirls appear behind this object! But completely different ones go swirling around after this shape, why?" Up on the hillock we jump around bushes of different textures and imagine we are crossing the rapid current of a river. We can observe the underwater world through a periscope.





Entering a triangular tunnel, we find ourselves part of a kaleidoscope. Our countless silhouettes are reflected in its mirrored walls. "Wow, that really makes your head spin! Which way is up and which way is down?" Then we work our sense of balance by leading coloured balls through a maze inside a wobbly platform. No easy task, even for our parents!



Buzzz!, designed by contest-winners Karolina Perrin and Łukasz Wesołowski from Krakow, will be opened in the half of 2010, when the first module of the Centre building is launched (also including the On the Move, Man and the Environment, LightZone, and Roots of Civilization galleries).