Roots of Civilization

In this part of our exhibition we’ll take our guests for a tour  to the roots of civilization. What made our world look as it looks today? Did history have a chance to go other way? How may our world look like in five hundred years? It will be a tour in time as well as in space. Interactive devices will make you feel the atmosphere of the ancient times. You will be able to (among others):

  • light fire without matches,
  • feel like a Phoenician sailor,
  • run an analogue of our deck computer, as it was on a ship of ancient Greeks,
  • make yourself a sheet of paper and then write down on it your own name in hieroglyphs,
  • steer a gravitation-powered machine,
  • discover, what do shells and credit cards have in common,
  • calculate, how many earths would we need for everybody to live in an apartment of an average Warsaw dweller,
  • connect with guests of scientific centres around the world and talk with them,
  • see, what do mathematical equations and rose windows in gothic cathedrals have in common.