Historico de noticias

• 26/12/08

  Valencia Open 500 to be held in the Ágora of the City of Arts and Sciences from 2nd to 8th November

  
  
• 13/12/08

  Special events at the City of Arts and Sciences over the Christmas Period

  
  • New activities based upon the “Marvel Super Heroes” exhibition and other exciting events too. In the Science Museum from 20th December to 11 January.
  • "Your gift" card that can be exchanged for admission to the complex - an original present for family and friends.
  • The first ever Christmastime School at the Oceanográfico (aquarium).
  

  
  
• 10/12/08

  "The Nobel Prize: Olympus of the Scientists" presents the history of the awards and their winners

   

  The third title in the collection 'Museum and Science', produced by the City of Arts and Sciences

  
  
• 9/11/08

  The pop group Franz Ferdinand kicks off its Spanish tour in the second run of MTV Winter in the City of Arts and Sciences

  
  • On 24th February the Scottish band will be presenting its latest tracks in this free concert.
  • Press coverage of the first MTV Winter had an economic impact estimated at 2.7 million euros.
  

  
  
• 3/12/08

  Presentation of the "Marine Sensations" project for disabled children

  
  
• 27/11/08

  The Oceanográfico (aquarium) sets up the competition: "Draw your favourite animal"

  The Oceanográfico has set up the “Draw your favourite animal” competition, in which children will have the chance to draw their favorite animal out of all the species to be found in the City of Arts and Sciences’ aquarium.

  
  
• 26/11/08

  Oceanográfico to host the "Amphorae from the Sea" exhibition

   

  The City of Arts and Sciences’ aquarium, the Oceanográfico, will, until 28th February, be hosting an exhibition consisting of more than one hundred reproductions of amphorae of various sizes. These exhibits represent the trading spirit of ancient Mediterranean cultures, in that the Romans, Greeks and Phoenicians sold oil, wines, fruit and other packaged products in these containers.

  
  
• 21/11/08

  Campaign "One toy, One dream"

  
  
• 17/11/08

  The Science Museum brings together experts from the whole world in rare diseases

  
  
• 16/11/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences is hosting the annual meeting of the directors of European science centres

  
  • Those attending belong to ECSITE, the main European organisation for spreading knowledge of science and technology that brings together some 400 institutions
  

  
  
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  Group of 70 children take part in a meeting on marine biodiversity at the Oceanográfico (aquarium)

   

  “The Living Sea: Biodiversity Week” continues this weekend with music and dance performances inspired by the sea.

  
  
• 11/11/08

  Inauguration of the 1st World Marine Biodiversity Conference at the Oceanográfico (aquarium)

  The Oceanográfico aquarium of the City of Arts and Sciences is, from today, hosting the 1st World Marine Biodiversity Conference, which is bringing together, until next Saturday, more than five hundred researchers from 45 countries with the aim of exchanging knowledge, strategies and action plans on marine biodiversity and the management of its ecosystems throughout the world.

  
  
• 11/11/08

  CAC participates in the Campaign "One toy, one dream"

  
  
• 07/11/08

  The President of the Valencia Regional Government visits the Ágora

  • The Vice-president for Economic Affairs announced that the l’Assut de l’Or bridge would open during the first fortnight of December
  • Not only are we talking about a state-of-the-art symbol of modernity, but also about a symbol of wealth and job creation
  

  
  
• 6/11/08

  The Valencia Community Region celebrates a new edition of Science Week

  
  • Open days, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and scientific film cycles will be held mainly from 10th to 23rd November.
  • The City of Arts and Sciences Foundation is directing this activity in the Region.
  
  

  
  
• 4/11/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences celebrates the 1st International Conference on Marine Biodiversity with a wide range of activities

  
  
  • Exhibitions, a special cycle of IMAX films, music and dance performances, among other proposals on offer regarding the sea, will be taking place during “Mar Vivo” (“Living Sea”): Biodiversity Week”
  • The impact of climate change on polar ecosystems, deep sea exploration and new discoveries of species – these are a few of the matters that will be dealt with during the scientific meeting
  

  
  
• 3/11/08

  Two new common seals are born at the Oceanográfico of the City of Arts and Sciences

  
  
• 30-10-08

  The Science Museum emphasises the importance of healthy hearing through the interactive display "Unheard of. The Adventure of Hearing"

  The exhibition is being promoted by GAES and can be visited until 22nd March 2009

  
  
• 28/10/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences participates in the International Year of Astronomy 2009

   

  The City of Arts and Sciences is participating in the International Year of Astronomy (IYA-2009), an initiative from the International Astronomy Union (IAU) sponsored by UNESCO and the UN, with representatives in over 100 countries.

  
  
• 20/10/2008

  The "Oceanográfico Tuesdays" conference series dedicates its fifth edition to the deep sea

  • Researchers from Spain and abroad will be showing those present the latest data about the abyss bottoms, at under 1,000 metres below the ocean’s surface.

  
  
• 24-10-08

  The Oceanográfico (aquarium) is organising courses on marine biology, sharks, turtles and sea mammals for the fifth consecutive year

  • Over 500 students have participated in the four previous editions

  
  
• 16/10/08

  FGV users have a 10% discount on admission to the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum until 1st November

  Metrovalencia and the City of Arts and Sciences extend their collaboration

  • Xàtiva station has been decorated with panels showing the main characters of the “Marvel Superheroes” exhibition
  • Spiderman informs travellers at the entrance and on the platforms of the offer available
  

  
  
• 14/10/08

  A total of 35 children today participated in "Little Ones' Astronomy"

  
  
• 16/10/08

  The Oceanográfico (aquarium) participates in the 2nd European Shark Week

   

  The City of Arts and Sciences’ Oceanográfico (aquarium) is again participating this year in European Shark Week. This initiative is held in different European zoos and aquariums in order to report on the significant decrease in European shark populations and the main threats they face.

  
  
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  The City of Arts and Sciences is to offer "Birthday+Fun" for the little ones

   

  Children can celebrate their birthday in the Science Museum or the Hemisfèric (IMAX and full dome)

  
  
• 02/10/2008

  The City of Arts and Sciences receives certification of its Information Security Management System

   
  

  
  
• 01/10/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences holds the First World Conference on Marine Biodiversity

   

  
  • From 11th to 15th November, over 500 scientists will be going over the situation of the planet’s marine species.
  • Exhibitions, a special cycle of IMAX films, music and dance performances, and other activities based on the sea will be held throughout “The Live Sea: Biodiversity Week”.
  

  
  
• 30/09/2008

  The Hemisfèric (Imax and full dome) resumes its autumn programme with the IMAX film "Dinosaurs Alive!"

  • This production recreates, through spectacular images, the life of these animals and shows new species of dinosaurs discovered by palaeontologists

  
  
• 23/09/08

  The Oceanográfico (aquarium)'s veterinarians, "The Farm" ("La Granja") and the Mediterranean Endoscopy Institute (Instituto Mediterráneo de Endoscopia) operate on two marine turtles with floatability problems

   

  A team of veterinarians, made up of specialists both in marine turtles and in the most advanced minimally invasive surgical techniques, today operated on two caretta caretta turtles with floatability problems in the Mediterranean Endoscopy Institute in Castellón.

  
  
• 18/09/08

  The Hemisfèric (IMAX & full dome) presents the IMAX film "Dinosaurs Alive!"

   

  “Dinosaurs Alive!” is the new IMAX adventure of science and discovery provided by the City of Arts and Sciences’ Hemisfèric from 1st October and in which the audience will get to know the first “life size” dinosaurs of the Triassic Period, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous.

  
  
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  The City of Arts and Sciences receives the "Premio Pilota Valenciana"

   

   

  
  
• 17/09/08

  El Museo de las Ciencias ofrece mañana una charla y una observación de la Luna

  
  
• 04/09/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences receives nearly 1.4 million visitors over the summer months

  The City of Arts and Sciences received nearly 1.4 million visitors over the summer months. More specifically, in June, July and August over 715,000 people visited the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, nearly 175,000 people made up the audience for the Hemisfèric (IMAX and full dome) and its projections, and around 500,000 visitors walked around the facilities of the Oceanográfico (Aquarium).

   

  
  
• 27/08/08

  Three seal lions and over forty birds are born at the Oceanográfico of the City of Arts and Sciences

  The Oceanográfico of the City of Arts and Sciences (Aquarium) now has three new specimens of sea lions at its facilities, two males and a female weighing some 12 kilos. The pups have developed very fast and were already in the water the day after they were born.

   

  
  
• 15/08/08

  The science of the Superheroes, Oceanográfico Nights, and the IMAX film "Deep Sea", summer suggestions in the City of Arts and Sciences

  The new IMAX film “Deep Sea” in the Hemisfèric (IMAX and full dome), the big exhibition “Marvel Superheroes” in the Science Museum, and the night time shows in the Oceanographic’s Dolphinarium are just some of the activities provided by the City of Arts and Sciences for this summer 2008.

   

  
  
• 13/08/08

  The Hemisfèric holds the last show of the summer edition of "Las Nocturnas" ("Nocturnal shows")

  The planetarium’s "Las Nocturnas" sessions are offering the last of the summer nights’ projection shows tomorrow 14th August at 22:30. The visitors who have come to the Hemisfèric these days have enjoyed the recreation of the firmament which is shown on the dome of the City of Arts and Sciences’ complex.

   

  
  
• 08/08/08

  G. Camps: "The Ágora puts the icing on the cake for the City of Arts and Sciences, a unique complex in the world"

  The deputy vice-president, regional minister for Economy, the Treasury and Employment, and the president of CACSA’s Administration Board, Gerardo Camps, today stated that “the Ágora puts the icing on the cake for the City of Arts and Sciences, a unique complex in the world".

   

  
  
• 05/08/08

  Villanueva: "The City of arts and Sciences is exemplary of the change undergone in the Autonomous Community Region"

  Presentation of the report drawn up by the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (IVIE, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas) on the economic effects of the City of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

  • CAC (City of Arts and Sciences) had an income of 40.5 million euros in 2007, which is 7.9 million more than in 2006.
  • Last year, over 4.2 million people visited the City of Arts and Sciences – 11,718 daily.
  • CAC generated 204 million euros in tourist spending
  

  
  
• 30/07/08

  Superheroes, nights in the Oceanografico (Aquarium) and "Deep Sea", unique proposals for this summer

  
  
• 23/07/2008

  The Oceanográfico discovers new aspects of communication in beluga whales that will help their conservation

  • For the first time different sounds and how they are used in the communication of this species have been described.
  • With these results the Oceanográfico (Aquarium) is taking part in projects in Norway, Alaska, and Russia that will study the distribution of the species with a view to its conservation
  

  
  
• 15/07/08

  The "Water" exhibition displays over 75 large-format photographs at the Oceanográfico

  The General Manager of Project Coordination, José Luis Villanueva, today pointed out that visitors to the Oceanográfico (Aquarium) will be able to see the “unique and powerful” images of the “Water” exhibition throughout July and August “thanks to the parternship with the Lunwerg publishing house and Fundación Axa, whom I would like to thank for choosing the Oceanográfico at the City of Arts and Sciences as the venue for this exhibition, which brings together the world’s best photographs on the theme of water”.

   

  
  
• 10/07/08

  The Australian Pink Floyd Show, Orishas, Javier Limón, shows and street theatre in Eclèctic 2008

  During today’s presentation of the seventh edition of the Eclèctic Festival, the City of Arts and Sciences’ general director, Jorge Vela, stated that “we are again making a commitment to quality for free in an event with a programme that offers various artistic proposals for all kinds of audiences”.

   

  
  
• 08/07/08

  The "Oceanográfico Nights" synchronised swimming team´s swimmers rehearse with the dolphins

  
  
• 04/07/08

  Manuel Toharia participates on the jury for the 2008 Prismas Awards for publicising educational information

  
  
• 01/07/08

  Marvel Superheroes teach science and technology at the Science Museum

  The “Marvel Superheroes” exhibition reveals the scientific principles behind the superpowers of Spiderman and The Hulk, among other characters.

   

  
  
• 27/06/08

  The children in the Oceanográfico´s Summer School sleep surrounded by sharks

  
  
• 27/06/08

  The Hemisferic presents the IMAX film "Deep Sea"

  As of next Tuesday 1st July, the City of Arts and Sciences will be offering the audience a fabulous adventure to submerge them into the sea: the IMAX film “Deep Sea", which will take them under the ocean’s surface.

  
  

  
  
• 23/06/08

  The Oceanográfico is beginning its Summer School

  
  
• 18/06/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences presents a wide-ranging programme for this Summer

  The new IMAX film “Profundidades Marinas” (Deep Sea) at the Hemisfèric, the major “Marvel Superheroes” exhibition at the Science Museum and the nocturnal exhibitions at the Oceanográfico’s Dolphinarium are just some of the events on offer at the City of Arts a Sciences this summer, 2008.

   

  
  
• 08/06/08

  The Oceanográfico celebrates World Ocean Day

  
  
• 02/06/08

  The Science Museum to hold a "Marvel Superheroes" exhibition this summer

  From July, the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum will be holding a new interactive exhibition, “Marvel Superheroes”, which invites visitors on a journey around various aspects of science and technology related to the world of the comic strip and the Marvel universe.

   

  
  
• 02/06/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences Foundation awards the 4th IDEA Prizes

  
  
• 30/05/08

  The Umbracle welcomes its millionth vehicle

  
  
• 30/05/08

  Researchers Maria Jesús Vicent, Santiago Ibáñez and Vicente Cambra, winners of the 4th Idea Prizes

  Maria Jesús Vicent Docón, Santiago Ibáñez Marsilla and Vicente Cambra Sánchez are the winners of the 4th Idea Prizes awarded by the City of Arts and Sciences Foundation in the categories of Basic Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.

   

   

  
  
• 27/05/08

  The Valencian Government renews its support for the "One toy, one dream" charity campaign

  The General Manager of Project Coordination, José Luis Villanueva, the Director of RNE (Spanish National Radio), Santiago González and the Chairman of the Fundación Crecer Jugando (“Grow Up Playing”), José Antonio Pastor, have signed a new partnership agreement to once again make the City of Arts and Sciences the sponsor of the 9th edition of the “One toy, one dream” charity campaign to kick off in November.

   

  
  
• 17/05/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences holds its second "Chocolate Week"

  From the 19th to the 25th of May, the City of Arts and Sciences is holding a “Chocolate Week”, when participants can find out more about this product, its varieties, history, recipes, nutritional properties and how it is traditionally made, through activities such as workshops, demonstrations and tastings.

   

  
  
• 14/05/08

  The Science Museum holds a Series of Activities on the quality of life

  The Príncipe Felipe Science Museum and the Valencian Biomechanics Institute (IBV) have organized the “Quality of Life” series of activities, a series of conferences and round tables that complement the “We care for your quality of life” exhibition, run by the IBV and housed in the Museum since last October.

   

  
  
• 11/05/08

  The Oceanográfico gives "Los Mares Dulces de Galicia" an award in the International Underwater Picture Festival

  The film “Los Mares Dulces de Galicia” (“Galicia’s Sweet Seas”) by the producer Manuel Enrique García Blanco won first prize in the full-length film category of the International Underwater Picture Festival, which is being held since last 7th May in the Oceanográfico (Aquarium) of the City of Arts and Sciences. In addition to its quality, the jury emphasised the originality and the combination of technique, filming, script and music.

   

  
  
• 10/05/08

  The Oceanográfico of the City of Arts and Sciences opens its Summer School for the fourth year

  Following the success of previous editions, the Oceanográfico (Aquarium) of the City of Arts and Sciences has organised its Summer School for the fourth year running. This initiative, which will be run next June and July, is aimed at children aged between 6 and 12 who have studied any Primary school’s academic year from September 2007 to June 2008.

   

  
  
• 06/05/08

  The Oceanográfico brings together the best experts in underwater video and photography

  The first International Underwater Picture Festival (FIIS) has two main aims: to improve society’s understanding of the sea and to support the work of photographers and producers who specialise in marine ecosystems. The event begins tomorrow in the Oceanográfico (aquarium), as of 19:30 in the Red Sea Auditorium.

   

  
  
• 04/05/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences receives 90,000 visitors over the 1st May holiday weekend

  The City of Arts and Sciences received 90,000 visitors over the 1st May long holiday weekend. More specifically, 45,409 people visited the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum over these days; 11,221 saw shows at the Hemisfèric (IMAX and Full Dome), and 34,301 people came to walk around the Oceanográfico (Aquarium)’s facilities.

   

  
  
• 30/04/08

  The Prìncipe Felipe Science Museum holds Caja Mediterráneo´s "100% Natural" exhibition

  
  
• 25/04/08

  Over 50 documentaries and 400 underwater photographs are to be displayed in the Oceanografico´s International Festival of Underwater Pictures

  Over 50 documentaries and 400 photographs taken in seas and oceans around the world can be seen in the Oceanografico of the City of Arts and Sciences in the first edition of the International Festival of Underwater Pictures (FIIS) that is to be held from 7th to 11th May.

  
  
• 17/04/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences, Turismo Valencia Convention Bureau and ESIC award schoolchildren an end-of-year trip to Valencia

  Sahagún Secondary School in León, with their project “Life is Beautiful”, has won the Destination Valencia Year 07/08 competition, organised by the City of Arts and Sciences, Turismo Valencia Convention Bureau (TVCB) and ESIC. The prize is an end-of-year trip to Valencia for 26 people, from the 25th to the 28th of April. It includes a guided tour of the old city centre and entry to the City of Arts and Sciences.

   

  
  
• 15/04/08

  Gerardo Camps points to the success and excellent trajectory of the Hemisfèric on it´s tenth anniversary

  The Valencian Vice-President for the Economy and Chairman of the Board of CACSA, Gerardo Camps, has highlighted the success of the Hemisfèric, “the City of Arts and Sciences’ first commitment to science and culture, whose excellent results in terms of spectator numbers, educational activities, functions and events encourage us to keep working with the same determination and enthusiasm to continue offering the public the best there is”.

   

  
  
• 14/04/08

  The Oceanográfico names the Oceans Tower, "Sylvia Earle" Tower in recognition of her education and conservation work in the field of marine environment

  The City of Arts and Sciences’ Oceanográfico has renamed the Oceans Tower, which represents a voyage around the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to the Bermudas, as the “Sylvia Earle” Tower, as a tribute to this underwater explorer and oceanographer in recognition of her important scientific and educational contribution.

   

  
  
• 12/04/08

  The CP Angelina Carnicer, winner of the schools´ "Marine Mini-League" final of the Oceanográfico

  The City of Arts and Sciences’ Oceanográfico has today hold the final of the “Marine Mini-League” , where the CP Angelina has been awarded inplace of the Salesianos San Juan Bosco school. Both centres have reached the final of this competition, organised for the second year running, in which 5th year primary pupils pit their wits on different marine ecosystems, their inhabitants and their conservation.

   

  
  
• 10/04/08

  The Science Museum´s "disABILITY" exhibition is to be dedicated to sensory disability until the coming 4th May

  
  
• 09/04/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences and Madrid Warner Park sign a collaboration agreement to establish joint promotional activities

  
  
• 04/04/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences participates in the 4th International Tourism Fair of Valencia

  
  
• 31/03/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences receives a total of 275,520 visitors over Fallas and Holy Week

  The City of Arts and Sciences welcomed a total of 275,520 visitors over Fallas and Holy Week, with 140,537 people visiting the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, 35,554 spectators watching films at the Hemisfèric and 99,429 people visiting the installations of the Oceanográfico.

   

  
  
• 27/03/08

  The "We look after of your quality of life" exhibition opens a unit that allows Valencian designers´ creations to be tried on

  The general director de Industry, Commerce and Innovation, Bruno Broseta, this morning presented the complete human body scanner and virtual fitting room of the “You are the measure of all things” attraction within the “We look after of your quality of life” exhibition in the City of Art and Sciences’ Prince Felipe Science Museum in Valencia.

   

  
  
• 25/03/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences´Oceanográfico aquarium begins it´s first Easter School

  
  
• 22/03/08

  The Oceanográfico is to hold the first International Underwater Image Festival

  The City of Arts and Sciences’ Oceanográfico aquarium will be holding the first International Underwater Image Festival (FIIS) from 7th to 11th May, where underwater films and photographs taken in the seas and oceans from all over the planet will be presented for competition.

   

  
  
• 16/03/08

  The Hemisfèric organises from 4th to 25th April a Film Festival to celebrate it´s tenth anniversary

  The City of Arts and Sciences’ Hemisfèric IMAX cinema is celebrating its tenth anniversary on 16th April. To do so it has organised a Film Festival to take place from 4th to 25th April, which will include the 8 best productions that have been shown over the ten years in which it has distinguished itself by offering films on different issues from the world of science and technology.

   

  
  
• 11/03/08

  Gerardo Camps praises the consolidation and success of the "One toy, one dream" campaign.

  The economics vice-president and president of the CACSA Board of Governors, Gerardo Camps emphasised the success of the “One toy, one dream” campaign, an initiative that, according to Gerardo Camps, “is now consolidated. An increasing number of children and countries are benefiting from its work and I am sure that, year after year, it will continue to break records in income and distribution of toys”.

   

  
  
• 06/03/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences brings together over 35,000 people for MTV Winter

  Last night the City of Arts and Sciences brought together over 35,000 people, many of whom entered the concert premises while others saw it on the screen in the Turia Garden. They were able to see performances by The Cure, HIM and From First to Last, all for free.

   

  
  
• 28/02/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences is preparing a wide range of measures to celebrate MTV Winter

  The Project Coordination general director, José Luis Villanueva, the City of Arts and Sciences’ general director, Jorge Vela, and MTV Networks’ Strategic Marketing and Communication director, Antonio de la Rosa, have today explained the details for the organisation of the MTV Winter concert to be held in the City of Arts and Sciences next Wednesday, 5th March.

   

  
  
• 28/02/08

  The Science Museum is to hold an international symposium on rare diseases

  One out of 3,000 people have some kind of disability due to a serious congenital neuromuscular disorder. Genes have now been identified that are associated with neuromuscular disorders, proving that there is a wide genetic range of diseases in the peripheral nervous system.

   

  
  
• 26/02/08

  More than 1,600 cetacea detected off the Valencia Region coastline

  More than 1,600 cetacea, among them dolphins, pilot whales, finback whales and sperm whales, have been detected off the coast of the Valencia Region over the 2003 to 2008 period, where there has been around 100 sightings in the 2,730 miles covered. These are the main findings of the cetacea detection study presented today by the General Manager for Environmental Management, Maria Angeles Centeno, the General Manager of the City of Arts and Sciences, Jorge Vela, and the Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Valencia, Esteban Morcillo.

   

  
  
• 21/02/08

  The "Woman. One body, one life" exhibition gives a multidisciplinary vision of the female universe

  To provide a multidisciplinary vision of the female universe is the main aim of the exhibition entitled “Woman. One body, one life”. This exhibition, which has been produced by the Santiago Dexeus Font Foundation and sponsored by Banco Santander and DANONE, will be on display on the third floor of the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum until 15th September.

   

  
  
• 20/02/08

  Gerardo Camps praises the high social and economic profitability of the Oceanográfico

  The Vice-President for the economy and President of the CACSA Board of Directors, Gerardo Camps, today praised “both the economic and social profitability that the Oceanográfico has achieved since it opened, five years ago”. After officially opening a photographic exhibition on the Oceanográfico, Gerardo Camps, presided over the commemorative ceremony in the Red Sea Auditorium, where the evolution of the largest aquarium in Europe was being discussed.

   

  
  
• 12/02/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences Club will allow unlimited admission to the entire complex or to selected buildings over one year

  The “City of Arts and Sciences Club” is a new offer aimed at those members of the general public who would like to have an annual pass for unlimited access to the complex. These passes will be available in different forms. This initiative, beginning on Friday 15th February, is directed at the public in general, although it has been designed with residents of the Valencia Region and neighbouring areas in mind, given that their proximity to the City of Arts and Sciences will allow them to use the pass more often.

   

  
  
• 08/02/08

  The science director of the City of Arts and Sciences, Manuel Toharia, presents the book entitled "Measurements of the Universe" by Tomás Hormigo

  
  
• 06/02/08

  Conferences, workshops and astronomy observations in the City of Arts and Sciences

  The City of Arts and Sciences’ scientific director, Manuel Toharia, today presented the complex’s astronomy programme which, for the fifth year running, includes a series of conferences and free astronomy observations. In fact, today, Wednesday, from 19:15 to 21:00, an activity will be held called “The life of a star, stellar evolution and observing open clusters,” with Francisco Izquierdo Gómez in charge, the Selenography and Occultations coordinator of the Valencian Astronomy Association (AVA).

   

  
  
• 05/02/08

  International Symposium on Learning, Memory and Cognitive Functions

  International experts will be debating the latest research into learning and memory, and their deterioration with age or in pathological situations.

   

  
  
• 04/02/08

  New "disABILITY" exhibition in the Principe Felipe Science Museum

  The Principe Felipe Science Museum inaugurated today the new “disABILITY” exhibition, which intends to create awareness about the daily obstacles faced by those who suffer some kind of disability as well as their innumerable capabilities. It has been created by Fundación Grupo SIFU, currently one of the most important Special Centres of employment in Spain. The regional Social Welfare secretary, David Calatayud, the City of Arts and Sciences’ General Director, Jorge Vela, and Grupo Sifu’s Managing Director, Cristian Rovira, participated in the act.

   

  
  
• 02/02/08

  "Him" and "From First to Last" round off MTV Winter´s line-up on 5th March in the City of Arts and Sciences

  The Finnish “Him” and Americans “From First to Last” make up MTV Winter’s line-up on 5th March to be held in the City of Arts and Sciences. The two groups will thus be joining “The Cure”, who are heading the line-up and will be kicking off MTV Winter, a musical event that will be bringing a series of free concerts to Valencia over the next four years, and which will make the City of Arts and Sciences one of the places to be for European music.

   

  
  
• 30/01/08

  The City of Arts and Sciences is to be present in FITUR 2008

  The City of Arts and Sciences has stood out in the International Tourism Fair, FITUR 2008, as an international reference in cultural tourism and image par excellence projected abroad of the Valencian Community Region, thanks to its ability to house first class events on both a national and international level, and as a great tourist attraction for millions of visitors every year.

   

  
  
• 20/01/08

  Doctors Venter and Collingridge receive the 2008 Santiago Grisolía Chair Awards

  Doctors Craig Venter, president and f0under of the J.Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), and Graham L. Collingridge, professor of Neuroscience and director of the MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity at the University of Bristol, have received the 2008 Santiago Grisolía Chair Awards, which are organised by the Chair assigned to the City of Arts and Sciences Foundation.

   

  
  
• 06/01/08

  Over 210,000 people enjoyed the culture and leisure on offer in the City of Arts and Sciences over the Christmas period

  A total of 212,000 people enjoyed the culture and leisure activities on offer in the City of Arts and Sciences over the Christmas period. From 22nd December until today 6th January, more than 177,00 people have visited the CAC buildings. More specifically, the Prince Felipe Science Museum has received around 120,000 visitors, the Oceanographic Park over 40,000, and the Hemisfèric more than 17.000 in audience.