English News 2006
Top Sailing! A new exhibition at the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum
The Science Museum has, this Christmas, included an interactive exhibition within the provision of scientific and cultural events normally held on this site. This is “Top Sailing”, which, directly linked with the holding of the 32nd America’s Cup in Valencia next year, takes the wind, the sea and navigation as its main themes.
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The Museo de las Ciencias hosts the 'Félix, 25 years of ecological awareness exhibition'
From Wednesday 13th December, the Museo de las Ciencias is to host the exhibition entitled “Félix, 25 years of ecological awareness”, organised by the BBVA Foundation and Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente in collaboration with the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias
Read moreMore than 190,000 people visit the City of Arts and Sciences over the Constitution Day and 'Inmaculada' Holidays
The City of Arts and Sciences received more than 190,000 visitors over the “Constitution Day and “Inmaculada” holidays, last Friday, 8th December, being the day when the greatest figure for public attendance at the L’Hemisfèric, the Science Museum and the Oceanográfico was recorded, with a total of 42,613 visitors to the three venues.
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Lake of the Museo de las Ciencias turned into a huge skating rink until 7th January
The Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias has installed a huge skating rink in the lake of the Museo de las Ciencias which will be open to the public for the whole of December until 7th January.
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The Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias holds its 6th Christmas Festival on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th December
On Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th December, the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias is holding its Christmas Festival for the sixth year running, which will include a wide variety of leisure activities such as theatre, workshops, animations and a skating rink on the lake of the Museo de las Ciencias that will be operating from Tuesday 5th December to 7th January. In addition, representatives from the TV programme “Mira quien baila” will undertake a demonstration and give a dance class to the public that attends the Festival.
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The Museo de las Ciencias hosts the International Conference on Food Contaminants and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
To present the latest research on the effects of the contaminants existing in the food chain on cerebral development and to discuss the possible implications of this research on European policy are the main aims of the International Conference on Food Contaminants and Neurodevelopment Disorders, organised by the University Professor Santiago Grisolía, as member of the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias Foundation, and which is to be held from tomorrow at the Museo de las Ciencias.
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The Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias displays the ESP-51 yacht of the Spanish Challenge 2007
From today, in the Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe, the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias is to display the ESP-51 of the Spanish Challenge 2007, the first of their boats used in the training sessions for the America’s Cup
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Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias to host the 'Titanic' exhibition in Valencia
The regional secretary for Events and promotions, Luis Lobón and the representative of “Titanic Centenary 2012”, Jesús Ferreiro, have today signed an agreement so that the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias will host, from March 1st 2007 to 30th March 2008, the “Titanic exhibition, which recreates the history of that legendary ship through original objects, images and documents.
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The Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias name the perimeter ring of the Hemisfèric the 'Carl Sagan Ring'
The General manager of the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Jorge Vela, the Director of the Museo de las Ciencias, Manuel Toharia and the writer Ann Druyan, main collaborator and widow of Carl Sagan, today presided over the ceremony in which the Perimeter Ring of the Hemisfèric was renamed the “Carl Sagan Ring”.
Read moreThe beluga whale born at the Oceanográfico dies twenty-five days after its birth
Despite the efforts of veterinary surgeons and carers to prevent it and the constant vigilance of mother and baby, the beluga whale born last 2nd November and for the first time in a European Zoological Centre, died at 12:15 today Monday, 27th November.
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The third year of 'L'Oceanogràfic Tuesdays' to be dedicated to polar seas
The Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias tomorrow begins its third edition of “L’Oceanogràfic Tuesdays” with the conference “the Antarctic continent and its surrounding ocean, the last untouched parts of the planet”, to be given by the director of the French Polar Institute, Gérard Jugie. Coinciding with International Polar Year, this year’s cycle of conferences is dedicated entirely to the polar seas and their surroundings.
Read moreWinners of the 9th Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias Christmas Art Competition
The art work of Eugenio Romero Martín, pupil in 2nd of ESO at the Colegio Marti Sorolla II of Valencia, has won the 9th Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias Christmas Art Competition to which more than one thousand primary and secondary pupils of the Valencia Region presented their work. The winning entry is to be the Christmas greetings image for the Valencia Regional Government’s scientific, leisure and cultural complex.
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The Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias puts the Alinghi Simulator on display
The lake of the Hemisfèric at the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias will be putting a real size replica of the SUI 64, the Alinghi Simulator, on display.
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The Oceanográfico hosts a conference to be given by the Nobel Prize for Medicine winner, Sydney Brenner
The winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, Sydney Brenner, will today, Monday 20th November, present his research on genetic studies from marine to human at the Oceanográfico of the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias.
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The baby beluga is now two weeks old, but still of an uncertain future.
The baby beluga whale born last November 2nd, a male, has just completed two weeks of life, although its possibilities of survival continue to be slim, as explained the Oceanográfic’s Director of Biology, Pablo Areitio, and the head of the veterinary service, Daniel García.
Read moreOceanogràfic's Dolphinarium to remain closed to improve and reform the installation
The Oceanográfico’s Dolphinarium at the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias will remain closed over the Inmaculada holidays and over the next three months so as to repair and improve the main pool so that it can host future projects to enrich the Oceanográfic’s activities.
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Science Museum to host the 3rd International Symposium on Advances in Oncological Dermatology
The Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe will host the 3rd International Symposium on Advances in Oncological Dermatology on 16th and 17th December, which will bring together 300 dermatologists from all over the world and will present all the latest developments in the diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous tumours.
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Museo de las Ciencias celebrates its 6th anniversary with around 18 million visitors.
Around 18 million people have visited the Museo de las Ciencias since it was opened to the public on 13th November 2000. Coinciding with its sixth anniversary, the Museum is this weekend hosting the annul meeting of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association of Scientific Communication.
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On Sunday the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias will be holding its ¿Sports Day¿ for the second year running
For the second year running, the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias is holding its “Sports day”, a special participative and educational day on Sunday 12th November, open to all and free-of-charge, with the aim of contributing to getting to know sport better and encouraging the public to take part.
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The Museo de las Ciencias celebrates its 6th anniversary as the seat of the Spanish Association of Scientific Communication
The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of this association, made up of scientific media from all over Spain, will be held next weekend.
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