So Much to Discover
Over 60 hands-on exhibits across 400 m² at the Science Center. Ready to be explored by visitors of all ages.
A Feel for Weight
Which box is heavier?
A Glimpse into Infinity
Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel?
A Window into Weihenstephan
What is Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences researching right now?
AI Knows You
How does artificial intelligence assess you?
AI Photo Booth
What would you look like if AI repainted your photo?
An Image in Motion
A bicycle rim can do more than roll!
Bicycle Gears
Why is it easier to ride uphill in a low gear?
Bottle Tornado
How does a tornado form?
Building with Bioblo
Do you have what it takes to be an architect?
Colored Shadows
How many colors can your shadow be?
Compound Eye
Look through seven honeycomb-shaped lenses like an insect and discover how a compound eye breaks the world into many individual images.
Concave Mirror
Why are you suddenly upside down?
Dance of the Dots
How do you control the dots?
Deepfake
Can you still trust your own eyes?
Dice Snake
How likely is that?
Distorting Mirror
Mirror, mirror on the wall—what are you doing?
Dividat Platform
Can you beat the high score?
Electric Fleas
Can static electricity make things jump?
Energy Bike
How much power do you have?
Eulerian Paths
Can you trace the lines with the string?
Fog Tornado
How does a whirlwind form?
Follow the Curve
Can you follow the curve as accurately as possible?
Giant Newton’s Cradle
An oversized version of the classic Newton’s cradle: lift one ball, and energy travels invisibly through the entire row.
Glow Wall
Can light leave a trail?
Kaleidoscope
How many images can one mirror create?
Knock Light
Knock, knock: How does movement become light?
Leonardo Bridge
Can you build a bridge using only wood?
Magne(t)tisch (Magnetic Table)
What does a magnetic field look like?
Marble Race
Which track is the fastest?
Marble Run Mission
How can you build the best path for the ball?
Marble Run Simulator
Can you get the virtual balls to the finish?
Microscope Table
Discover a world you can’t see with the naked eye.
Mirror Patterns
What happens when an original and its reflection meet?
Monochrome Room
Where have all the colors gone?
Music Bench
The instrument—make some music!
Non-Circular Wheels
Can a wheel roll even if it isn’t round?
Observing Your Pupils
How do your eyes respond to light?
Overhang
What’s the best way to cross a gorge?
Penrose Puzzle
How can order emerge without repetition?
Pi Wall
Thousands of decimal places of pi, each digit color-coded and displayed at a glance as a wall image.
Pinna Illusion
Is something moving here—or isn’t it?
Polarization
Why do colors suddenly appear where there were none before?
Rocket
Build a rocket and launch it!
Rotating Mirrors
Why does your reflection suddenly look “the right way around”?
Rough or Smooth
What can you feel?
Sand Box
Shape landscapes with your hands!
Soma Cube
Assemble a perfect cube from seven different wooden pieces.
Sphere Pyramid
Assemble a pyramid with a triangular base from four pieces.
Square Puzzle
How many squares fit together perfectly?
Strip Mirror
Who is looking back at you?
Swinging Ball
How can you make the ball swing higher?
Tetrahedron Puzzle
Assemble a triangular pyramid from four identical red solids.
The Conway Cube
You have three small red cubes and six blue rectangular blocks. Can you assemble them into a cube?
The Four Ts
Fit all four T-shaped pieces into the frame without stacking them.
The Hanger’s Shadow
Shadows can look very different.
The Honeycomb
Arrange the hexagons around the fixed hexagon so that only matching colors touch.
The Quadriangle
Can you use all four green pieces to make a triangle first and then a square?
The T
Assemble the letter T from the four yellow pieces.
Thermal Imaging Camera
What does the world look like through heat?
Three-Period Pendulum
Do they all swing in sync—or not?
Tower of Ionah
Can you move the tower in 31 moves?
Two-Piece Pyramid
Assemble a pyramid with a triangular base from two blue solids.
Uphill with Timing
How far can you bring the ball toward you?
Walk-In Kaleidoscope
How many times can you see yourself?
Weighing Instead of Calculating
How much weight do the proofs carry?
Wind Table (Up in the Air)
Can you make things float?
Wind Tube
What can fly?
Wind Turbine
How does wind become electricity?
Zoetrope
What do pictures and movies have in common?
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Balls in Orbit: Real Physics in Action
Not a video or a loop: these balls are recalculated live with every frame—gravity, speed, trajectory. Visitors can explore these same principles at the physics exhibit in the Science Center.