Museum of Science and Cosmos

The Museum of Science and the Cosmos breaks all museum rules: here you touch, experiment and play with science. Created by the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) under astrophysicist Ignacio García de la Rosa, it was inaugurated on 11 May 1993 by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who arrived straight from over 300 days on the Mir space station. On 6 July 1993, the museum was visited by the Prince of Asturias (today King Felipe VI), who has on several occasions expressed his fascination with astronomy.

The building designed by Jordi Garcés and Enric Sòria (with museographic design by Enric Franch) has the shape of a half-star when seen from above, reflecting the museum's astronomical theme. The terrace functions as an observatory: a radiotelescope antenna, a small telescope and an analemmatic sundial. The planetarium uses a GOTO GE II projection system displaying 2,800 stars.

Dozens of interactive experiments across six thematic zones: El Sol (the Sun), El cuerpo humano (the Human Body), Cómo funciona (How it Works), La Tierra (the Earth), El Universo (the Universe) and the Sala Microcosmos for children. You can experience Earth's rotation, orbits around black holes, optical illusions and how levers work. You can touch a real meteorite.