4 March 2008
Hail to All Brainiacs
Children’s Science Centre
Onion that doesn’t make you cry. A computer which you can use without a mouse or a keyboard. Discovery of a new planet by the Japanese (Planet Fashion, presumably?).
Your track record with science’s always been pretty painful, right? What a pity, then, that as a child, no one took you to a place like ITU Bilim Merkezi and told you that science could actually be fun.
Opened just a few months ago, this is a gem of a place; so rare that you almost forgive their teething problems like the hasty website. The location is great (bang in the middle of town in Taksim), and aspiring to be the Istanbul equivalent of Science Museum in London, they’ve got a variety of super cool activities for kids: The centre is divided into different sections on space, DNA, optical illusions (popular with both young and old), electricity and many more; plus the ‘thrilling’ subjects of maths and physics (not the quantum sort, thankfully).
If you think ‘Mysterious Old Face’ is a new perfume by Michael Jackson rather than a newly-discovered dinasour species, it’s time to go back to school via this centre.
ITU Bilim Merkezi, Taskisla Kampusu, Taksim. 0212.251 60 13 or bilimmerkezi.itu.edu.tr. Closed on Mondays. Contributed by Katherine Meighan.
Your track record with science’s always been pretty painful, right? What a pity, then, that as a child, no one took you to a place like ITU Bilim Merkezi and told you that science could actually be fun.
Opened just a few months ago, this is a gem of a place; so rare that you almost forgive their teething problems like the hasty website. The location is great (bang in the middle of town in Taksim), and aspiring to be the Istanbul equivalent of Science Museum in London, they’ve got a variety of super cool activities for kids: The centre is divided into different sections on space, DNA, optical illusions (popular with both young and old), electricity and many more; plus the ‘thrilling’ subjects of maths and physics (not the quantum sort, thankfully).
If you think ‘Mysterious Old Face’ is a new perfume by Michael Jackson rather than a newly-discovered dinasour species, it’s time to go back to school via this centre.
ITU Bilim Merkezi, Taskisla Kampusu, Taksim. 0212.251 60 13 or bilimmerkezi.itu.edu.tr. Closed on Mondays. Contributed by Katherine Meighan.
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