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The Evoluon was built in 1966 as a
television from 1968 to 1972.
In October 2013 the Evoluon was used to stage four 3D-concerts by the German electronic band
Overzicht_voorzijde_-_Eindhoven_-_20357095_-_RCE_crop.jpg, View from the north
Luchtfoto_Randweg_Eindhoven,_Strijp_crop.jpg, Aerial view in 2009
Evoluon91.jpg, Night view in 1991
cmglee Evoluon lounge.jpg, Entrance lobby
Interieur Evoluon.jpg, Interior in 1968
cmglee_Evoluon_interior_portrait.jpg, Interior in 2016
Official websiteExtensive site about the history of the EvoluonPhilips Technical Review 1970 5/6
-- article on The Evoluon at page 186 Convention centres in the Netherlands Defunct museums in the Netherlands Museums in Eindhoven Science museums in the Netherlands
The Evoluon was built in 1966 as a science museum
A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in mu ...
by the electronics and electrical company Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters i ...
. It quickly became a landmark in Eindhoven
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,conference centre
A convention center (American English; or conference centre in British English) is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typica ...
in 1998
The building is unique due to its very futuristic design, resembling a landed flying saucer
A flying saucer (also referred to as "a flying disc") is a descriptive term for a type of flying craft having a disc or saucer-shaped body, commonly used generically to refer to an anomalous flying object. The term was coined in 1947 but has g ...
. It was designed by architects Leo de Bever
Leonardus Lodewijk Josephus "Leo" de Bever (14 July 1930 – 14 August 2015) was a Dutch architect best known for his works in the city of Eindhoven, which included the Evoluon which he created together with
, the Catharina Ziekenhuis and Eindho ...
and Louis Christiaan Kalff, while the exhibition it housed was conceived by James Gardner. De Bever and Kalff only got two demands for the design of the building, it had to be "spectacular" and it had to be possible to hold exhibitions in the building.
Its concrete dome is in diameter and is held in place by of reinforcing steel bars.
In the 1960s and 1970s the Evoluon attracted large numbers of visitors due to its innovative interactive exhibitions. When competing science museums opened in other cities, the number of visitors declined and the original museum closed down in 1989. The building was converted into a conference centre which opened in 1998.
In the UK the Evoluon is chiefly remembered from Bert Haanstra
Albert Haanstra (; 31 May 1916 – 23 October 1997) was a Dutch director of films and documentaries. His documentary ''Glass'' (1958) won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. His feature film ''Fanfare'' (1958) was the mo ...
's wordless short film entitled simply ''Evoluon'', commissioned by Philips to publicise the museum, and shown as a trade test colour film on BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk (, "power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the ...
, each before an audience of 1,200 spectators. Key band member Ralf Hütter
Ralf Hütter (born 20 August 1946) is a German musician and composer best known as the lead singer and keyboardist of Kraftwerk, which he founded with Florian Schneider in 1969. On May 12, 2021, Kraftwerk was announced as one of the inductees of ...
handpicked the venue for its retro-futuristic
Retrofuturism (adjective ''retrofuturistic'' or ''retrofuture'') is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipatin ...
look. Bespoke 3D-visuals of the saucer section of the building descending from space were used in the live rendition of their track ''Spacelab''.
On September 24, 2022, the Evoluon reopened to the public with the ''RetroFuture'' exhibition.
See also
*List of convention centres in the Netherlands {{short description, None
There are several convention centres in the Netherlands. Traditionally there is a distinction in the Netherlands between convention centres for meetings and those for exhibitions/trade shows. Over the past decades this di ...
References
External links
{{commons category-inline, EvoluonOfficial website
-- article on The Evoluon at page 186 Convention centres in the Netherlands Defunct museums in the Netherlands Museums in Eindhoven Science museums in the Netherlands