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Museo Descubre (Full name: "''Descubre, Museo Interactivo de Ciencia y Tecnología''" or "''Discover Interactive Museum of Science and Technology''") is a hands-on, interactive

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

located in the city of

Aguascalientes City (''Virtue in the Water, Fidelity in the Heart'') , image_skyline = AGUASCALIENTES CITY.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = Clockwise from top: San Antonio de Padua Church, La Exedra (main square), Aguascal ...

, Aguascalientes,

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. Inside, the museum is shaped like a spiral, leading inward to various paths of knowledge. The museum creates a link between fun and learning by allowing visitors to actively participate by touching and playing with exhibits. The museum has exhibits on the sciences of

life science Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy t ...

, earth science, and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...

. It also contains an

IMAX dome IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating. Graeme F ...

, allowing viewers to view films in full panorama. It also contains an auditorium, coffee shop and souvenir stores. File:Descubre-museo-interactivo-de-ciencias-y-tecnologia-de-aguascalientes-02.jpg File:Descubre-museo-interactivo-de-ciencias-y-tecnologia-de-aguascalientes-01.jpg File:Descubre-museo-interactivo-de-ciencias-y-tecnologia-de-aguascalientes-04.jpg File:Descubre-museo-interactivo-de-ciencias-y-tecnologia-de-aguascalientes-05.jpg

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* Museums in Aguascalientes Science museums in Mexico {{Mexico-museum-stub