The Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe ( ca-valencia, Museu de les Ciències Príncep Felip, es, Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe, anglicised as "Science Museum Príncipe Felipe") is a
science museum in
Valencia, Spain. It is part of the
City of Arts and Sciences, an architectural complex within the city and can be found at the end of Luis García Berlanga Street. Its director is
Manuel Toharia
Manuel Toharia Cortés is a Spanish science writer, museum director, and television personality.
Biography and career
Born on August 3, 1944 in Madrid, Spain, Toharia is the Science Director of the City of Arts and Sciences, and the Príncipe F ...
, a Spanish science writer and television personality.
The building is over , has a height of ,
and it resembles the skeleton of a
whale,
[ a façade that was designed by Santiago Calatrava and was built by a joint venture of ]Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, S.A. (), or FCC, is a Spanish construction company based in Barcelona. Until November 2014, over 50 percent of the shares were owned by a company controlled by the daughter of its founder, Esther Koplo ...
and Necso. Its construction started around 1994, it was symbolically inaugurated in March 2000 by Felipe VI, and it opened on 13 November 2000 with an investment of 26 million pesetas.[ Some scenes from the film '' Tomorrowland'' (2015) were filmed at the City of Arts and Sciences, including some shots on the museum's cantilever.]
Gallery
File:Valencia-20120510-00200.jpg, View of the museum from the southwest
File:Péndulo de Foucault (M. Ciències Valencia) 01.jpg, Foucault's pendulum in the museum
File:Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe 04032011.jpg, A climate change exhibition
References
External links
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Museu de les Ciencies Principe Felipe
Museums in Valencia
Science museums in Spain
Museu de les Ciencies Principe Felipe
Museums established in 2000
Museu de les Ciencies Principe Felipe