Museumsportal Berlin

How does a battery work? Why is the sky blue? Why doesn’t an aeroplane fall from the sky? These and hundreds of other questions are answered at SPECTRUM, the Berlin Science Center in the former freight station building.
250 experiments motivate visitors to grasp technical principles in a playful environment. Technical equipment, whether historical or modern, is usually designed and built for practical application. The modern form often hides the functional mechanisms, so that lay people often have difficulty understanding this equipment. The Technikmuseum does not merely want to exhibit objects, it also wants to clearly demonstrate how these objects function.
Man´s environment is characterised by natural phenomena, such as sunlight and air, but is also threatened by noise and pollution caused by modern technology. These can be watched, measured and assessed at SPECTRUM.
Foucault´s pendulum in the atrium of the SPECTRUM building leads the visitor to Galileo’s discovery of the earth´s rotation, which has fundamentally influenced the physical view of the world since the 17th century, "... even so the earth does move".

Due to modernization the Science Center Spectrum remains closed from
5 December 2011 to the end of December 2012.