On May 20th a new exhibition about the ALBA Synchrotron has been released at Cosmocaixa, the science museum of Barcelona managed by ”la Caixa” Foundation.

During one year, the ALBA Synchrotron will be at Top Ciència, a space of Cosmocaixa (Barcelona), aimed at promoting scientific careers and showing Spanish cutting-edge research.

The Top Ciència area is composed of different audio-visual and interactive materials to know better what a synchrotron is and how it works. The exhibition begins with a video introduction that briefly explains the basic information about ALBA. There are two games: one for explaining the complex of accelerators (where visitors can play with the bending magnets to get the beam inside a ring) and another game to explain how to use a beamline (where visitors try to discover the chemical species of mercury of a mine soil). For those interested in history, an interactive chronogram offers further information about the synchrotron light and ALBA. The exhibition also includes a real magnet from the booster ring of ALBA and a participative section where visitors are asked about their personal views related to science. To promote scientific careers, at Top Ciència there are videos of ALBA scientists who explain why they chose to study sciences.

More than fifteen people of the ALBA staff have been involved in this project, taking part in different activities and making possible the exhibition together with ”la Caixa” Foundation members and collaborators.

CosmoCaixa receives and average of 750.000 visitors every year and offers interactive, enjoyable science and an open door for anyone who is eager to learn and understand and who never stops wondering why things are the way they are.

Images of the different audio-visual and interactive materials of the exhibition.