Be prepared to discover CosmoCaixa Madrid
CosmoCaixa Madrid is a LaCaixa’s science museum located in Alcobendas, Madrid. Its inauguration was in 2000, and for its facilities has gone 2 visitors millions and Nobel awards like Paul Crutzen, Georges Charpak or investigators like John Alcoy, Steven Rose or Sebasthian Thrun.
Currently the center has 12000 m2 that are distributed on three floors. CosmoCaixa Madrid has four big areas: the temporary exposition, the permanent exposition, the digital Planetarium and a rock garden where there are samples from the Iberian Peninsula.
The CosmoCaixa hours are 10 to 20h from tuesday to sunday, and its address is:
Pintor Velázquez Street, s/n
Alcobendas, Madrid
Phone: 91 484 52 00
This museums is very interesting, you can rent a car in Madrid to go CosmoCaixa and views a lot of things. You will enjoy with the next permanent expositiona among others:
- Life History: here you can view how was created the time, matter and space.
- Life Survival Instinct: all species have had to develop differents characteristics to survive and escape from predators and the new climatic conditions.
- Matter, the Miracle of Life: the matter is composed of few particles, and here you can view the particle strength.
- Egypt, the secret of mummies: an adventure between historical and forensic, where you can discover the life of the Pharaohs and how they lived to compare with the currently life.
If you want to know more about this museums, you have to visit it!