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The Algarve Centre for Live Science is
to reopen next month, after having been closed for about a year and a
half. There will be a new permanent exhibition devoted to the sea.The
reopening of the centre, where the Faro power-station once operated,
will see a new image of the building and the inauguration of a new
permanent exhibition.
The Centre for Live Science was closed for building work after some
construction faults were found on the first floor of the building.
The
work has taken a year and a half and saw some delays, but the
management has guaranteed that the doors will once again open to
visitors in May.
“The Sea” is the theme of the new exhibition, and it will encourage
visitors to explore the deep blue of the oceans and lead them to ask
questions about the origins and future of life.
Going up to the first floor in the lift, visitors will see the
“Arrival on the Blue Planet” and a magnificent aerial view introducing
the exhibition. Some of the modules to try out are the “Apalpário”,
where visitors can touch the exhibits, “The Currents of the Blue
Planet”, “Underwater Movements” and “Phenomena of the Sea”, which will
enable visitors to rediscover the immensity and the biodiversity of the
oceans and include explanations about the physical and geological
phenomena associated with the sea.
The Centre will also have a CyberCafé where it will be possible to
surf on the information superhighway, with an excellent view over the
centre’s two coral aquaria.
The exhibition, financed by the Algarve Operational Programme, will
be in Portuguese and English, but will also have explanatory leaflets
available in Spanish and French. When it opened in 1997, the Algarve
Centre for Live Science was the first interactive centre for the
dissemination of science and technology of the Live Science network.
Before closing for building work, the centre received 20,000 visitors
per year.
source: algarve observer
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