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CERN Exhibitions Microcosm and Universe of Particles

1217 Meyrin (près de Genève), Switzerland (Genf)
Address Route de Meyrin 372
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Physics
  • Nuclear / Radiation
  • Automation Control Systems
  • Electricity / Magnetism
  • Superconductivity

Opening times
 Tuesday to Sunday: Exhibition opens: 9:00 - 17:00
mardi au dimanche: Expositions et autres activités de 9:00 à 17:00

Admission
Status from 07/2023
 Free entry.
Contact
Tel.:+41-22-767 76 76   
Homepage
to Location / Directions
outreach.web.cern.ch/outreach/expos_cern/index.html
not in present exhibition
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Location / Directions
N46.234267° E6.055077°N46°14.05602' E6°3.30462'N46°14'3.3612" E6°3'18.2772"

From Geneva International Airport at Cointrin

Taxi - approximately 35 CHF - 15-minute ride
Public transport - 3 CHF - approx. 30-minute ride
You can already buy your public transport ticket at the automatic machine in the baggage reclaim area before passing the customs control
Take bus 23 (to ‘Carouge Tours’), bus 28 (to ‘Les Esserts’), but 56 (to 'Hôpital de La Tour') or bus 57 (to ‘ZIMEYSA-Gare’), get off at ‘Blandonnet’, then catch tram 18 to ‘CERN’. The final stop, ‘CERN’, is located between the Globe and the CERN Reception.

See the public transport website for full details.

Some example tube pages for sets you can see there:

Photomultiplier R7899
Description

European Organization for Nuclear Research

CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN as a result of international collaborations.

CERN is also the birthplace of the World Wide Web. The main site at Meyrin has a large computer facility containing powerful data processing facilities, primarily for experimental-data analysis; because of the need to make these facilities available to researchers elsewhere, it has historically been a major wide area networking hub.

CERN offers visitors the opportunity to explore at one's own pace two permanent exhibitions:
 

"Universe of Particles"

is the exhibition installed in the Globe of Science and Innovation. Dedicated to CERN main missions it allows to explore the world of particles by immersing the visitor in a unique and spectacular ambiance.
 

Due to big maintenance work on the Globe, Universe of Particles exhibition will be closed from Monday 4 May 2015 and will reopen beginning 2016.

 

 

"Microcosm"

Microcosm is a museum of particle physics located at CERN. It covers a broad range of particle physics topics, as well as the entire history of CERN. Exhibits include:
explanations of the purpose of CERN and particle physics research in general.
a mock-up, hands-on version of Rutherford's gold foil experiment
a real-time cosmic ray detector
a mock-up of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel
models and explanations of current and future CERN experiments
equipment from old experiments, including a large part of the UA1 detector, which ran at the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN from 1981 to 1984, and helped discover the W and Z bosons.

 

 

 

 

Microcosm is undergoing a major revamp with new exhibitions inaugurated this Autumn. CERN’s summer visitors will be given a preview of the future contents as the building reopens partially from 20th July.

 

 

 

 

Microcosm garden

The Microcosm garden features several large components of old CERN experiments.

 

 
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