Swiss Science Center Technorama
Technorama
Switzerland's largest interactive science center, with about 500 hands-on exhibits. Tornadoes, lightning, and optics experiments are a big hit with kids.
Technorama is in Winterthur, northeast of Zurich. Its exhibition halls cover physics, optics, electromagnetism, mechanics, and perception, and every exhibit invites hands-on play. Scheduled demonstrations of high-voltage electricity and chemistry take place daily. It's great for kids, and adults can have fun for half a day. From Zurich, take the train to Winterthur, which takes about 20 minutes, then transfer to bus line 5 to Technorama stop. Winterthur also has art museums, such as the Oskar Reinhart Collection, which you can visit along the way.
Opening hours
10:00–17:00; closed Mondays (except during holidays)
Nearby sights
- Rhine Falls
- Schaffhausen & Munot
- Zoo Zürich
- ETH Polyterrasse
- Kunsthaus Zürich
- Niederdorf (Old Town)
- Swiss National Museum
- Zürich Hauptbahnhof