Parque da Ciência Newton Freire Maia, Science park in Pinhais, Brazil.

Parque da Ciência Newton Freire Maia is a green space in Pinhais with multiple buildings focused on energy, earth, city, and water topics. Each pavilion offers hands-on experiments and multimedia displays that let visitors explore these subjects in interactive ways.

The park opened in 2002 as a science facility on land that previously hosted agricultural exhibitions. It received its current name in 2003 to honor Brazilian geneticist Newton Freire-Maia.

The Indigenous Planetarium, housed in the Energy Pavilion, is among the first in Brazil to present indigenous ethnoastronomy, showing traditional sky knowledge alongside conventional astronomy. The park also names its 3D room after geographer Milton Santos and its library after architect Rubens Meister, and the 6,000 m² Paraná Stage is a scale map-model of the state.

The park is reached via Estrada da Graciosa in Pinhais, in the Curitiba metropolitan area. Most visitors are primary and secondary school pupils on excursions booked by schools from Paraná and other states, so individual visitors should arrange their visit in advance. The grounds also host fairs, seminars, workshops, courses and lectures.

The Milton Santos 3D Room in the City Pavilion presents geography from Brazil and around the world using advanced visualization technology. This technological approach helps visitors understand complex spatial concepts in a way that feels genuinely new.