Espace des Sciences, Scientific culture center in Rennes, France.
Espace des Sciences is a science center in Rennes featuring three exhibition halls, an interactive laboratory, and a planetarium. The venue presents displays on scientific topics across multiple spaces designed for visitors to learn and engage.
The CCSTI was created in 1984 and first housed in the Colombia shopping centre in Rennes. It took the name Espace des sciences in 1997. In 2006 it moved into Les Champs Libres alongside the Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole and the Musée de Bretagne. A 2013 convention with Morlaix Communauté led to a second site in the former tobacco factory, opened in July 2024.
The Espace des sciences runs the Pôle Bretagne culture scientifique, a role the Region of Brittany entrusted to it for developing scientific, technical and industrial culture across the region. It is a member of the AMCSTI, the French association of museums and centres for scientific, technical and industrial culture. It also publishes the monthly Sciences Ouest and popular-science books.
The planetarium seats 95 people under a 14-metre hemispherical screen and runs three to five sessions a day, so check the session times before touring the exhibition halls. The Espace des sciences occupies part of Les Champs Libres, shared with the Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole and the Musée de Bretagne.
The planetarium's 95-seat hall has a hemispherical screen 14 metres across and was renovated in 2013; its sponsor is the astrophysicist Hubert Reeves. Sessions run three to five times a day, and the same building holds the Merlin Laboratory, where visitors experiment themselves.
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