Technoda - Hadera, Science and medicine museum in Givat Olga, Israel

Technoda in Hadera is an interactive science museum founded in 1986 as an extension of the Madatech Museum at the Technion. Its campus, inaugurated in 2006, includes science and computer laboratories, a planetarium, and an observatory with a 40 cm telescope. The outdoor Science Park features an aviation complex with a Phantom aircraft, an Arrow missile, a Defender helicopter, and a UAV, plus solar, heat, and wind energy exhibits and giant musical instruments.

Technoda was founded in 1986 in Givat Olga as an extension of Madatech, the Technion's science museum, within a Jewish Agency neighbourhood rehabilitation project. Its initiators included Professor Zvi Dori, Arik Koren, Shrona Glazer and Uri Tzaan. A new campus with laboratories, an observatory and a planetarium opened in September 2006; construction of a large interactive exhibition hall began in late 2011, and a Museum of Medicine covering about 1,000 square metres opened in 2020.

The name Technoda combines the Hebrew words for technology and knowledge. The center was founded in 1986 as an extension of Madatech, the science museum of the Technion, in the Givat Olga neighborhood. Its Museum of Medicine, opened in 2020, holds six exhibitions with about 120 interactive exhibits, including operating rooms where procedures are demonstrated on human simulators.

The campus sits in Givat Olga, west of Hadera's centre near the coast. The outdoor Science Park covers four acres, so allow time to move between the laboratories, planetarium and open-air exhibits. The astronomy observatory and planetarium host lectures, and the 40 cm telescope gives up to 800x magnification.

The Science Park holds a Phantom jet, an Arrow missile, a Defender helicopter and an advanced UAV, showing aviation progress through real airframes. A telescope about 40 cm in diameter, using mirror and lens optics, gives up to 800 times magnification. Until 2025 a Kfir aircraft stood at the earlier building for about 30 years.