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NEMO science center in Amsterdam

NEMO science center in Amsterdam ()

Kids and parents alike agreed on these top choices for the best science museums in Europe.

The Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland has 400 hands-on exhibits and workshops, plus a planetarium..

 At the Euro Space Center in Libin, Belgium you can experience a moonwalk, visit a Mars habitat, and take a VR space flight.

The Leonardo Interactive Museum in Florence, Italy allows you to test Leonardo da Vinci’s famous machines.

At the Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany you can explore hundreds of vehicles like trains, airplanes, submarines and even a space shuttle.

NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands is a massive place full of hands-on science demonstrations and fun activities.

The Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany is another amazing hands-in museum worth a day or more to check out the exhibit spaces and then move on to the satellite museum locations.

At the Energia avastuskeskus in Tallin, Estonia everything is interactive and there is a flashy lightning demonstration done with Tesla coils.

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Kat is a travel and lifestyle writer based in Kaiserslautern, Germany with a special interest in anything theatrical, outdoorsy or ancient. She has a bachelor’s degree in geography from Penn State University and is currently in the depths of an archaeology dissertation for the University of the Highlands and Islands.

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