Immerse yourself in Terra Extraordinària, a space in the Museu de les Ciències that travels from the origin of the universe to the functioning of the Earth and the enviormental challenges of humanity

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If we condense 13,800,000,000 years of the universe’s history and transfer them to the timescale of an annual calendar, human life would take just 0.2 seconds.

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«Welcome to the planet Earth: a place of blue skies of nitrogen, oceans of liquid water, fresh forests and soft meadows; a world where the murmur of life is clearly heard». Carl Sagan.

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Under the motto ‘know to value and value to protect’, the exhibition Terra Extraordinària is created from the objectivity of science as a multisensory space in which to marvel at the extraordinary existence of our planet. A place where you can learn to understand its operation and its secrets, an essential question to understand the enviormental problems that it currently faces and assume effective solutions to build a sustainable future.

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A journey from the Big Bang to today

 

The exhibition takes a chronological and thematic tour structured in major milestones:

1. The creation of the universe
2. The formation of the Solar System and the birth of our planet
3. The emergence of life on Earth

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The planet’s four interconnected systems

 

The planet Earth occupies a prominent place in the exhibition, explained through each of the essential systems that compose it and are related to each other:

• Geosphere: The study of earth and solid materials.
• Biosphere: The global ecosystem and the murmur of life.
• Hydrosphere: The role of liquid water and oceans.
• Atmosphere: The air layer and the nitrogen skies.

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The impact of humanity

 

The human species also has its own dedicated space in the exhibition, where the anthropic effects that our activity has created are explained rigorously and how these have come to change dramatically in the enviorment around us.

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An exclusive advance on the third floor

 

The last area of the exhibition shows a preview of what will be the great project that is being developed for its next commissioning on the third floor of the Museu de les Ciències.