Odysseum
Hands-on science museum built on a former chemical works, now being converted into a public school.
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This guide to Odysseum in Cologne's Kalk district starts with the ground beneath it, once a chemical works, and follows it through wartime air raids, the end of production in the nineteen nineties and the cleanup that came after. Then comes the adventure museum of science that opened here in two thousand nine, with its hands-on stations and touring blockbuster shows, and the money questions that hung over it. Best heard standing outside the main entrance.
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