Experimentarium
Brewery bottling hall turned science center with a DNA-shaped staircase and rooftop terrace.
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This guide to Experimentarium in Copenhagen begins with builders watching fire tear through scaffolding in 2015, midway through rebuilding the city's science museum. It reaches back to the building's start as Tuborg brewery's 1932 bottling hall, where workers filled bottles under a glazed steel roof until production stopped in the 1980s, and its 1991 rebirth as a hands-on science center that drew millions of visitors over the following decades. By 2014 the exhibits needed a full rebuild, so architects had already begun stripping the old brewery skeleton to its bones before the fire broke out.
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