Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe
Whale-shaped science museum of glass and concrete ribs on a former riverbed, with three floors of interactive exhibits.
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This guide to the Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe in Valencia opens with the night of October 14th, 1957, when a flooded Turia river tore through the city and left it determined never to trust that riverbed again. It follows the decade-long project to reroute the river out of the city, and the empty channel that was left behind for planners and, eventually, architect Santiago Calatrava, to decide what to do with. The museum he designed here, born in a city still living with the memory of that flood, opened in the year 2000. Stand back from the glass facade to take in the full length of the ribs before you go inside.
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