Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Ciência Viva
Hands-on science museum in a ship-shaped pavilion built for a World Exposition themed on the oceans.
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This guide to the Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon starts at Expo '98, when architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça built a ship-shaped pavilion around the exposition's theme of the oceans, with a real traditional boat from the São Jacinto shipyards standing inside its central nave. You'll hear how the ship was removed once the fair closed and what science minister José Mariano Gago did with the empty building within a year, turning it toward a mission built on hands-on experiments rather than lectures. Take a moment at the plaza outside, now named for Gago, before you head in.
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