This is still a very museum summer for me ... A very special summer. Just under a year, I started this blog with a post in which he spoke of the temporary exhibition devoted to the hominids outlined in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe . That was the August 4, 2008. This summer, in my thirtieth anniversary, 4 July 2009, I crossed the Atlantic and go to visit some museums of science and technology of the West Coast.
I spent ten wonderful days touring the California coast between Point Reyes and Morro Bay. It's been an incredible journey in which I could enjoy nature in its purest form. If you saw the way to Point Reyes deer, cows and an old lighthouse built in the late s. XIX.
During our descent along the Big Sur redwoods towards Morro Bay we saw our way through the Redwoods.
and seals, walruses, otters and squirrels in Piedras Blancas. It was very exciting!
But it was not just my birthday and nature in its wildest only actors in this journey. Centers such like the Exploratorium , the Tech Museum , the Monterey Aquarium the California Academy of Science the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco were also leading my fleeting visits California getaway.
Each of these Museum breathes and beats and even differently from the four science museums visited, there were none to repeat the same story.
The same July 4, excited not only by celebrating American independence, but also my entry in her thirties, visited, the most anticipated of the museums ... the father of the interactive, the nest of creativity. Yes, with the image of the Golden Gate Bridge even on my retina ... could see the logo Exploratorium. The excitement was not small ... And I have to say ... That the experience was not at all disappointed! Between those four walls and large open space that is agglutinated thousands response actions that gave thousands of questions and generated even more questions. A giant concave mirror us back a mirror image and the focal point between the mirror and the observer. The laws of physics, were mixed with perception experiments, Biology, Psychology, Art or Engineering ... The shop was also forced stop Exploratorium ... it bought the odd memory, scientific juguetillos and several books. On my desk waiting for me incredibly wonderful Something Happens, Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up KC Cole and Exploratopia more than 400 experiments for curious minds developed by the Exploratorium own . 
The next visit was to Monterey Aquarium. Personally, I feel a certain attraction to the world ocean, the water and the deep sea. I imagine that, as stated in the aquarium itself, the sea is the closest we get to be from another world . Still, I want to stress that the Monterey Aquarium is something special. Their motto is "explore, discover, act." In it, discuss the beauty, scientific knowledge and ecological responsibility. It consists of a beautiful and diverse museography adapted for different audiences. There are rooms designed for children, including for so small they only play with shapes, sounds and some concept. The content is multiple interactives are well acclimated, different ecosystems and pedagogically breed jellyfish exhibit is the work of living art world's most beautiful. As hives and as fascinating ... You could spend hours watching these creatures ... 
Up the road we saw central vacuum systems for oil ... Finally we come to San Jose. Our stop in this city was destined to get in touch with the Tech Museum staff , who treated us with great kindness. The Tech Museum is a different museum, where the technology starts to be creative! Long ago, the Museums are seen as places that speak of the past, but do not forget that back in the day, the Universal Exhibition was a great revolution in the exhibition. Showing contemporary science, technology and gadgets of today and tomorrow. We could say that Tech continues that step forward. 
And we go back to San Francisco ... the trip is over and we still have a lot to see and taste nostalgic because we know that although there have been only ten days, never forget California. Back in the city , visited the California Academy of Science . A newly renovated museum offers visitors a pecking among the different specialties with fresh formats and youth as open day with cocktails late scientific and not so scientific. Perhaps the part I would like to point out in the planetarium. An immense dome with six projectors ready to show the mysteries of the sky. And finally, an innovative green roof to visitors for all with telescopes pointing to the sun, our sun 
As you can see there has been a dull moment ... rather it has been an experience that had long wished some more months ...
Once back, I attended the course Science, Technology Industrial Heritage i: i Museïtzar Store offered by the University of Barcelona. Ten teachers, including Jorge Wagensberg, Xavier Roig or Isabel Fuentes we have been approaching the concept of museum, interactive, industrial heritage ... We have explained their individual cases ... In particular I would like to congratulate Turull Emi, director of Museu Agbar de les Aigues , for its exciting exhibition and bright ideas, activities and proposals of the center. But despite 20 hours of lectures ... I have the feeling in the throat ... nothing is like experiencing the adventure yourself in a museum. Smell, touch, hear, see and judge the great pioneers and is really inspiring. If someone has the opportunity to travel to California, do not miss these four museums, with their paths stories.
In Citilab are thinking about starting a new exhibition road, but the philosophy of the center ... have to make a big dip so that we could reinvent a new concept of participatory technology exhibitions. We keep you informed ...
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