8 supporting structures: height 1000 x width 750 x length 2350 mm

1 Kakemono: printed canvas 940 x 2310 mm
8 text boards: 4 PVC boards (1800 x 650 x 5 mm)

4 boards (1800 x 770 x 5 mm)

1 bench including 3 drawers to store educational equipment (2420 x 450 x 450 mm)

Experiments, multimedia programs, writing desks, glass cabinets, museographic installation

Detailed description of each unit

Unit 1: Entering the nanoworld

Video terminal: “Plunge into the nanoworld”
Multimedia terminal: Nanoreisen program
Museographic installation: curtain of suspended strings

Experiments
Atomic relationship
Quantum blur
Brownian movement
Atomic table football

Unit 2: Handling the matter

Experiments:
Force feedback device
Lego glove
Magnetic Lego
Multimedia terminals:
         Nanofactory: the molecular factory
         Scanning tunnelling microscope
         3 glass cabinets: nanotechnologies applications

Unit 3: They are already among us

Video terminals
         The world’s R&D platforms, the example of Minatec
         Investments in nanotechnologies
         Companies, professions and training
         Multimedia terminals: quiz “What kind of Homomtechnicus are you? »

Unit 4: Does the future need us?

3 desks:
         Science-fiction images/myths related to techniques
         Photographic montage on the short and long-term fantasies
         Free expression space for the visitors
3 video terminals:
         What are the imaginable risks and precautions?
         Which ethical questions are raised by the nanotechnologies?
         What are the new relations between sciences and society?

Languages: French, English, Spanish

Accessibility: general audience, children from the age of 10: texts and animations adapted to children

Site: 300 m²
Fluids: electrical installation 220V – 16A

Accompaniment edition:
         Exhibition visuals on demand
         Educational document
         Visit notebooks for young audiences
         Animation guide

Complementary information:                
Jeany Jean-Baptiste, Resources centre manager
Direct phone line: +33 (0)4 76 44 88 74 – Switchboard number: +33 (0)4 76 44 88 80
E-mail: jeany.jean-baptiste@ccsti-grenoble.org