New opening of experimenta 2019 - LOBO convinces several times over

9 April 2019:

Last weekend, Germany’s largest science center was opened in Heilbronn with an official ceremony attended by Winfried Krestchmann, the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg. More than 300 selected guests, including Thomas Strobl, the Minister of the Interior, Digitalization and Migration of the State of Baden-Württemberg, were in attendance at the opening event hosted by TV and radio presenter Günther Jauch. It was followed by a full-dome and stage show in the Science Dome – the world’s first combination of planetarium and science theater – produced specifically for this occasion, before a tour through the discovery areas with 275 hands-on stations concluded the event.

In his keynote speech, Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann described the new Science Center as a “top class palace of science”. To him, a former biology and chemistry teacher, it seemed like the “gates to paradise”, a lucky strike for Heilbronn and the entire federal state, which depended on research and development like no other European region and invested a lot into it.

On the occasion of the two-day opening ceremony, attended, among others, by charity founder Dieter Schwarz, entrepreneur Reinhold Würth, SAP founding member Dietmar Hopp, selected guests and employees, LOBO electronic brought the experimenta to life for the first time. On the red carpet, the visitors were received by a guidance system and led through the building for the opening ceremony. Live images, media content and animations were projected onto three video screens. The opening countdown and virtual fireworks were accompanied by impressive light and special effects. On two floors illuminated specifically for this event, the experimenta was formally inaugurated with food, drinks and music.

The new experimenta Heilbronn claims to be Germany’s largest science center. Following a planning and construction period of about four years, the science palace with an exhibition space of about 25,000 m² was opened on 31 March 2019. With 270 interactive exhibits on five floors, the organizers want to attract young and old alike to the museum. A science and multimedia theater is located in the so-called Science Dome. Here, a TriDome laser system developed by LOBO electronic is permanently installed to project onto the 360° theater.

Incidentally, the organizers were already able to convince themselves of LOBO’s laser systems in 2009, when LOBO opened the first experimenta with an elaborate multimedia and laser show under the patronage of Günther Oettinger, Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister at the time.