Tom Tits Experiment



Tom Tits Experiment is a science centre located in the municipality of Södertälje in Stockholm County, Sweden – and the first permanent hands-on science centre in the Nordic countries. It started as a temporary exhibition in the Södertälje Art Hall in 1985. Two years later, a permanent exhibition was opened in its current premises, which were previously used for industrial purposes by the company Alfa Laval. The name Tom Tit comes from the French book Tom Tit – La Science Amusante by Arthur Good, which contains various experiments originally published in a French magazine under the pseudonym Tom Tit.

Tom Tits Experiment comprises an area of 15,000 square metres and has exhibitions and experiments on the themes of technology, physics, mathematics, natural geography, biology, man and optical illusions. The indoor part occupies around 6,000 square metres, and the outdoor part 9,000 square metres. In total, the facility has about 500 experiments.

In 2006 Tom Tits Experiment was awarded the Luigi Micheletti Award, a prestigious prize (under the auspices of the Council of Europe) for museums with a focus on contemporary history, science and the industrial and social cultural heritage of Europe.