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The Science Centre Immaginario Scientifico is an interactive and multimedia science museum with different centres in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in Italy (Trieste, Pordenone and Montereale Valcellina).

All the centres are based on a new generation structure and they make use of expository interactive and multimedia techniques.

In addition, considering the great importance of science dissemination towards young people, all the museums offer various activities for schools of all grades, strongly marked by the use of informal didactic methods and playful didactics, in order to stimulate their interest towards scientific subjects and the scientific method.

As far as the exhibitions are concerned, these are made up of hands-on exhibits, that is interactive installations specifically thought to encourage visitors to be active and experiment. Indeed, these exhibits activate through buttons, cranks, or simply by touching or handling them: in this way visitors themselves can produce reactions and processes which allow them to see and understand a basic principle of natural phenomena. In addition, each of the museum has special areas reserved to informal and entertaining educational activities: these are equipped with seats, possibly in terraces, so as to encourage interaction during the sessions and to highlight their informality, since their aim is that to create a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

These didactic programmes consist of about 50 thematic demostrations on themes such as Biology, Chemistry, Ecology, Physics, Mathematics, Archaeology, Paleontology, Astronomy, etc. The programmes, which are expanded year by year, envisage a constant update of the activities, new educational sevices, exhibitions, multimedia material, interactive paths, events and institutional collaborations.

In the Science Centres of Trieste and Pordenone, there is also an area dedicated to temporary exhibitions, made up of multi-display projections on maxi-screens of high-impact science images, with short descriptions and musics created specifically for the exhibition. Due to their set-up, which is completely digital, these exhibitions can be displayed very easily even outside IS' museums, on occasion of science festival or other events.