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Your safety: our priority
As everywhere at CERN, your safety and well-being are our top priority. We want all our visitors to have a safe and enjoyable experience and to leave CERN with lasting good memories.
Below you will find some useful information for when you are on site.
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Opening hours
CERN Science Gateway is open from Tuesday to Sunday, closed on Monday
Groups (12 to 48 visitors)
Please note that group bookings will be closed from December 22nd 2023 to January 8th 2024 due to the end of the year closure of the CERN visits service.
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Admission to Science Gateway is free, but registration is required.
- For groups (12 to 48 visitors), online registration is mandatory, up to 9 months in advance.
- Due to high demand, early booking is strongly recommended.
- Groups (12 to 48 visitors) can visi
Getting here
1, Esplanade des Particules
1217 Meyrin
Switzerland
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Seize the data
Your name, address, age, favourite colour, favourite particle, the signal in a particle detector, the distance between two cars … What do these things have in common? They are all data – and there is a lot of that everywhere. A LOT! In this show we will take some of that data and try to make something nice out of it.
Journey through a detector
Particle physicists are almost like detectives without magnifying lenses and weird hats. Both rely on their deduction powers to find the culprit who left weird tracks. Which particle was it? Where did it come from? And, if no one really saw it, was it ever really there? On our Journey Through a Detector, we will explore the world of particle detectors by following particles through different detector layers and discovering how they help us see the invisible.
Mysteries of Matter
Come and marvel at simple and entertaining experiments, often bordering on the magical, which demonstrate different states of matter and magnetism in a fun way. Break a rubber tube with a hammer? Levitate a magnet? It's not magic, it's science!