Lagos

Science Centre • Lagos, Faro

In the centre of Lagos, overlooking Avenida dos Descobrimentos, the Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos brings science close to the city’s maritime history. Housed in Casa Fogaça, an 18th-century manor house, it combines the memory of the building with a contemporary visual language, marked on the façades by cubes and illusion discs. The permanent exhibition, “From the Astrolabe to GPS”, links the great ocean voyages to the science of navigation, exploring themes such as cartography, shipbuilding and astronomy in the 15th and 16th centuries. In addition to its indoor galleries, the centre has almost 2,000 square metres of outdoor spaces dedicated to science, including the Lighthouse Garden and the Discoveries Garden, both facing the bay of Lagos. Among instruments, experiments and interactive modules, this is a place where the past of voyages becomes questioning, observation and discovery.