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Science Museum and Hemisfèric: tickets, hours and the visit
Hands-on science in a building by Santiago Calatrava, and a film under a dome 24 metres wide. Here is how to choose your ticket.
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Opening hours for every month are on the Opening hours page.
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In short
- The Science Museum and the Hemisfèric stand next to each other in the City of Arts and Sciences, both designed by Santiago Calatrava. The Museum is open every day except 25 December, the Hemisfèric works with film sessions.
- The Museum is the longer visit: allow about three hours. From November 2026 to 19 March 2027 it closes at 18:00 from Sunday to Thursday and at 19:00 on Friday and Saturday. In summer 2027 it stays open until 21:00.
- The Hemisfèric is a film or planetarium session, usually of 45 to 50 minutes, under a concave screen 24 metres wide. You cannot enter once a session has started, so arrive 15 minutes early.
- Short on time? Choose the Hemisfèric alone. A full morning? Take the Science Museum. Want both, or the aquarium as well? Take a combined ticket.
The Science Museum: a building to explore
The Museum is 220 metres long and 55 metres high, with about 26,000 square metres of exhibits spread over several floors, surrounded by water. Inside you find the Foucault Pendulum hanging from the top of the building, an ant's nest and a forest of chromosomes that shows the 23 pairs of the human genome.
Space, Nobel Prizes and a theatre of science
On the third floor there is a space simulator that walks you towards the International Space Station and an exhibit about weightlessness made with the European Space Agency. The second floor tells a century of Nobel Prizes, and on the first floor the Science Theatre runs live demonstrations.
The Hemisfèric: an eye over the water
Opened on 16 April 1998, the Hemisfèric was the first building of the complex. Its roof is more than 100 metres long and looks like an enormous eye, with a pool of 24,000 square metres around it. Inside, the hall has more than 300 seats and a concave screen of 900 square metres.