Family Days Easter 2024

Presentation: Feeding the Tardigrades

Yes, you read that right, we have tardigrades at the Ars Electronica Center – lots of them! And they are particularly interesting from a scientific point of view, because they can cope with very adverse conditions. They don’t even need an astronaut suit to survive in space. We naturally want to nurture and care for…
Open Workshop: Spring meadow to throw

Just one meadow flower can feed up to ten insects, such as butterflies, bees or bumblebees – but many areas, especially in cities, are not greened. Help make our world greener and more colorful! In this workshop, we mix flower and herb seeds, clay and water. From these we will form Seedbombs for greening traffic…
Open Workshop: The colorful kitchen laboratory

In this workshop, we will not be mixing Easter colors in a paint box, but in the laboratory. The kitchen is very similar to a laboratory – we weigh, mix and change chemicals. We take food from the kitchen and the experiment instructions from the lab and get colorful! What does your favorite color actually…
Open Workshop: Lots going on in the moss

Slipper, eyelash, trumpet and bear are the names of the small animals in the microcosm. Moss is a particularly pleasant place to live, so soft and cuddly, which is why nematodes, larvae, bacteria and even slipper, ciliated, trumpet and tardigrade animals cavort there. You can’t see them with the naked eye, but, if you’re lucky,…
Open Workshop: Eggbot

Decorate Easter eggs together with your children – not by hand not by hand, but with the help of a robot. First you design your design, which the robot then paints onto the eggs with a steady “hand”. Promotion with the Upper Austria Family Cardadditional 50 % discountParent: €5.50 (instead of €11)Child: €2.50 (instead of…
Family Tour: Where is Tardi?

Trying out, participating and thinking is the motto at the Ars Electronica Center when the tiny, lovable tardigrade Tardi takes the whole family on a thrilling journey of adventure through the museum. Discover the Ars Electronica Center with Tardi and your whole family in an entertaining way. Promotion with the Upper Austria Family Cardadditional 50…