Family Days Ostern 2025

Deep Space Special: Though the Galaxy with Tardigrades

A tardigrade doesn’t need a spacesuit to survive! We borrow its superpowers and travel virtually through space. We visit the International Space Station (ISS), a Mars rover on Mars and fly to distant solar systems.
Open Workshop: Easter on the eI esS esS

How do astronauts experience the Easter holidays on the International Space Station (ISS)? Discover the secrets of the universe and get to know the BBC micro:bit – a small microcontroller that you can use to learn how to program.
Open Workshop: Hack the Egg

Join us for the big Easter workshop at the Ars Electronica Center! Design colorful Easter eggs and equip them with self-programmed micro:bit trackers. This will make the Easter nest hunt a breeze this year!
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: 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”.
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.