What to expect
The permanent exhibition at Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos is called “Do Astrolábio ao GPS”, connecting older navigation instruments with modern ways of finding a route. Children can investigate how sailors used the stars, try a voyage-planning game and experiment with semaphore communication. Other areas introduce knots and a submarine setting. These are practical, participatory themes, giving families something to try together instead of treating the visit as a sequence of display cases.
The centre also uses outdoor gardens with a lighthouse and ship theme. That makes it helpful to plan for both an indoor exhibition and some weather-dependent time outside. Additional workshops, making activities and family programmes appear in the centre’s calendar, and the ticket office distinguishes different visit options. Choose around the exhibition and any particular booked session you want, rather than expecting every piece of specialist equipment to be available on demand. The address is Rua Dr. Faria e Silva in Lagos, so this can be incorporated into a town day without travelling to an outlying leisure park.
- Also known as
- Lagos Science Centre · Lagos Living Science Centre · Centro Ciencia Viva Lagos
Planning your visit
- Navigation-themed permanent exhibition at Rua Dr. Faria e Silva, 34.
- The visit includes indoor rooms and outdoor gardens.
- Check the ticket type if adding a scheduled family workshop.