At the Sensorium Museum in the Rüttihubelbad, everything revolves around activating sensory perception. Every year, 60,000 children and adults come into contact with themselves in its ‘Field of Sensory Experience’. Do you want to hear a stone sing? Would you like to see the path with your feet? Do you dare to meet yourself in a pot-bellied mirror? Do you know all the colours of your shadow? Why do yellow and blue suddenly turn orange?
The Sensorium is all about experimenting and experiencing extraordinary phenomena. Children and adults can use all their senses at 70 experience stations over 1500 square metres to hear, see, smell and touch familiar and unfamiliar things. Optical phenomena can be experienced thanks to a multitude of spheres of different sizes and rapidly rotating discs. The scent tree and the dark room evoke memories of familiar odours. Stones, wood and large gongs transform sounds into tangible and audible vibrations. A partner swing allows visitors to experience active togetherness.
In its anniversary year 2024, the Sensorium has realised a new special exhibition on the theme of ‘Life is vibration’. Vibration can make us happy or stress us, lull us to sleep or cause a bridge to collapse; it creates harmony through symmetry or can cause discomfort through dissonance. Interactive stations are designed to make the Sensorium and its audience vibrate.
The Sensorium offers a variety of practical resources for personal life, school, teaching and research. A world-first exhibition in the Sensorium's newly staged ‘Salon Hugo’ sheds light on the life and work of the carpenter, educator and philosopher Kükelhaus, who founded the principle of the ‘field of experience of the senses’.
