FROM TARTU UNIVERSITY IN 1632 TO AHHAA SCIENCE CENTRE IN 2010 Tiiu Sild, Estonia NSCF Annual Conference Heureka

TARTU? ESTONIA? TARTU

A SMALL CITY IN A SMALL COUNTRY Swedish rule : progress of education ensured that this period became imprinted as 'the good old Swedish time' in the Estonian collective memory. A woodcut from 1582, depicting the Muscovites' terror in Livonia. Dorpat 1553 >>

AN UNIVERSITY IN DORPAT The University of Tartu (Academia Gustaviana) was founded in 1632 by the Swedish King Gustavus II Adolphus. The first students were enrolled in April 1632.

DORPAT >> JURJEV the university in Tartu was reopened as a Kaiserliche Universität zu Dorpat. Alexander I gave the university the legal status of a Russian state university with German as the language of instruction. In the wave of russification from 1889, Tartu was named Jurjev and University was converted into Imperatorskij Jurjevskij Universitet. The language of instruction was Russian.

Some researchers at Tartu University Moritz Hermann Jacobi, the inventor of galvanoplastics; Karl Ernst von Baer, the founder of the theory of evolution and contemporary embryology; Wilhelm Ostwald (Nobel prize 1909), the founder of physical chemistry and discoverer of salt effects; Alexander Schmidt, the founder of the fermentation theory of blood coagulation and blood transfusion principles...

JURJEV >DORPAT >TARTU… In the spring of 1918, Russian university was closed down and German occupation forces opened the Landesuniversität in Dorpat. In 1919 the university opened its doors as Tartu University of the Republic of Estonia with Estonian as the language of instruction. Tartu in 1912

Again Jurjev? Or Dorpat? Or what? Tartu State University, Soviet time: scientific contacts with Western European universities were interrupted.Curricula were replaced by the common syllabi of the Soviet Union based on the Marxist-Leninist ideology German occupation > Ostland- Universität in Dorpat was planned to serve the whole Baltic area (German as the language of instruction). Taking into consideration the needs of the time, the university was still opened with instruction in Estonian.

GOOD OLD SOVIET TIME?? again the Soviet time and Tartu State University. Political cataclysms and repressions affected university. In May 1950 one of the major symbols of the old university – the monument to Gustav II Adolf, the King of Sweden – was removed. It is 1932 – they could not expect it

Gustav II Adolf was still there! Students preserved the ideals and traditions of the "student kingdom" of Tartu alive. The monument of Gustav II Adolf was built again and again… from snow. What about KGB!?

INTERACTIVE MATHEMATICS In 1979 we celebrated Tartu University 175… … but in 2007 we celebrated Tartu University 375!

ALMA MATER TARTUENSIS 1989 – Tartu University was restored as the university of the Republic of Estonia with most of the old traditions. Tartu University is still symbolised by the statue of Gustav II Adolf, which was re-erected on its original site in 1992 to defend the continuity of Alma Mater Tartuensis. 378 years...

Tartu University 2010 in Figures 9 faculties, 5 colleges 17,400 students 35 doctoral programmes doctoral students 3500 employees academic employees (180 professors) 46 partner universities in 18 countries GOLDEN TIMES ARE BACK?

Aha, and what about AHHAA! AHHAA was initiated by Tartu University in September 1st, 1997 as a first science centre project in the Baltics. In 2004, the special Science Centre AHHAA Foundation was created by Estonian Government, the University of Tartu and the City of Tartu. University History Museum

OLD OBSERVATORY Struve! Fraunhofer! Öpik! Chemistry! Physics! Biology!

HEUREKA! …. History! Communication! Geography!...

ASTRONOMY, PLANETARIUMS Starlab ZEISS SKP-2

JUST HAVING FUN WITH LASERS, BUBBLES AND ROBOTS … Robot Darwin came from London

AHHAA NEW BUILDING? REALLY? WHERE? 2004!

BUT HOW TO BUILD A SCIENCE CENTRE??

SCIENCE CENTRES >> EXPO Kensington Christal Palace >>> London Natural Science Museum EXPO in San Francisco >>> Exploratorium AHHAA’s exhibit: Estonian interactive floor from Lisbon EXPO 1998 EXPO in Brussels >> Atomium

BUILDING INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS EVERGREEN IDEAS! EXPLORATORIUM; EXPERIMENTARIUM, HEUREKA

LIVING ANIMALS Porcupine at Science North, Canada Transgenic mouse at AHHAA

AHHAA SCIENCE DAYS SCIENCE FESTIVALS IN EDINBURGH; GENOVA; PERUGIA.... TO THE SCHOOLS; OPEN AIR EVENTS

SCIENCE SHOWS COOOOL! TEKNORAMA, EXPERIMENTARIUM, HEUREKA...

TARTU SCIENCE FESTIVAL STARTED IN 2006

WORKSHOPS Norwegian DNA code Estonian DNA code

CSI-LABORATORIES AT AHHAA Eye dissection Idea from the Discovery Center, California

RESEARCHERS’ NIGHT IN ESTONIA FROM 2006 European Commission

AHHAA SCIENCE CAFE´S Dr Susan Blackmoore BRITISH COUNCIL, INSTITUTE OF GERMAN CULTURE

GOING INTERNATIONAL South Korea 2009

FINDING NEW PARTNERS Estonian Ministry of Defense

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION CONFERENCES September 11, 2010 ECSITE, NSCF, IPS, ICOM conferences

AHHAA 4D CINEMA Opened in Tartu July 2008 Two special 4D ride movies are produced in for AHHAA: topics AIDS/HIV and Tartu city

March 2009: AHHAA MOVED TO A LARGE SHOPPING CENTRE

AHHAA EXHIBITION OPEN NOW EVERY DAY JUST NOW: DIALOGUE IN DARK

2009: AHHAA TALLINN OPENED August 20, 2009 AHHAA new guides

AHHAA 4D CINEMA No 2 November 2009: AHHAA 4D Tallinn opened

AHHAA NEW BUILDING January 2010

MAY 2010 AHHAA!

VISITORS LEARN AT SCIENCE CENTRES – NO DOUBT! Thank you all!

AHHAA GOT VISITORS LAST YEAR (2009) visitors - exhibitions in Tartu and Tallinn, workshops, science festival, science café’s, Researchers’ Night etc visitors at AHHAA 4D two cinemas

THANK YOU!