EXPLORE experiments, buildings and sites

Discover the amazing properties of vacuum: objects change shape, sound becomes inaudible and feathers fall as fast as lead. Visitors will also be able to see rarefied gas plasmas.

SM18

Step back in time, retrace CERN's history and discover, with amazing video-mapping technology, how CERN's first accelerator, the Synchrocyclotron, worked between 1957 to 1990.

Meyrin

The entire Universe is made up of particles. But where do they come from? What laws govern their behaviour? Delve into contemporary physics and discover the history of the Universe from the Big Bang to the present day. This exhibition can be visited throughout the year, see visit.cern.

Point 1 - ATLAS

Ultra-high vacuum is ten trillion times less dense than the Earth's atmosphere. Discover the challenges that we have to overcome to create and maintain this low density of matter, a little piece of interstellar space right under your feet.

Meyrin