Where was this exhibition on show ?

02.07.2004 - 31.12.2004:
Special Portuguese adaptation
Fábrica - Centro de Ciência Viva, Aveiro (P)

15.04.2004 - 31.07.2004:
Sala de Exposiciones de la Excma, Diputación Provincial de Lugo (Espagne)

26.09.2003 - 31.12.2003:
Special Portuguese adaptation
Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra (P)

15.07.2003 – 31.01.2004:
Jardì Botànic, Universitat de Valencia
Jardin botanique de l'Université de Valencia (E)

05.11.2002 – 30.05.2003:
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Musée national de science naturelle),  Madrid (E)

16.04.2000 – 12.11.2000:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde (Musée national des sciences naturelles), Karlsruhe (D)

04.10.1999 – 19.03.2000:
Deutsches Brotmuseum (Musée allemand du pain), Ulm (D)

03.03.1999 – 30.08.1999:
Agropolis Museum, Montpellier (F)

27.03.1998 – 10.01.1999:
Alimentarium, Vevey (CH)

The Alimentarium was the Swiss partner in the international "Gene Worlds" project, which also included exhibition houses in Bonn, Dresden, Mannheim und Munich.

Biotechnology, used for thousands of years in the service of food and nutrition, has expanded dramatically thanks to the opportunities opened up by genetic engineering. The Alimentarium temporary exhibition illuminates the various historical factors involved and presents the state of modern biotechnology with reference to concrete examples of microorganisms, plants and farm animals.

Models, audios, films, interactive computer programs and, naturally, lots of original objects bring the subject to life. A talking book with watercolours specially created for the exhibition helps to make the complex life of the cell intelligible.

The exhibition consists of two sections:

"Through the Ages": from the Neolithic to the 20th century

Man is an observer. He seeks out food plants, cultivating and propagating them, and also domesticates and breeds farm animals. He has been intervening in nature for thousands of years—modifying it, shaping it to his needs. The goal has always been the same: to strengthen the food base, to preserve the more resistant and productive plants, and to improve man's more valuable livestock. The technological progress achieved during the 19th and 20th centuries has yielded fascinating insights into a world that had never before been visible to the human eye. The structure of DNA, the knowledge of which has transformed and expanded our understanding of the biological processes taking place within the living cell, was only elucidated some fifty years ago. Molecular tools borrowed from nature now allow more specific and exact interventions in cellular processes. An impressive 3D film takes visitors on a poetic journey of discovery into the cell, as it recounts our present state of knowledge and thinking about the complex dynamics of the smallest unit of life.

"By Way of Example": Working for Tomorrow's World—Into the 21stCentury

High-grade food crops ravaged by pests, weeds and blight, livestock lost to disease: these are urgent challenges that demand swift, sure action all over the world.

All possibilities, from classical breeding to genetically engineered disease resistance, from the use of chemical weed-killers to biological pest management, should be dispassionately examined for environmental compatibility and sustainability and put to use as appropriate. Nothing should be ruled out on ingrained ideological grounds, at the risk of forfeiting valuable strategies from the start. The exhibition illustrates modern bioengineering processes with numerous examples, showing present and future applications and discussing problems to which responsible answers must be found.

More informations (German): http://www2.kah-bonn.de/1/19/0.htm

03.11 - 27.11 2003:
Landwirtschaftsministerium Schwerin
www.schwerin.de
D - 19055 Schwerin

16.09 - 21.09 2003:
Wissenschafts-Sommer Mainz 2003
Kurfürstliches Schloss
D- 55128 Mainz

05.05 - 30.05 2003:
Max Planck Campus - Golm (D)
Pour de plus amples informations:
Dr. Jens Freitag   GABI Geschäftsstelle
c/o Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiolologie
Am Mühlenberg 1  14476 Golm
Tel.: 0331 567  83 01
freitagmpimp-golm.mpg.de

08.01 - 30.04 2003:
Freilandlabor Kaniswall
Kappweg 19
D - 15537 Gosen (près de Berlin)
Tél. / Fax: 03362-82 13 76
Dr. Reiner Hartelt (hartelt.kaniswallgs-kvstd.cidsnet.de)

06.08 - 29.09.2002:
Foyer Kreishaus Vechta
Ravensberger Strasse 20
D - 49337 Vechta

01.05 - 08.06.2002:
Stadtbücherei Heidelberg
Poststrasse 15
D - 69115 Heidelberg
Tél. (06221) 58-3613
Fax (06221) 58-3690
E-mail stadtbuechereiheidelberg.de

14.02 - 07.03.2002:
Stadtwerke Geesthacht GmbH,  Kundenzentrum
Schillerstraße 9, D - 21502 Geesthacht
Tél.: 0 41 52 / 9 29-302 bis -310
Fax: 0 41 52 / 9 29-320
E-Mail: service@stadtwerke-geesthacht