Throughout the year, the Electropolis Museum offers specially tailored events and services for families: demonstrations at the electrostatic theatre, multimedia projections showing the imposing Sulzer-BBC machine, exhibition space to discover what is hidden behind your power sockets (children 5-12), playground in the energy garden (children 8-12).
Advantages for families: family rate, museum entirely accessible to pushchairs, baby-change area and bottle warmer (ask at reception), vending machines for drinks and sweets, tables and benches in the energy garden.
Our activities
The Electrostatic theatre
Wimshurst machine, Faraday cage: “hair-raising” experiences await at the electrostatic theatre!
- From 7 years old
- Approximate duration: 30 mins
- 2 to 3 sessions per day depending on the season, ask at reception.
English and German translations of the event are available at reception.
Electricity: What's behind the power socket?
Learn where electrical current comes from and how it circulates, see the different components of a battery and a bulb: more than 20 interactive games and recreational experiences to unlock the mysteries of electricity!
- From 6 years old
- An exhibition co-produced by the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie and EDF
The great Sulzer-BBC machine
Several times a day, a multimedia show exhibits the exceptional 170 tonne steam machine, the jewel of Mulhouse’s industrial heritage. Choice of languages: French, English and German.
- From 7 years old
- Duration: 12 mins
Have fun with light
The new exhibition area "An electric future" has several interactive devices for families:
- recreate graffiti patterns using the technique of light painting,
- write or draw with LED lights on a wall of phosphorescent paint,
- fall under the spell of the illuminated picture display (for 3 to 5 year olds).