Make the first fire and create a nuclear reactor: Energy of Life pavilion
Travel through space and time, collect energy and use it to launch installations.
An exciting adventure in futuristic scenery awaits guests of the Ministry of Energy exposition. Here you can try on the professions of the energy complex and provide electricity for your entire house.
Energy all around
The Energy of Life pavilion is located at a distance from the main expositions, but it’s definitely worth walking the extra five minutes. For starters, it is beautiful: the technological design and spectacular installations capture imagination and serve as the backdrop for the most memorable photographs.
First you need to get a bracelet that will help you launch various activities. This can be done very quickly at the reception desk. By the way, it is decorated with plasma pipes; the energy inside them reacts to touch, so it is difficult to take children away from the unusual art object. But the most interesting thing is yet to come.
In the first hall, visitors will be treated to an immersive show. Viewers take a journey into the past, see how fire was first produced and learn about the development of the energy complex up to the present day. Thanks to the completely immersive effect, it seems that you personally participated in the creation of an atomic reactor and witnessed the splitting of an atom.
Follow Kilowatic
At the exit from the first hall, guests are greeted by the charming Kilowatik. This virtual guide in the world of energy is always ready to help, and at the same time share an interesting fact. Together with him, the guests go to the next room and find themselves in the apartment. But not the usual one.
"We were told that everything here, furniture, mannequins, clothes, carpets and rugs, were made using petrochemical processing. That’s why the hall is called Gifts of Energy. I didn’t even think that everything was so interconnected", one of the visitors, Moscow resident Larisa Popova, said with a laugh.
There are many games at the Energy of Life exposition. For example, you can test your memory strength, test your knowledge of the city’s energy system, and train your logic by laying a pipeline. You can also compete with each other in collecting energy or try to find energy balance by standing on the platform. The last one is perhaps the most difficult — few people manage to maintain balance for more than a couple of seconds.
All the power of the fuel and energy complex
Another unusual entertainment is creating an energy reflection. Approaching a special screen, you can see how your silhouette is formed from energy flows, ready to repeat your every move like a shadow. It looks very unusual.
One of the main exhibits of the pavilion is a huge multimedia map of the domestic fuel and energy sector. Guests can walk along it, activating various elements as they go and launching information blocks on the screen. By the way, some energy facilities can be examined in detail thanks to naturalistic layouts, as well as virtual tours.
At the end of the journey, guests will be treated to one of the most beautiful exhibits — a huge luminous structure in the form of a DNA chain in the Energy of the Future hall. It can be charged with the energy of the bracelet, accumulated during the excursion, and launch a real light show.
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