Exhibition "Fiat Lux! Let There Be Light! Physics in School and in Life"

About exhibition

The exhibition continues the museum's "Classroom" project, dedicated to the teaching of various school subjects; this edition focuses on physics. The display presents only two branches of school knowledge: acoustics and optics. The museum's collections on the history of education allow visitors to learn how ideas about physics in school and in everyday life have changed from the late 19th century to the present day. The collection will introduce you to interesting facts about the science itself and the stories behind familiar objects such as the camera, radio, and television. The exhibition of the Museum of Enlightenment recreates the atmosphere of a Soviet school. In the classroom visitors will see an ammeter, textbooks and visual aids for physics, a school film projector, and the telescope used in Omsk to observe the first artificial Earth satellite in October 1957. The central exhibit is the "Belarus-110" telera-diolo (1960s), combining a television, a radio, and a turntable for vinyl records.