There are few things better, if you want to trigger a scientific curiosity in children in Goa, than a visit to the Goa Science Centre.
With a diversity of games and exciting things todo, all of them rooted to scientific principles, the Centre sees a beeline of school students every day. Located right next to the Miramar beach and with a five acre campus, the Centre is a great fun as well as an educative option for an outing, especially if there are children with you.
The best part about the Goa Science Centre is not that all the scientific, but fun-filled demonstrations are conducted indoors. There are a whole range of outdoor activities too, which explain basic physics and other scientific principles in an engaging manner. For example, which child would not like to learn how the scientific principle behind a pulley works, when he or she is being lifted up by the gravity-defying gadget?
The basic aim of the centre is to make science fun for children and that it does with aplomb. What’s more, there is also a digital Planetarium on the grounds of the Goa Science Centre, where you can be intimate with space and all the interstellar bodies.
Daily shows are organised at the Planetarium and it would be best if you could call and book yourselves on one. There are also daily 3-D film shows, science film shows and cyber lab shows at the Centre.
Goa Science Centre
Miramar, Goa
Contact: +918322463426
Museum of Christian Art
The Museum of Christian Art was founded in 1994 and was the first of it's kind in Asia. It was earlier located in Rachol, Salcette before being relocated to its present site in the Convent of Santa Monica, Old Goa, close to a few other world heritage monuments.
A project of the Archdiocese of Goa, the museum houses a unique collection of Christian art dating as far back at the 16th century. Most of these pieces were introduced to Goa after the Portuguese invasion whereupon the missionaries set about spreading evangelisation.The objects include sculptures in in ivory, wood, clay depicting images of Christ on the cross, of Virgin Mary under different invocations, of saints and angels.
Apart from the Indo- Portuguese connect, what is also interesting about these objects is the Indian touch to it as plenty of local artists who copied these objects added their own style to these European objects of art. Some of the interesting pieces among the collection include a painting of St. Ursula which once adorned the walls of the Se Cathedral of Old Goa, an image of Jesus the Good Shepherd carved out of ivory and a bust of St. Margaret.
Timings: 9.30am to 5 pm
Entrance fees :Rs. 30/- per Adult, Rs. 10/- per student, children below 12 years “ free.
