Smartphones are about so much more than Instagram, Snapchat and games. The Dynamikum app turns the various sensors of a smartphone into research tools. Visitors can use them to go on a discovery tour and measure acceleration, sound waves, air pressure and much more at the stations along the itinerary. Controlled by beacon technology, a hologram of blogger and YouTuber Phil (Phil’s Physics) appears intermittently. In short knowledge clips, he demonstrates various phenomena. The app can also be used outside: There are no limits to the joy of experimentation. The tools work everywhere and many experiments are also suitable for school. Your own videos and photos can be uploaded and shared.

A host of optimised and new exhibits on the subject of sports and biomechanics await the visitors at the new edition of the Dynamikum, encouraging active experimentation, involvement, and exploration. The topic of sports in particular is given new prominence. Videos illustrate the acceleration involved in gymnastics, skateboarding and other sports. With the movement type, you can see yourself looking pretty athletic too.

Want to experience a mountain bike tour up close or even a roller coaster ride? The Motion Base is a very special highlight in the newly designed exhibition area ‘Sports and Movement’. Thanks to the combination of films and a tilting platform, visitors can experience for themselves what acceleration forces feel like. The key feature: With the Dynamikum app, they can record films with acceleration data anywhere and everywhere and then replay them on the Motion Base. This way, visitors not only see their journeys, but actually feel them! In live mode, visitors can also move their smartphones to directly control the Motion Base. Here, the key Dynamikum themes ‘I move something’ and ‘I move myself’ come together in a surprising ‘Something moves me’.