
Exhibitions
Living Looonger
This exhibition was on display from 19 January 2024 to 5 January 2025.
An exhibition for adults about getting older, staying young and being mortal. How would you want to grow old?
Highlights
Over the past 150 years, human life expectancy has doubled. In 1850, the average life expectancy was 40 years, now it is 80.
Living Looonger zooms in on questions around getting older, staying young and mortality. Can (future) developments in science stop ageing and perhaps even death? What can we do ourselves to grow old as vitally and sprightly as possible? Or should we instead embrace our mortality by giving meaning to our lives instead of constantly putting off death?
In Living Looonger, you can research your biological age, experience hands-on which body parts can be replaced (eventually), delve into the consequences for our society and reflect on our mortality. The exhibition features work by Nina Farkache (Come a little bit closer), Alexia Audrain (The Hugging Chair), Kuang-Yi Ku (Tiger Penis Project) and Lucy McRae's short film Institute of Isolation, among others.
About The Studio
NEMO Science Museum’s Studio is an off-site location at the Marineterrein in Amsterdam. Here, it presents a variety of programmes for adult audiences. This location is a laboratory where NEMO cooperates with partners and the public to devise new, low-threshold and interactive exhibitions and programmes related to socially relevant topics. Read more about The Studio.

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