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May holiday

There’s lots to discover at NEMO Science Museum during the May holidays. Get started in extra workshops, feast your eyes on the Chain Reaction exhibit, and take part in scientific research.

  • 18 April to 5 May
  • All ages
  • Open every day. Closed on King’s Day (27 April)

Welcome to the world of action and reaction

  • A child wearing a blue helmet and a NEMO employee stand in front of an arrangement of various objects that together form a chain reaction

    Chain Reaction

    A spectacular demonstration of potential and kinetic energy. Discover action and reaction, cause and effect in the Chain Reaction.

  • A young boy builds with different materials

    Build your own chain reaction

    Knock over dominoes, set a seesaw in motion, launch a catapult and ring a bell.

Four kids pull on both sides of a rope

Demo: For Sure?!

Discover how you can prove that something is really true and what happens when you put your assumptions to the test. Through impressive and interactive experiments, you will learn how scientists work step by step, with questions, predictions and experiments.

This demo is in Dutch.

Extra workshops

  • Girl in a lab coat drips liquid into a test tube while two boys look on.

    Step into the Laboratory

    Lab coat? Check! Safety glasses? Check! Carry out surprising tests and experiments using everyday objects.

  • A boy makes a construction with wooden posts on a board

    Build a sorting machine

    Discover how smart machines work by building your own sorter that separates large and small objects.

  • A girl is doing a game featuring shapes and patterns

    Puzzle with patterns

    With different shapes, you can create an infinite number of patterns. Try it in a game of Palago!

  • Two girls are looking at materials in a box.

    Guess the device

    Your alarm clock, toaster, telephone: would you recognise everyday devices if they were taken apart?

  • two boys work with electrical wires.

    Make the lamp light up

    Get started with electricity and make an electrical circuit. Can you make the light blub glow.

  • A girl is holding a blue wooden rabbit

    Race with a wooden figure

    Choose a wooden figure and let it race down a slope. See what makes it go faster or slower, and find out the quickest way to get your figure to the bottom.