From Galileo's telescope to space telescopes
29 June – 30 September 2012.
Exhibition commissioner: Dr. Maciej Kluza
Exhibition co-ordinator: Elżbieta Skromak
Owner of the exhibition: Jagiellonian University Museum
The exhibition presents the evolution of instruments for observing the sky. An important place in the exhibition is occupied by the accessories that enabled the telescope to be transformed from an observational device into a measuring instrument. Numerous interactive installations facilitate the understanding of how telescopes work and how they are used. Historical telescopes and telescopes as well as reproductions, prints and prints perfectly illustrate the changes in methods of astronomical observation over the past 400 years.