Pop-Up Auststellung
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From exciting installations and interactive experiments
Whether it’s a sorting game on the topic of plastic and sustainability, homemade table tennis ball machines or a journey through the inventions and discoveries of female scientists, our pop-up exhibitions are as diverse as science itself. A pop-up exhibition can last anywhere from one week to two months, but one thing is certain: it disappears as quickly as it appeared.
This special form of temporary exhibition gives both large and small projects the opportunity to share their results with our visitors. Always new, always flexible and never boring. Be part of this unique exhibition format and discover the diversity of our pop-up exhibitions.
Current pop-up exhibitions
Ball Kid Master 2025
from January 22 to February 15, 2026
From January 22 to February 15, 2026, the EXPERIMINTA Science Center in Frankfurt will host the pop-up exhibition “Ball Kid Master 2025.” The exhibition will present selected results from a start-up project at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS). As part of this project, first-year students in the mechanical engineering bachelor’s programs demonstrated their technical skills, creativity, and teamwork right at the start of their studies.
In the 2025/2026 winter semester, the students worked in groups to develop kits for remote-controlled ball collection vehicles designed specifically for children aged 8 to 12. The goal was to design a vehicle that helps young table tennis players collect balls, is easy to operate, and at the same time clearly conveys basic technical principles. The exact method of collecting the balls was left up to the teams, resulting in a variety of creative solutions.
A special focus of the project was on sustainability and upcycling. In addition to specified technical components, the students worked with a limited budget and specifically used materials that would otherwise not have been reused. This resulted in functional prototypes that combine technology, design, and responsible use of resources.
Experience technology, compare designs, discover ideas
During the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to view the various vehicles up close, compare their designs, and discover how different technical problems can be solved.
Action Day: Participation expressly encouraged
A particularly attractive highlight is the Action Day on Saturday, February 14, 2026. From 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the exhibition will be transformed into a hands-on exhibition:
On a specially constructed playing field, visitors will be able to control and try out selected ball collection vehicles themselves.
Students from Frankfurt UAS will accompany guests, explain their projects, answer technical questions, and provide insights into the development process.
Past pop-up exhibitions
To mark the United Nations International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, the ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter Cluster of Excellence at the Universities of Würzburg and Dresden presented the travelling exhibition RETHINKING PHYSICS.
It featured portraits of established and emerging female researchers who talked about their enthusiasm and fascination for scientific work, their successes and their goals.
The ‘Mini Akku Racing’ project by first-year mechanical engineering students at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences combines the art of engineering, the spirit of discovery and a lot of fun.
The challenge was to design and build a kit for a vehicle powered solely by a standard cordless screwdriver. The results can be seen here from 6 January to 3 February 2025. Experience innovative technology up close and discover how simple materials can be turned into impressive racing vehicles. Each vehicle is designed for easy assembly and disassembly – perfect for young inventors!
Special highlight: Hands-on activity on 18 January
On 18 January, you can try out the vehicles for yourself! Students from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences will be on hand to present their creations and give an exciting insight into how they are built and how they work. Fun for all the family!
When: 6 January – 3 February 2025
Where: Experiminta Science Centre
From 20 April to 2 June 2024, the artist Alwin Dorok asked himself the fundamental question of what makes a picture a picture, or what painting is. He came to the conclusion that any kind of painting, regardless of content or style, can be reduced to three elements: Form, colour and style.
In the pop-up exhibition, Alwin Dorok showed more recent works that primarily deal with the metrics and rhythm of stripes in interplay with the basic form, the square, or squares among each other.
What exactly is a table tennis ball machine and how do you build one? This was the question asked by mechanical engineering students from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, and pupils from the Elisabethenschule Frankfurt, an Experiminta cooperation school.
They tinkered and built things out of recycled materials. And they came up with some amazing results. Mechanical engineering at first hand.
From Tuesday 27.02.2024 to Thursday 11.04.2024 we will be showing the results in our pop-up exhibition Ing Pong.
And if you want to try out the table tennis ball machines for yourself, you can join us live on Saturday 6 April 2024 from 10:30 to 17:30 at the Action Day. Let the students explain the ball machines to you and shoot a few table tennis balls yourself.
Our first pop-up exhibition is waiting to be discovered. From Monday 11.12.2023 to Friday 15.12.2023 the results of the project “Think plastic-free, act sustainably” of the Gymnasium Süd in Frankfurt a. Main – in cooperation with the Umwelt-Exploratorium – can be explored in our ScienceCenter EXPERIMINTA.
Plastics are part of our everyday lives, which is why it is becoming increasingly important to raise awareness of sustainable consumption. This project, created as part of the European Week for Waste Reduction, aims to do just that.
A shelf of packaging alternatives showcases the students’ creative solutions. This is complemented by exciting exhibits from the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF in Darmstadt. These show what is exciting and new in plastics research and development.
But the key question is: how can we put all this into practice? Join us and students from Frankfurt’s Gymnasium Süd to discover what it means to consume sustainably. Explore the pros and cons of plastics and discover the results of this innovative project in our pop-up exhibition “Think plastic-free, act sustainably”.
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