The Palace of Wonders in Buda, part of the capital of Hungary, has become the next stone in the mosaic of the Creative Factory project. It will be placed in the City Exhibition Center in the Barracks/Culturpark grounds. This will be reconstructed as part of the Košice - European Capital of Culture 2013 project. U. S. Steel Kosice organized a visit to the Palace of Wonders in Budapest on November 16th for experts from the Technical University and Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, who together with scientists from Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Kosice will be the leading creators of the Creative Factory exhibition.

Science toys and interactive attractions have already fascinated children and adults in the former factory building for fifteen years. On average 200 000 curious visitors come to see it each year from all over Hungary and abroad. The Palace of Wonders has become fully self-financing, as its entire operation is financed from entry fees. Although the City of Košice is not comparable with Budapest in its size and population, the developers of the Creative Factory exhibition in Culturpark have calculated that if about 45 000 visitors visit it yearly, the Creative Factory will be economically successful as well as that in the metropolis of our southern neighbors.

The main organizer of the exhibition - U. S. Steel Košice - has set up a team of co-workers, who started these days to work on achieving the main objective of Creative Factory: Increasing the interest of children and young people in technical sciences through practical experience and retelling about the dominant story of steel. Steel because it is the main product of the largest manufacturing plant not only in Kosice but also in eastern Slovakia. The story of steel, from the location of the deposits of iron ore in the country to its multiple opportunities to present illustrative recycling, will be presented in an engaging way with help of the latest technologies, so that visitors to the Creative Factory find out more about steel and its uses than they could in the real operation.
U. S. Steel Košice prepared for the 15 registered participants a full-day excursion at production facilities of the complete metallurgical cycle on December 2nd. This inspiring event can also contribute to setting up the original science center in Kosice, which will have a unique place in the international network of similarly-designed facilities.

More information about Palace of Wonders http://www.millenaris.hu/

Source: www.koalicia2013.eu