Museum of Science and Technology
The Elder Museum of Science and Technology—Museo Elder de la Ciencia y la Tecnología—takes its name from the shipping company Elder Dempster Lines, the original owners of the building it occupies in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. That firm was founded in 1878 by two Scottish entrepreneurs: Alexander Elder and John Dempster. From this base in Gran Canaria, the company transported bananas to Britain, linking the island’s produce trade to industrial-scale shipping. The museum itself opened to the public in December 1999, and it has grown around four floors of hands-on science. You’ll find exhibitions covering technology, physics, mathematics, geology, biology, medicine, and astronomy, plus a digital planetarium. The collection includes a steam locomotive dating from 1885, models of steamships and a marine diesel engine, and even a Northrop F-5 fighter jet aircraft. …
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