Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

Until 10th October, the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia will be hosting Fashion Art, an exhibition that aims to analyse the cultural interaction and aesthetic references between the visual arts and fashion design.
The exhibition brings together a collection of over 40 hand-painted dresses that blend fashion and design with the visual arts. Fashion Art, located in the Calle Mayor section of the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, is arriving in Europe for the first time, having travelled to several Latin American cities such as Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Santiago de Chile, among others.
Artists from Latin America and Spain have used fabrics [...]

Teatro de la Electricidad is at the Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe in Valencia until the 13-11-2010.
In front of an auditorium with an audience of fifty or so and on a stage that simulates the laboratory of a scientist/inventor, a scientific entertainer is attempting to improve their understanding of concepts related to physical phenomena that produce electricity.
Bells that ring without touching them, candles that go out with a metallic wand without the need to blow, jumping rings, electric arcs that cross space, or neon tubes that light up on touching their ends are some of the experiences that will literally make your [...]

The Museum of the City of Valencia is currently showing the exhibition “”En el camino”, in which the artist Horacio Silva shapes the impressions that a trip to China gave him.
Horacio Silva has confessed that, at the outset, when they proposed to him this exhibition, he had doubts, a thought that is recognized like one of the majors errors of its race because at present it is enchanting to make this sample.
Although the subject of the exhibition is appellant, the trips continue being a constant for this artist. The exhibition houses pictures not only from the trip to China, but also of others. [...]

The Fine Arts Museum is currently showing the exhibition “The birth of a painting from the visible to the invisible
This exhibition, through high-resolution infrared reflectography shows underlying drawings made before applying layers of colour from a select group of artists, Spanish, Italian and Flemish from the XV and XVI. These great painters of the past were unable to imagine that future researchers would get look at their designs, which reveal the personality of their strokes, full of vigor and beauty.
The study of these drawings, which have remained hidden for so many years  helps determine the tools and painting materials used by artists, [...]

The Museum of Natural Sciences of Valencia is the perfect place for a photographic exhibition “First Ladies, Women in emergency situations” (“First Ladies. Mujeres en situación de emergencia”)
The women are the first to suffer when the power of the army ruins a society. At the same time, they are powerful: they assure the survival of their family and assume the main sustenance tasks and refuge. For that reason, these women are our “First Ladies”.
Histories of these “First Ladies” have been picked up by three famous Dutch photographers in three contexts, women who have been affected by the war or the insecurity of it:

L’Hemisfèric in Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences invites you to dive into the mysterious waters of Arabia, a fantastic adventure that will take you to the lost city of Madain Saleh.
This unique building shaped to symbolise a big human eye is a window to the outside, a balcony that will allow you to glimpse at other worlds and have incredible experiences thanks to the shows, projections and activities held regularly in its facilities.
The projection room, which can seat over 300 people, has a 900 square metre concave screen, 24 metres in diameter, which will allow you to enjoy to the full Arabia, [...]

Science and science fiction come together from the 22nd July to the 22nd February 2011 on the third floor of the Science Museum at the City of Arts and Sciences.
There will be a massive “Star Trek” exhibition which will give visitors the chance to see real props and costumes from this legendary series for the first time ever in Europe, in a meticulously assembled set that will beam them up to the star ship ‘Enterprise’
The replica of the bridge, a flight simulator, models and real objects can all be seen in the exhibition on this series that actually did see into the future [...]

On your first visit to the city of Valencia and to the Museo Fallero, located in a former Vincentian convent, you may find it hard to understand what exactly a falla is and what this Museum means.
Basically, fallas can be described as satirical monuments. They are models made of combustible materials (cardboard, wood, etc.) that are erected in public squares and at main crossroads and then burnt on the night of 19 March, St Joseph’s Day.
The monuments are made by specialist falleros with the help and encouragement of resident’s committees in all the different districts that spend the whole year preparing the annual [...]

The Museo de la Ciudad is dedicated to the history of the Valencia area and stands in the Old Quarter.
It houses an archeological collection illustrating the pre-Roman age and the founding of the city, and a part of the municipal art gallery.
The Museo de la Ciudad is a former palace of nobles, currently housing 15th to 20th century art from the collections of the Valencian government and private homes. Almost all of the painting and scupltures are by Valencian artists. Some are good, some are bad, but all are unknown. If you like art you could find this interesting – it is a [...]

The Museo Del Arroz is found in an old rice mill built at the beginning of XX century in the Cabanyal de Valencia district.
The building was restored by the Town Hall, and the machinery renovated by the Polytechnic University so you can observe how rice used to be treated at the beginning of the century.
The museum aims to show you, in a direct and indirect manner, not just the process of transformation from paddy rice fields unfit for consumption, but also to bring a global perspective of the product to include agriculture and consumption of the grain, rooted in their culture.
Rice has [...]