Next to the river Fervença, the Ciência Viva Center is an innovative building, with bioclimatic architecture solutions, allowing young people, in a playful way and through experiences, to know better and explore the natural environment. The adjacent Casa da Seda, memory of an important regional industry, is installed in an old water mill where lectures on scientific dissemination are given.

The Centro de Ciência Viva is located where, in 1914, in the middle of the Great War, the French engineer Lucien Guerche installed a power plant.
A project by the Italian architect Giulia Appolonia, the Living Science Center integrates innovative solutions to air-condition the indoor environment and save energy, through a system that works as a living module and where visitors can, in real time and through new technologies, visualize the behavior of the various building control systems.
The permanent exhibition modules are dedicated to science, more specifically to the region’s geological and biological heritage, dominated by the Montesinho Natural Park, as well as energy, the environment and recycling.

The center also includes the Casa da Seda, recovered with the original features of an old mill, integrating elements of local and regional memory with new content for scientific dissemination.

Fonte: https://turismo.cm-braganca.pt/tradicoes-e-experiencias/museus/geo_artigo/centro-ciencia-vivahttps://www.visitportugal.com/pt-pt/content/centro-ciencia-viva-de-braganca