the museu do universo, features sundials, a foucault's pendulum showing that the earth is moving, and other permanent and temporary displays - it offers 56 interactive experiments which explain astronomical concepts in captivating ways, allowing the public to learn in an interactive manner.

the experiments are divided into a number of distinct areas including earth and its motion, space and time, stellar astronomy.

the two operating domes, the carl sagan dome and the galileu galilei dome, can both produce reliable projections of the conditions of the sky through all seasons and latitudes.