At the Sensorium Museum in the Rüttihubelbad, everything revolves around activating sensory perception. Every year, 60,000 children and adults come into contact with themselves in its ‘Field of Sensory Experience’. Do you want to hear a stone sing? Would you like to see the path with your feet? Do you dare to meet yourself in a pot-bellied mirror? Do you know all the colours of your shadow? Why do yellow and blue suddenly turn orange?

The Sensorium is all about experimenting and experiencing extraordinary phenomena. Children and adults can use all their senses at 70 experience stations over 1500 square metres to hear, see, smell and touch familiar and unfamiliar things. Optical phenomena can be experienced thanks to a multitude of spheres of different sizes and rapidly rotating discs. The scent tree and the dark room evoke memories of familiar odours. Stones, wood and large gongs transform sounds into tangible and audible vibrations. A partner swing allows visitors to experience active togetherness.

In its anniversary year 2024, the Sensorium has realised a new special exhibition on the theme of ‘Life is vibration’. Vibration can make us happy or stress us, lull us to sleep or cause a bridge to collapse; it creates harmony through symmetry or can cause discomfort through dissonance. Interactive stations are designed to make the Sensorium and its audience vibrate.

The Sensorium offers a variety of practical resources for personal life, school, teaching and research. A world-first exhibition in the Sensorium's newly staged ‘Salon Hugo’ sheds light on the life and work of the carpenter, educator and philosopher Kükelhaus, who founded the principle of the ‘field of experience of the senses’.

In the special exhibition "Fascination Resonance: Small Impulses – Big Impact", the Sensorium expands its permanent exhibition "Life is Vibration" with impressive phenomena. Discover sound patterns in water, let yourself be enveloped by the sound chair, encounter strangers in conversation, and try playful experiments!

The installations stimulate reflection, provoke questions, and invite you to listen, see, and feel. Resonance is not an abstract concept, but what happens when something within us or around us sets into motion. It often starts subtly with a glance, a conversation, a melody, a moving form in space. With a bench, a bowl, a sound chair, or a block construction. Suddenly, we hear something that touches us, that is mirrored within us, and we respond – by thinking, feeling, conversing, acting, or with a gentle touch.

Five aspects run through the stations:

- Resonance arises when boundaries blur and new things gain space.

- Resonance is encounter – in dialogue with installations or with strangers on the "Resonance Bench".

- It requires responsibility, as every action has consequences.

- Resonance surprises, opens new insights through details and perspectives.

- And it is both individual and collective. The works follow physical principles, but still speak individually to each of us.

Resonate with all stations: approach the installations, listen to them, give them your resonance – and discover what responses people and artworks give back to you. May the phenomenon continue to resonate within you and leave you changed!