Wolfsburg Sights

  1. Phaeno

    The glass-and-concrete building that houses the science centre Phaeno is truly cutting edge. Sleek, curved and thin, it looks like a stretchy spaceship from Planet Minimalism. Inside, however, you rarely have time to appreciate the design by British-based Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. The place is full of 250 hands-on physics exhibits and experiments (with instructions and explanations in both German and English) and, frequently it seems, 10 times as many schoolchildren all pulling at them.

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