At the kind invitation of Katarina Pocedić, senior curator and museum pedagogue from the History Museum of Istria, our PEEK&POKE museum is going to visit Pula! As 2010 is the Year of Communication, the History Museum of Istria (PMI) will open the exhibition “TI VIDIO (You Saw) – the evolution of communication through computers” with …
It’s Hartera Music Festival week in Rijeka, so to be in the occasional music trend we at PEEK&POKE will present a handmade electronic musical instrument – theremin. The theremin is widely regarded as the world’s first electronic musical instrument. It’s controlled without physical contact by performer – the thereminist. The device itself is an electronic …
Whenever human civilization takes a big step forward, there are those who challenge what has been done and see the hidden motives and conspiracy theories. One of the eternal themes is have we been to the Moon at all? Lately, high-definition photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the Apollo landing sites have …
On June 26th, 2009 at 6 p.m. in PEEK&POKE, a teacher and the most famous Croatian astronomer, Korado Korlević, will hold a lecture. Korado Korlević is the manager of the Višnjan Observatory, from which he discovered thousands of asteroids and thus gained a great international reputation. Also, he ranks among the world’s top 20 discoverers of minor …
On June 26, 2009 begins a 3-day-long school of spacecraft model building held by Model Building Association Zeppelin. The school is intended for our younger audiences and is a part of our Peek@Moon program. Everyone is welcome and there are no attendance fees!
Vuk Ćosić is cosmopolitan artist with Balkan roots, social media strategist and whatnot! He’s one of the pioneers of net.art and a “hacker of ideas”, totally incapable of showing reverence towards the formalities of the art world. For a particular group of artists working in the mid-90s, the possibilities opened up by internet access were …
On June 19, 2010 at 8 p.m., in PEEK&POKE, Croatian physicist prof. dr. sc. Ivo Orlić will hold a lecture titled “How do physicists measure dimensions of subatomic particles?”. Ivo Orlić is a professor of nuclear physics at the Department of Physics, University of Rijeka. He worked for over twenty years at institutes and universities …
As a part of our two-months-long program Peek@Moon, our youngest audiences and everyone who feels that way, will be able to play interesting educational games throughout the month of June in PEEK&POKE. Those games include Sunčica in Space by a Croatian developer 32bit and The Ward and Spaceforce by a Croatian software developer Provox.
Zoran Krušvar is a Croatian psychologist and science fiction and fantasy writer, born in Rijeka. He won 4 SFERA awards, in 2002 (for “Igra” – “The Game”), in 2003 (for “Brodovi u tami” – “Ships in Darkness”), in 2007 (for “Izvršitelji nauma Gospodnjeg” – “Executors of the Lord’s Plan”) and in 2008 (for “Tako biti …