Microcosm (CERN)
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Microcosm is a museum of particle physics located at CERN in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, near the town of Meyrin. It is a very comprehensive museum, covering a broad range of particle physics topics, as well as the entire history of CERN. Exhibits include:
- Explanations of the purpose of CERN and particle physics research in general
- A mock-up, hands-on version of Rutherford's gold foil experiment
- A real-time cosmic ray detector
- A mock-up of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel
- Models and explanations of current and future CERN experiments
- Equipment from old experiments, including a large part of the UA1 detector, which ran at the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN from 1981 to 1984, and helped discover the W and Z bosons.
[edit] Microcosm garden
The Microcosm garden features several large components of old CERN experiments.
 The entire garden |
 The Big European Bubble Chamber |
 An RF cavity from the Large Electron-Positron Collider |
 Initial stages of an old particle accelerator |
