The Science Center (Casa de la Ciencia) in the city of Seville, Spain is a center for popularizing science.
The Science Center is housed in the old Pavilion of Peru (Pabellón de Perú), a building of great beauty that was built in the Maria Luisa Park for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. For twenty years the building housed the headquarters of the Biological Station of Doñana and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas en Sevilla (CSIC). In April 2008 the city council of Seville provided a grant to renovate the building to create the Science Center.[1]
A part of the building holds the Consulate General of Peru in Seville.[2] In July 2008 the Peruvian ambassador to Spain signed a 75-year renewal of the assignment by the City of Seville of the Pavilion of Peru to the Republic of Peru and to the CSIC. The CSIC had undertaken to provide a 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft) exhibition space open to the public dedicated to the extension of science in Andalusia.[3]
The building lies on the Avenida Maria Luisa, noted for the Queen's sewing box (Costurero de la Reina), a unique building that takes the form of a small hexagonal castle with turrets at the corners, and the oldest building in Seville in the neomudéjar style.[4] It is between the Seville Public Library, inaugurated in 1999 by the Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, and the Teatro Lope de Vega Sevilla, a small baroque-style theatre that was also built for the exhibition.[5][6]