The new headquarters of the Imaginary Science Centre is housed in a building belonging to the cotton mill complex of Torre di Pordenone, originally “Royal Imperial Spinning and Dyeing (1836), then just” Cotton Mill-Olcese Veneziano “(1894). Together with the former cotton mills of Great Rorai,Cotonificio Borgomeduna Amman and the cotton mills of Cordenons Mako-Raetz it was one of the most important Italian cotton industry of the time untili t was closed in the early 80s.

The building that houses the Imaginary Science Centre in the past housed the Dyeries of the Cotton Mills. In 2003 it was bought by the Municipality of Pordenone, who started the restoration works.

As a result, it delegated the cultural, scientific and logistic management to the Imaginary Science centre, with the aim of achieving an innovative and vibrant cultural space. On the model of the Science Centre in Trieste, the new Scientific Imaginary Museum of Pordenone uses a new generation setting and adopts the exhibition techniques typical of interactive and multimedia museums. It uses informal training animation methods. As in other Imaginary Science Centres, special attention is given to young people, in particular students, to whom it offers multiple paths and a rich menu of workshop activities. Depending on the age, needs and available time, the most suitable paths are proposed to the visiting groups, starting from the selection of the multimedia exhibition in the Kaleido section (this option is available thanks to a completely digital technological architecture). In addition to the visits to the exhibitions, primary and secondary schools can choose from a variety of informal educational workshops on biology, chemistry, ecology, physics, mathematics, earth sciences, techniques and measurements: the animators working in the workshops always use simple experimental equipments to explain specific phenomena. The participants are required to take part in workshops, experiment, ask questions and try to answer.