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Welcome To VISTA
We Make Cutting-Edge Research Accessible.
VISTA Science Experiences – Science education programs and exhibitions by the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. We foster the passion for research and promote interactions between Science and Society.
Science TukTuk
Science For All
The VISTA TukTuk takes Science to the park, to the local Heurigen and to the public pool. Find out about TukTuk stops near you.
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Art & Science Photo Exhibition
HUMAN – MODEL – WORLD
In many ways, imaging technologies have become an extension of our senses: As a versatile scientific tool, they can extend and shape how we understand ourselves, and the worlds around us.
About the Exhibition
VISTA Science Experience Center
Space For More
The ISTA Campus continues to develop: we create space for exchange between research and society.
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The VISTA Mission

Understanding how Science creates knowledge.

If you want to make good decisions, you need to be able to find, sort and evaluate information. That’s what science is all about and how science has been creating solid knowledge for centuries.

VISTA promotes the understanding of science as a process and makes cutting-edge research accessible – to everyone.

More on our mission
Experience Science
All Workshops and Events
school workshop
  • grade 2-4
  • school classes
  • 7-10 years

The Big Bone Hunt

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Peter Rigaud
school workshop
  • grade 8-13
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

Learning from role models - a different kind of career guidance

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Stephanie Kneissl
school workshop
  • 7-19 years
  • grade 2-14
  • school classes

ISTA Experience

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
ISTA Campus
©Stephanie Kneissl
school workshop
  • grade 2-4
  • school classes
  • 7-10 years

Building blocks of life

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Anna Stöcher
school workshop
  • grade 8-13
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

FakeHunter - On the hunt for the truth

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
school workshop
  • grade 9-13
  • school classes
  • 15-19 years

Worm workshop - Research with C. elegans

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Stephanie Kneissl
workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • 7-10 years

Campus Tour and Lab Experience

22.
Jan.
16:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
workshop
Booked out
  • 8-12 years

Seeing the invisible

29.
Jan.
15:00-17:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
Experience Science
All Workshops and Events
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 2-4
  • school classes
  • 7-10 years

The Big Bone Hunt

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Peter Rigaud
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 8-13
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

Learning from role models - a different kind of career guidance

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Stephanie Kneissl
school workshop
school workshop
  • 7-19 years
  • grade 2-14
  • school classes

ISTA Experience

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
ISTA Campus
©Stephanie Kneissl
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 2-4
  • school classes
  • 7-10 years

Building blocks of life

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Anna Stöcher
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 8-13
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

FakeHunter - On the hunt for the truth

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 9-13
  • school classes
  • 15-19 years

Worm workshop - Research with C. elegans

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Stephanie Kneissl
workshop
Booked out
workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • 7-10 years

Campus Tour and Lab Experience

22.
Jan.
16:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
workshop
Booked out
workshop
Booked out
  • 8-12 years

Seeing the invisible

29.
Jan.
15:00-17:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
A look behind the scenes

Science is a process! Here's what's going on at the ISTA campus:

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Article

Gardening for Science

Mutants are growing in one of the basement rooms of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). But instead of monsters, they are small plants that serve as living subjects for science. This is the realm of Dorota Jaworska, the technician at the institute's Plant Facility, who takes care of thousands of small experiments.
Learn more
©ISTA
Experiment

An Insect Vacuum

Hast du dich schon einmal gefragt, warum es so schwierig ist das Wetter, Erdbeben, Verkehr, Asteroidenbahnen oder die nächste Pandemie genau vorherzusagen?
Aspirator: Catching Insects Easily
Game

Virus Alarm in Stayhompton

Explore and understand how viruses spread by re-enacting the spread of a fictional virus in a city.
Start Playing
©Anna Stöcher
Video

Super Smart! The Crazy Experiments Show

How hot is cold? In this episode, Bernhard Weingartner asks the super smart question: How hot is cold? Quantum computers like really low temperatures. That's why the temperature in the lab of Andrea Hofmann, a physicist in Klosterneuburg, is as low as -273 degrees Celsius, which is colder than outer space! But why is that?
Interview

"When you look at the sky and the clouds, it broadens your perspective."

The scientists Yi-Ling Hwong and Andrea Stoellner are cloud scientists. In the interview with c/o magazine they talk about their work
The Cloud Scientists
©Mia Meus
Interview

The Explainers

Do we still understand the highly complex and specialized research of scientists? Why do so many people trust conspiracy theories more than facts? A discussion with Christian Bertsch and Mia Meus from VISTA about how complicated things can be explained simply to laypeople, and why art is pretty good for this.
Interview with Christian Bertsch and Mia Meus

VISTA – this is Science Education made by ISTA. The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) stands for world-class research in the natural sciences. We offer science enthusiasts of all ages the opportunity to experience, discover and understand science.

Get to know us and discover VISTA activities.

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©Anna Stöcher