Sport in mind!

 An exhibition about physical culture

Sport: a travelling exhibition !

Launched in 1999 as a travelling exhibition, and later settling at the Pass, the sport exhibition has so far welcomed over 350,000 visitors during its Belgian tour and on the site. Acclaimed by the public, the exhibition was back at the Pass on December 2003, in a totally new arrangement, even better adapted to a younger audience, more stimulating and surprising than ever.

The exhibition

Have you seen Zidane's banana kick! Whoah, what a basket from Tony Parker! And Justine Hénin's reaction time! What about you, how high can you jump? What muscles do you need to play tennis? Is a tennis shoe like a sprinter's shoe? What's the point of warming up?
Behind all these questions lie science and technology!
Because movements in sport can be explained. Because, to go ever faster, higher, further, sportsmen and women work with scientists and engineers. Sometimes, it goes wrong - they go too far, they get hurt, they cheat...

The "Sport in Mind" exhibition offers about twenty interactive displays giving you a chance to try out sports, explaining and demonstrating the role of science and technology in sporting practice and performance, and measuring the global impact of the phenomenon.

An exhibition over 3 floors:

Sport in Mind is spread over the three floors of the Children's Street: on level 0, warming up and climbing; on level 1, running, jumping, moving and shooting; and on level 2, testing your limits, looking and understanding even better the mechanisms of physical exercise.

Level 0
Space for warming up and learning about why this is important. An 18-metre (60-foot) climbing wall covers the whole height of the Children's Street, so that you can try climbing and feel what transferring your weight means: sensation guaranteed.

Level 1
Stadium atmosphere, bright colours and flood-lighting. You are the sportsmen and women: become a sprinter, try your luck with the banana kick or the throw-in, play at ice dancing, discover the geometry of the football.

Level 2
The stadium is not far away, but here we are in the training room: test your flexibility, relaxation, strength and eyesight, analyse your movements and your equipment, perfect your diet, then discuss performance, admire sporting deeds, feast on sporting commentary with all its excesses.

The Sport in Mind exhibition is 25% reflection and 75% perspiration!