Microcosm (CERN)

Microcosm is a museum of particle physics located at CERN in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, near the town of Meyrin. It covers 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.

Microcosm garden

The Microcosm garden features several large components of old CERN experiments.<gallery>Image:Microcosm_Garden.jpg|The entire gardenImage:Big_European_Bubble_Chamber.jpg|The Big European Bubble ChamberImage:LEP_RF.jpg|An RF cavity from the Large Electron-Positron ColliderImage:Microcosm_initial_accelerator.jpg|Initial stages of an old particle accelerator</gallery>

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