The Biodiversity Forum, a centre managed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Biodiversity Foundation, and the Casa de la Ciencia, the CSIC’s dissemination centre, received a total of 81,618 visits in 2011.

The Biodiversity Forum, a centre managed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Biodiversity Foundation, and the Casa de la Ciencia, the CSIC’s dissemination centre, received a total of 81,618 visits from the public in 2011. 

Specifically, the Biodiversity Forum received 23,053 visitors last year and the House of Science attracted 58,565 visitors. Both centres thus considerably increase the number of visitors compared to 2009, which stood at 13,857 and 39,361 respectively. In total, the total number of visits to both centers, located in Seville, increases by 50 percent. They are thus consolidated as an important leisure offer for the city of Seville, thanks to a dynamic agenda of activities throughout the year.

The Biodiversity Forum (www.forodelabiodiversidad.es) was inaugurated in June 2009, thanks to a collaboration agreement between the CSIC and the Biodiversity Foundation, which owns the building. In this center – located in the Patio de Banderas of the Royal Alcázar of Seville – numerous activities have also been held and it also has permanent exhibitions (connection with Doñana and with the captive breeding center of the Iberian lynx live) of great success among the public.

For its part, the House of Science (www.casadelaciencia.csic.es) opened its doors in 2008 thanks to the cession of use of the building – the Peru Pavilion of the Ibero-American Exhibition of 1929 – by the City Council to the CSIC, whose aspiration was to turn it into a space for the dissemination of science, nature and ecology. Since then, it has organized and hosted events of all kinds within the scientific, environmental and cultural fields.