Ethiopia Science Museum a national Science Museum located in the heart of Addis Ababa. This initiative is part of a series of efforts of providing the Ethiopian public as well as international visitors a view of history, culture heritage, natural heritage as well as showcasing science promoting a new era whereby people will experience and envision a hopeful future for all.

Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world; It generates solutions for everyday life and helps us to answer the great mysteries of the universe.

The Science Museum will be a bridge between science, society, and technology.

The promotion of science and technology is an essential element of Ethiopia’s development agenda; it is a transversal element of sustainable development with the capacity of promoting youth participation in community development, offering them the means to participate in economic growth, and becoming key agents for technological innovation.

• THE VISION

  The Science Museum is the Vision of the Prime Minister whose leitmotiv is to bring together a world of science where we will be able to embrace technology, innovative practices, and methods, to advance understanding, improve lives, and shape the future while being respectful of our environment. 

  It is also the Prime Minister’s objective to expose Ethiopia and more broadly Africa’s contribution to science as well as ensure we create an enabling environment to ensure the next big innovation breakthrough comes out of our region.

• THE OBJECTIVES

  The Ethiopia Science Museum will have exhibition spaces that will collect, restore, and preserve homegrown and more broadly African findings, as well as be a space for innovative and future ideas, services, and products; a space where visitors come to be awed by science and to learn and understand its impact in defining who we are and what we do.

  It will primarily be a place of learning and inspiration, whereby people will gather to experience the challenges and opportunities shaping our times and find solutions for a better future. It will be a place of tolerance, inviting varied cultural and social outlooks giving Ethiopia the potential to promote its role for Africa and African scientific discoveries in line with the principles and vision of the African Union of having “Great Museums for Africa.