Rex Circuit

Following the Wernher von Braun route, you will discover that the V2 rocket, a real weapon of destruction, is actually the ancestor of all present-day rockets. La Coupole  will help you understand the links between war, science and Nazism and the way in which the scientific leaders of a war became the pioneers of the space race.

Peenemünde and the A4/V2 rocket

• Animation, in relief, of the workings of the A4/V2 rocket engine (3 min)
• V2 rocket
• V2 engine

The V1/ Peenemünde and Los Alamos

• V1 rocket
• Touch Table "Aerial reconnaissance and photo-interpretation"
• Film: "3D reconstruction of the Mittelwerk underground factory and the Dora concentration camp" (4 min)
• Actual size replica of the Little Boy atomic bomb

Dora. The V1 and V2 in London and Antwerp

• Film: "The special constructions" (8 min)
• Series of four models

The legacy of Peenemünde and the conquest of space (1945-1969)

• Silent film: "Discovery of Dora-Nordhausen by the Americans" (5 min)
• Film: "The conquest of space" (22 min)
• Same-scale series of 7 model rockets (1/20) and scale 1 model of Sputnik
• Comics on rockets

"Dora" exhibit

• Colour photographic report by Walter Frentz
• Drawings by Léon Delarbre

Highlights of the circuit

A genuine V2 missile and a 3D film about its engine ; looking at various themes : a reproduction of "Little Boy", the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima, mock-ups of rockets on a scale of 1/20e ...