The Science Museums of Corunna (=mc2) is an institution of Corunna City council for scientific popularization.

This initiative starts from the premise that “There’s no culture without science”, and therefore scientific illiteracy is nothing but illiteracy. Citizens are provided with incentives and resources to include science in their culture and to be able to understand the world we’re living in.

Over and above its exhibition halls, the Science Museums of Corunna approach science to the citizens by means of activities, courses, conferences, workshops… The monographs on scientific communication give answers to the popular interest on current matters such as avian influenza, mad cows, or stem cells.

In order to promote the work of scientific popularizators, Corunna City council together with the Science Museums of Corunna give every year the Prism awards, an international contest held since 1998.

With the collaboration of the House of Sciences Friends Association, the Luis Freire award encourages the scientific activity among Galician scholars.