Just the museum remains open for now, nevertheless it is still very informative. Definitely sit through their video at the end of the tour

Visited when I was in college and I loved how much there was to see. The only downside was lack of seating so my legs were killing me when I finished. Good for a day out and a workout.

Seriously in need of Disney magic. I could get a better explanation of whats going on here by watching the BIG BANG THEORY show.Additionally, this is a very small exhibit hall that tried to offer too much in tight spaces. I cant imagine how this might be in a post Covid world with more people.Sadly, they also display CERN hard hats in the gift shop, but they are not for sale.

Absolutely brilliant! The 1 hour tour is free. Same goes for the museum. Perfect for university students but a bit hard to understand for physics plebs. Still it is incredible to see how everything is made and of what incredible size the components of the LHC are

Its great to have free guided tour. But the queue is long, 5 person per tour and the registration is 2 hours before the tour. No option to reserve online. I ended up visiting only the brief but comprehensive Microcosm exhibition.

A unique place of cooperation, knowledge sharing, multi-ethnicity and multi-culturally. The definition itself of what synergy is. Worth to know, to learn as a model.

I didnt find the microcosm exihibit at all interesting. I enjoy physics but even for me it was painfully boring, just reading and tapping touchscreen displays, barely any interaction or fun. It felt like I was reading a book about Cern and felt nothing like an engaging exhibit. Maybe including some games, sound displays, reducing or even spreading out the information between displays would help people enjoy the exhibit more. Its definitely an exhibit designed by scientists for scientists or people with an interest in physics and not for regular layman to enjoy or even understand. Maybe the tour is different and more engaging, Im not sure as I did not attend it.

Exposition is good (history, details and lot of content - for something free).The staff is friendly, helpful and also super patient with pushy visitors. Kudos to them.On the negative side, the 1h guided visit was quite disappointing: not much content and not as interesting as the main exhibition. Im not recommending waiting for this tour, as places are limited and take quite some time to queue to signup, for a poor content.

It is a limited visit due to current Covid restrictions, hence only 4 stars. Will be back up to full strength when current crisis is over. Still worth a visit if you are passing. Does a very good job of making a very complex subject a bit more understandable.

I work here as a scientist, so my view is a little biased 😊. Still, I love talking to visitors about the work we do here, and Im sure youll have a fantastic time!

CERN is amazing place for the scientific advancements it has made not just in the field of physics but other day to day living too.1 have been there twice and loved it both times, detailed tours and lectures gives deep insight of the work put into this field at this place.They also do limited tours throughout the year of the collider itself but you would have to be very lucky to get that, most of the tours are skipped without that privilege.Amazing place for school/college students as it really lights a spark in peoples mind and gets them thinking into STEM subjects and widening their horizons.

Simply the best and most astonishing place on Earth! I had the chance to visit it last year and I absolutely love it, the science and research they do in here is really impressive, Im hoping to end up working here some day!

What a place! Innovation, Teamwork across nations, unlocking the secrets of the Universe. What an AMAZING place.If you ever manage to visit Geneva make sure that you will go for a guided visit at CERN. A lifetime experience!Not only you will see what us humans can achieve but you might also realize how small Earth and humanity is in comparison to what the whole Universe consists off!Having professionals explaining the work done to CERN might even change your perspective of how you see life. Just speechless about this place.

Had a stopover in Geneva and thought going to CERN would have been an interesting stop. It wasnt too hard to get there (bus and walking) and got there around 0840. The office was full of students (since it was school holidays and looked like they had some sort of event) so wasnt able to go in and the globe was still closed up. There were a few things to look at in the plaza but otherwise not too much to do.I didnt really look it up beforehand which was probably a mistake on my part but that was the only time I had to have a look in the area.

One of the best museums Ive ever visited. Great information, simulations, and exhibit pieces.

The organisation of the visitor center is acomplete mess!I just can not belive that they are able to do serious science here. if even organising a waiting line is beyound their abilities...seems a huge buerocratic entity..and the visit was not so informative at all...

Probably, a good museum, but, unfortunately, we didnt get a chance to visit it, as we had to leave after standing in a line for 1 hour on August 5th. During that hour (from 1 to 2 pm) about 20-25 people left the museum, but only 7 were let in, and we still had 8 people before us. At the same time, some people out of the line were allowed to get in from time to time without having had to wait in the line. The covid measures are understandable, but somehow other facilities have learned to manage it in the past 1.5 years.

Very informative place be ready to walk.

A interesting tour.You can see many special things and also some work shops.

Lying across French and Swiss border, 28km long tube is a wonder, though most of it is shut off from the public. Museum is a good place to make a visit. www also started there. The very original www coding computer is on display.

The most interesting experimental facilities in the world. I am happy to remind that visit again and again.

One of the top priorities when you visit Switzerland Geneva! You have to visit and register for a tour to discover more about Cern one of the biggest organisations for nuclear research in the world. I both visited it and worked there and it was a huge experience for me.

Interesting tour, although I’m not convinced that I know significantly more about their purpose after the tour in comparison to before the tour! The museum alone is worth the hassle of getting tickets! Remember: no large bags! There are NO public lockers!

I had the good fortune to visit CERN, while on a long layover at Geneva airport. Even though I had not booked a tour, I just wanted to see what was available, and out was well worth the trip. The Microcosm exhibit is great, with many cool displays and free entry. The science globe across the street also had interactive and video exhibits. Everything is in multiple languages and very accessible. You should come visit, Ill be back for a guided tour for sure!

Please do yourself a favor and book guided tour. Its difficult to get the slot. Slots open 2 weeks in advance only and fill up very quickly. Sometimes randomly some slots become available when someone cancel their reservation. New slots open at 2:30 am Canadian time (8:30 am swiss time).Tour is 2 hour and very informative. It had access to some places like ATLAS building where ordinary visitor cannot go. Along with 2-3 multimedia presentations.Spare atleast 4 hours for this place. 2 hours of tour and then 1-2 hours for permanent exhibitions.Reception is opposite to globe building. Go there for visitors registration and pick up your card. Tour starts from reception area.

The trip was amazing. Everybody who likes science, technology, chemistry etc. will enjoy it. You can get know so many interesting things. They are doing amazing job and its pleasure to hear about their job and success. I regret that we cant visit the lhc directly.

This is an extremely amazing experience for everyone. The facilities are amazing and its an essencial part of evolution in its field.

CERN is worth a visit from everybody remotely interested in science. The 2 hour tour is free (must book in advance) and is conducted by actual scientists. Many of whom are not gifted storytellers though. The visit is quite interactive and explains the activities performed well.

A very interesting and informative research area. We had a good tour and enthousiastic tour guides. We have seen a lot.

We booked in for the guided tour and it was excellent. One of the students studying for his PHD took us around and we got to see the ATLAS control room and hear all about the experiments and history of CERN.Everything is free and really interesting and they have great permanent exhibits too.Highly recommended for anyone with a science fascination.

Brilliant time. Helpful staff. Very interesting tour.

I am dreaming work at there.*Engineer girl ☆

Guess you could call me biased, but it is a great place to visit.Come and visit the Microcosm exhibition and the Globe of Science and Innovation, enjoy one of public events or get on a guided tour to see some of the experiments, accelerators or control rooms. Its all free of charge.Theres also Open Days once in a while, next ones are 14/15 Sept 2019.

One of the best places I have ever been ! the level of intelligence here is astounding !

Great place to visit for anyone slightly interested in Science. Free tours if you book early online. Be aware you will not go underground to visit the actual collider.

A lovely tour to get to know what is cern about. There is staff inside that can explain in depth the theory behind the experiment. Perfect for students and child. On the other side of the road you can buy T-shirts and imaginative souvenirs for you mom.

Great experience! We enjoyed a lot. We wanted to do a guided tour but unfortunately it was all booked. Anyway you can visit two exhibitions, Microcosm and Universe of particles. They are in two different buildings but they are very close to each other and its free.They have almost all the audios in english, french, german, spanish and italian you can choose it.If you are a curious person and you enjoy science its totally a must. To go there you can use the tram, line 18, its the last stop of the line.

Its not actually accessible to the general public, or at least not when I was there. The building and sculpture out the front of it are interesting to look at, though.

John Titor. Make the time machine.

Highly enjoyable guided tour by a couple of the staff who normally work on their scientific projects and were incredibly knowledgeable. Make sure to book early!

A must visit place for physics lovers.Worlds largest nuclear research center. This is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.

Visiting CERN was the highlight of my Europe trip this year.Firstly, the tour was well organized and our tour guide was incredibly knowledgeable. When it comes to nuclear research, the tour could become very academic or boring if you are not into physics or science. However, from how the microcosm was designed to the way that the guide explains things, the knowledge sounded very fun and easy to be absorbed.Secondly, they took us to see the synchrocyclotron. Wow. When I entered the room and the animation started showing and explaining the history and functions of the synchrocyclotron, I just felt mind blown.Lastly, it brought me so much emotions because the scientists here dedicated their whole life to research and explore from quark to universe. I felt extremely honored to visit this place.

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Awesome experience! Where the science begins... Dont miss!

Visiting this place is a dream came true! You better book a guided tour in your language ahead of time!

Great place for people that care or are in touch with the subject that they are testingThe facilities are huge and spread all over France and Switzerland

They turned my dog into an Alien5/5 Stars ⭐

Good particle physics learning

CERN is the worlds largest particle physics laboratory.It is unique in the sense that people from all around the globe visit and work here.Thank you CERN for providing such a nice place.

Excellent experience for the scientifically minded...even if there is no space in the guided tour. Great exhibitions.

Did ya open a portal yet?

Amazing tour. The mecca of physics. Got to go down to the CSM detector.

Cern researchers in particle physics and M=theory degrade God-believers and perceive us as having sub-human intellect

My brain exploded faster than the 2 particles collide before I entered this amazing lab :P! The worlds largest and most expensive particle collider ever built!

One of a kind place on this planet. Fundamentally important to progress.

THIS IS INSANE! I mainly liked it because of there biggest project. If you wanna learn about the studies of protons and neutrons and electrons collide together, C.E.R.N is the right place to go.

Not that exciting to see, spent there an hour but no interactive video was shown. Unfortunately the place did not meet the expectations. The function of spheres inside is unclear. Would be great to know more of benefits of the invention on humanity

Shout out to MR. BRAUN! A great tour guide and I loved the exhibitions. He described the tests they were doing, especially with the Kerr black holes which had me really intrigued. The assistant-tour guide, Moeka was extremely helpful and made sure our tour was fun, so shout out to her too.El Psy Kongroo.

LHC needs more advancements to verify String Theory but still it has been very successful, for the Higgs Boson and other things. It is the best place that a normal guy will see.

As a science fan, it was the most amazing trip I could take. It was absolutely amazing to be given a tour through the facilities in which some of the greatest mind of the modern times, are changing the way we percieve physics. It was awesome to look at the places where so many things that I watched and read on my phone while having my jaw dropped, actually took place. Simply inspirational.

I really like CERN I wanna do job in CERN.

Cern =opens portal to…

Definitely a great place to visit

My physics teacher proved the existence of God using the Higgs boson and now I am a devoted religious man. I really liked the part of the Google maps tour where they showed us the parking lot outside CERN.

This is the best place to work if youre willing to exceed yourself and bring humanity forward.

They are achieving so many great things at CERN, with an incredible dedication to progress. The tours are also great!Well Done - EIGHT

I know this review is pretty unnecessary to note, but if for any reason you get the opportunity to enter the area and you choose not to. Then you are losing a one of a lifetime experience nowhere else to be found.

Great.

Science! Visit ATLAS if you can

Really esteemed energy elements held there under research. Buy this company in the photo.

CERN is such a big organisation. Its incredible and everyone is so nice and helpful!Its really great even if for just a quick visit.The guided tours take you to ATLAS visitor center where you see a 3D movie and other places. I highly recommend it!

Not great guide

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the worlds largest and most respected centres for scientific research.✌Highlighting the latest research and project developments from around the world..🙋🏻‍♂😀physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe.🤩

Very interesting site with lots of fascinating science facts. Guided tour was informative but the guide was exceptionally boring and for the slightly hard of hearing almost impossible to understand.

Very interesting and love the architecture

ı wish travel in this the science house

What a great place to visit. Educational. Nicely displayed. Worth an hours visit for sure.

Very educative

❤️The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN (/sɜːrn/; French pronunciation: ​[sɛʁn]; derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border and has 23 member states. Israel is the only non-European country granted full membership. CERN is an official United Nations Observer.❤️

Open exhibitions are amazing! Reserve a tour in advance to see CERN underground. Worth visiting on your trip!

You are sad zeros

This is probably one of the coolest things to do in Geneva, and a lot of people miss it. We went without booking a tour, but they had one spot open, so my friend (a physics buff) went and I did the exhibitions. I expected to have to find something else to do during her 2 hour tour, but the exhibitions took up nearly that time. If you have to pick one, go with Particles of the Universe. Microcosms explains the large hydrogen collider. Both give extensive information, but are understandable even if you have a lesser knowledge of physics (like me).

Amazing guided tour lead by an actual physicist. Cant believe they dont charge for the tours. Just so much to learn and take in. Thankfully the tour only glanced over the main bits, but we did some exploring before the tour and asked questions on what we found. The shear amounts of data they process is astounding. Will definitely have to go back whilst the LHC is off so we can go see it. Well worth the visit.

Interesting but to be honest didnt see that much except for a couple of videos and an empty control room. The LHC was shut down at the time, youd think the ideal time to go below and actually see some of the incredible machinery. Drove from Spain to see a couple of videos basically.

Fascinating place to visit, giving an insight to some of the most innovative research and technology on the planet. Our tour guide was incredible and helped us to engage with the science without needing a PhD in physics. Not to me missed if you visit Geneva!!

Absolutely amazing research facility.I wonder what is the efficiency spending of funds.In a lucrative company there is a clear cashflow. What about CERN staff and expenses for the results during the 65 years of operation?Anyhow I wonder again what Richard Feynman would say about CERN, knowing his negative reaction to NASA research when he was investigator of the Challenger space shuttle aftermath.We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied?Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick

Amazing

Watch it!

Its an amazing place, but not for visitors. Our tour guide was great, but the tour itself was a supreme disappointment. The Atlas tour was nothing but a kitschy 3D film in a cramped conference room and looking through the control room windows. The tour of the original accelerator lab was actually quite cool. The gift shop was tiny and the merchandise uninspired.

One of the highlights during our trip. Just think that below you is the worlds largest particle accelerator AND is being used as we walk around the facility. Its mind blowing. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and engaging. I highly recommend this tour and get your science-nerdiness on.

Wow, what a place. I have visited twice now, and both times had a guide that was friendly, informative and (most importantly) explained things in such a way that it made sense, despite not having studied physics since high school! CERN is so big, and there are so many projects, that a tour will never be the same twice. To begin to understand what the universe is made of and how exactly a particle collider works was very intellectually rewarding.

Little information about CERN, and there work...!

CERN lies at Border of France and Switzerland where both Nations made available 625 Ha (Hectare) of Land in which France contributed 515 Ha and Switzerland about 110 Ha. One Hectare Land is equal to One Square Hectometre or 0.01 Square Kilometres Land. Underground Construction of Tunnel in CERN is about 59 Kms Length. This is very Huge Construction involving Worlds Biggest Complex Machinery ever built by Humans for Understanding Deep Secrets of Nature through High Energy Experiments. A Great Achievement in Engineering, Technology and even Great Achievement and Advancements in Most Fundamental Research Field Quantum Mechanics.

Extremely interesting place. I could not believe that this huge accelerator lies under such a peaceful and green land.It is awesome that 3h tours are completely free, but do your reading in advance if you actually want to understand the explanations.

I would give 5 stars, but they loose 2 because theres no vegan food and no sustainability program ( no electric car charge points, still plastic cups)

Nice place where you can have a coffee and always find someone to talk to. A great place to find out whats going on in the community

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border, and has 23 member states. More than 6000 top physicists are working here every day. Walking on the CERN campus, you can run into a Nobel Prize winner at any corner, esp. at noon in its dinner hall.

Its free for tourists but you have to book in advance. Theres a lot of information so prepare a full day. Youll learn a lot about the history and how some of the most important discoveries were made and who were the people behind them.

A unique, fantastic place where the highest level of a great part of foundamental physics, and an exemplar and exciting powerful international collaborations join together every day. Being there, having the opportunity to take a tour of the LHCb, was one of the most wonderful day of my Life!!!.

Open Mo-Fr 8-17:45, Sa 8:30-17:15, free entry to exhibitions, free guided tours, free parking, bus & tram in front. Interesting insight in the actually nuclear research at CERN from the community of 23 nations.