CERN opens its doors to the world

Geneva, 4 July 2013. From 27 to 30 September 2013, CERN is putting on a long weekend of events and activities as a way of sharing its research and discoveries with its community and the wider public. On Saturday, 28 and Sunday, 29 September, CERN will open up its installations to the general public. With the slogan "Our Universe is Yours", these two Open Days will put the spotlight on CERN's discoveries and experiments, as well as the fantastic machines that lead to these discoveries. From 9.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m., visitors will have the chance to meet CERN's researchers, engineers and technicians and to explore their laboratories, technical halls, experiments and accelerators at the biggest particle physics centre in the world. There will be some 40 visitor points: highlights for visitors to explore on the surface will include experiments at the antimatter factory, the cryogenic and crystal laboratories and the halls housing the enormous magnets. Underground, they will be able to visit the points of the LHC - the world's largest accelerator - and its experiments.