The Weatherstation

Tycho Brahe was a man of the Renaissance, which meant that he did not regard heaven and earth, nature and humanity, science and philosophy as a whole. He took an interest in a great many different sciences and cultural activities. His motto was: Neither riches nor power – only science and the rule of art persist.

One of the things that profoundly interested him was the weather. He wanted to try to understand whether there was an association between conditions in the sky and the weather on earth. During fifteen years of his time on Ven, Tycho and his assistants therefore kept an accurate diary of the weather.

To highlight this early meteorological work, the Science Centre of the Tycho Brahe Memorials has established a Weather Station where visitors can learn about six different ways to measure weather: wind speed, wind direction, air pressure, air humidity, temperature, and precipitation. You can make your own observations, register them in a database, compare them with other observations and with Tycho’s meteorological diary, e-mail your observations to someone, and learn more about the different measurement methods and about the weather. See the website of the Weather Station.

The Weather Station is outside the south-west rampart, close to the little round greenhouse. The weather station was designed by Kristina Törnblom, Jan Cardell, and Lars Lincoln. The first observation was made by Crown Princess Victoria when she opened the new Tycho Brahe Museum on 29 April 2005.

The Science Centre is being built up with the aid of grants from EU Objective 2 Islands, Region Skåne, and the Foundation for the Culture of the Future