The Cape Town Science Centre is a not-for-profit

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. It forms part of a wide range of non-classroom initiatives to improve the quality of science understanding and science literacy in South Africa. Until early 2010, the MTN Sciencentre was located in the

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shopping mall. It reopened in

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in 2011. The MTN Sciencentre's

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is in the

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as the world's largest working cell phone.

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* Science museums Museums in Cape Town Science and technology in South Africa {{SouthAfrica-museum-stub Observatory, Cape Town