The Technoda was founded in 1986 as an extension of the Madatech[2] Museum at the Technion, as part of the Jewish Agency's neighborhood rehabilitation project.

The Technoda activities focus on research experience in science for kindergarten and school children as a complementary curriculum, and after-school enrichment classes in fields such as physics, biology, medicine, electronics, robotics, aeronautics, astronomy, optics, computers and mathematics.

The new Technoda campus, inaugurated in September 2006, includes advanced science, technology and computer laboratories, an astronomy observatory and a planetarium.

[citation needed] At the end of 2011, construction began on a large exhibition hall for an interactive scientific-technological center and Science Park.

The Technoda's telescope, about 40 cm in diameter, is based on mirror and lens optics and gives the viewer up to 800 times magnification.