Build It!
Build a tornado-proof wall, test a roof with rain, and rip through a paper wall. Finish with some team building, literally!
Partially accessible
Workshop
Education activities
A visit to our two exhibition floors can be combined with practical STEM workshops or longer theme days in our classrooms and laboratories. Students can also enjoy entertaining science shows in our Studio and in the 3D Planetarium.
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Home educator days
Light and Shadow
Students explore prisms, mirrors, ray boxes, and coloured filters to investigate the properties of light and shadow.
Light and Sound
Workshop
A Trick of the Light
Fascinating exhibits are used to explore absorption, reflection, wavelength, phosphorescence and UV.
Light and Sound
Workshop
The Pirate Code
Set sail on this voyage into coding as part of the pirate crew - but without a screen or keyboard on the horizon!
Access considerations
Workshop
Innoventions
Lots of hands-on fun with levers, pulleys, cams, and gears. Culminates with teams building and firing model catapults!
Access considerations
Workshop
Electricity Unearthed
Investigate electricity, conductors & insulators, simple circuits, and can you try and make a human circuit?
Light and Sound
Workshop
Bodyworks
Students learn about their bodies, using digital microscopes, real x-rays, and turn their classmates inside out!
Allergens
Workshop
Scribblebots
Students investigate simple circuits and then put them to work to make a scribbling bot and create a work of art!
Light and Sound
Workshop
Fossils & Evolution
Travel back in time to discover what rocks and fossils can tell us about the history of life on Earth.
Access considerations
Workshop
Colourful Chemistry
An illuminating, lab-based insight into the wonderful world of chemistry and some of its real-life applications.
Wheelchair access limited
Workshop
Inspire confidence in science
A visit to our two exhibition floors can be combined with practical STEM workshops or longer theme days in our classrooms and fully equipped laboratories, as well as entertaining science shows in our Studio and 3D Planetarium.