Light and Shadow
Students explore prisms, mirrors, ray boxes, and coloured filters to investigate the properties of light and shadow.
Light and Sound
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.
Are you a home educator?
View our programmes specifically designed for home educators.
Home educator days
A Trick of the Light
Fascinating exhibits are used to explore absorption, reflection, wavelength, phosphorescence and UV.
Light and Sound
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
Light Fantastic
This highly visual and phenomenon-based show considers what light is, where it comes from and how it travels.
Access considerations
Studio show
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.