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An adult and young child play with a hand-held pricing machine in the Open City Lab at We The Curious. There are yellow shopping baskets with some food containers in them on the table in front of them.

shopping trolley secrets help science

You’re in a local supermarket trying to choose what to have for lunch – what do you pick? If you picked a meal deal (the classic combination of a main, drink and snack), your choice could be useful to science.

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Community research funding 2025

Find out how to apply for £2000 to develop a question around health or wellbeing that matters to you and your community through our Research Collective programme.

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LGBTQIA+ scientists who inspire us

To celebrate Pride, our team of LGBTQIA+ Champions have pulled together a list of incredible scientists whose work and lives continue to inspire us.

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We The Curious celebrates 25th birthday

Celebrating 25 years of We The Curious: Bristol’s science centre puts call out for memories to build a Curious Timeline, celebrating the city’s science, curiosity, creativity and change

An brightly lit open space with tables, boards and activities with the name 'Open City Lab' space illuminated above

Open City Lab

A unique research space dedicated to ‘open city research’ and democratising science.

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New funded schools' programme

BRISTOL educational charity and science centre, We The Curious, has received £149,101 from the John James Bristol Foundation towards a new funded schools' programme aimed at addressing educational inequality in Bristol.

One of the first volunteers of We The Curious smiling and turning an exhibit with a sand clock while one of the latest volunteers is standing in the foreground smiling.

National volunteer week 2025

This National Volunteer Week, we are reflecting on the almost two decades of incredible people who have volunteered with us, and how they have truly helped shape We The Curious into what it is today.

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