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Bristol educational charity and science centre, We The Curious, has received a £440,000 grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation, to support the science centre’s reopening programme of activities, develop an online educational offer for schools and continue to develop their inclusion programmes.

After 14 months of closure during the pandemic, educational charity We The Curious will be reopening on Saturday 22 May 2021 with a bold new experience Project What If, which aims to leave people with questions rather than answers.

Educational charity We The Curious, has received a £173,400 grant from the Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage through The National Lottery Heritage Fund, part of the Government's £1.57bn support package to support the culture sector.

Educational charity We The Curious reopening (2021) with a bold new experience Project What If, which will feature the ‘John James Theatre of Curiosity’ – a central discussion space which encourages visitors to explore how science works.

Educational charity We The Curious reopening (2021) with a bold new exhibition Project What If, which will feature ‘Open City Lab’ – a unique research space dedicated to ‘open source science’ and democratising science.

We The Curious, along with over 40 members of the UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC), has today joined the Science Centres For Our Future campaign, which is calling on the government to set up an Emergency Resilience Fund to support the UK’s world-class network of regional Science Centres.

As part of We The Curious’ climate emergency declaration earlier this year, and pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030, there will not be a temporary seasonal ice rink this winter; BUMP roller disco will instead run on Millennium Square from 15 November – 5 January.

A beautiful new piece of climate action street art has been unveiled as part of a new collaboration between We The Curious and Jody Thomas, the acclaimed Bristol artist behind the world-famous mural of Greta Thunberg.