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On Shaky Ground
Using demos and hands-on activities, students learn how science and engineering help protect us from earthquakes.
Access considerations
Theme day
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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Using demos and hands-on activities, students learn how science and engineering help protect us from earthquakes.
Access considerations
Theme day
Featured
This exciting day is designed to engage students in the fascinating world of forensic science.
Wheelchair access limited
Theme day
Experience the search for elusive dark matter in this film for older school audiences.
Partially accessible
Planetarium show
Board the UK’s only 3D Planetarium for a presenter led expedition across the Solar System.
Partially accessible
Planetarium show
Join our live planetarium presenter on a journey around the seasonal night sky inside the UK's only 3D Planetarium.
Partially accessible
Planetarium show
Build a tornado-proof wall, test a roof with rain, and rip through a paper wall. Finish with some team building, literally!
Access considerations
Workshop
Students explore prisms, mirrors, ray boxes, and coloured filters to investigate the properties of light and shadow.
Light and Sound
Workshop
Fascinating exhibits are used to explore absorption, reflection, wavelength, phosphorescence and UV.
Light and Sound
Workshop
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
Lots of hands-on fun with levers, pulleys, cams, and gears. Culminates with teams building and firing model catapults!
Access considerations
Workshop
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.