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Innoventions

Lots of hands-on fun with levers, pulleys, cams, and gears. Culminates with teams building and firing model catapults!

2 prisms with green and red lights shining on them, on a dark background

Light and Shadow

Students explore prisms, mirrors, ray boxes, and coloured filters to investigate the properties of light and shadow.

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Special events

From late nights at the Planetarium and Relaxed Mornings to films on the Big Screen and on-off events happenings amongst our curious exhibits. Find out more about special events happening in We The Curious.

A child and two adults in the Kitchen at We The Curious. The child is being helped to make oat milk by a member of staff.

Day visit activities

Find out about workshops, shows and creative activities that are part of your visit.

a lit up bulb in a circuit on a peg board

Electricity Unearthed

Investigate electricity, conductors & insulators, simple circuits, and can you try and make a human circuit?

a green truck in the foreground, with 2 children and a fan in the background

Fantastic Forces

Think you know about forces? Counterintuitive ideas are smashed with hammers, feathers, juggling balls, and lunchboxes.

Some toy horses in the foreground, and a circle with different habitats on in the background

Fossils & Evolution

Travel back in time to discover what rocks and fossils can tell us about the history of life on Earth.

Light Fantastic

This highly visual and phenomenon-based show considers what light is, where it comes from and how it travels.

A close up of a rocket fuel burner on it's side, lit with blue lighting

Launch It!

This loud and exciting show investigates the propulsive forces and explosions that take rockets into space.

a man in a red top next to a tube with blue liquid, white vapour is billowing out the top of the tube

Splash and Bubble

This bubbling and explosive show engages students with liquids, gases, and ideas about volume and making measurements.