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an x-ray of a skull

Bodyworks

Students learn about their bodies, using digital microscopes, real x-rays, and turn their classmates inside out!

a close up picture of the eyes and yellow beak of a mechanical child's toy (Furby))

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.

a front-on view of a blue mBot robot which looks like it has a smiley face

Code Explorers

Robots need to survey penguins and avoid falling off the ice, can you write the programs to help them complete their mission?

A group of three women standing amoung the exhibits talking and laughing with drinks in-hand

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.

a top down view of a bot made of a circuit, cup, and pens on a scribble that it has created

Scribblebots

Students investigate simple circuits and then put them to work to make a scribbling bot and create a work of art!

Words "The Light Fantastic" written in neon colours

Light Fantastic

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