Spring Holidays at the Science and Industry Museum

Shekina Rose, Families Editor
spring holidays at the science and industry museum
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Spring Holidays at Science and Industry Museum, Manchester 2 — 18 April 2022 Entrance is free — Visit now

Families of Manchester and the North are invited to the Science and Industry Museum during the Spring Holidays for some fun-filled family time, packed with discovery and creative activities. From 2–18 April, the museum is hosting fun family activities, exploring construction, Manchester’s innovative and world-changing ideas, and some of the cleverest contraptions ever made!

Explore Manchester Firsts and celebrate innovations that have taken place in Manchester throughout history right through to the present day. Hands-on activities and live-science shows will immerse people of all ages in Manchester’s iconic heritage and the cutting-edge, revolutionary science still taking place in our city.

Head to the Mega Makers indoor playground to create your own fun and games. Be inspired by the incredible building work happening across the museum’s historic site and build all sorts of exciting contraptions by connecting, stacking and assembling foam cubes, bricks, cogs, curves, and cylinders of all shapes and sizes.

Spring Holidays at the science and industry museum
Mini Movers and Construction Packs. Photo: Jason Lock.

 

There will be opportunities to use your investigative and problem-solving skills at Science Stops around the museum, run by expert Explainers who know a thing or two about the intricacy of a clever contraptions and how they work. You will learn how to turn a small seed of curiosity into a marvellous creation, using arts and crafts to design these concepts.

Visit the Textiles Gallery and see the fantastical display A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley, designed by Rowland Emett, creator of the inventions in 1965 film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Watch the three dimensional cartoon display spring to life at a daily demonstration, featuring whirring cogs, toasting teacakes and catching butterflies!

Magnetic art in Experiment gallery. Photo: Chris Foster

 

And for the curious experimenters out there – the Spring Holidays programme invites you to see science through a new lens in the museum’s revamped, family-friendly gallery, Experiment. A brand-new selection of immersive experiences invite you to explore and play with science, and discover new scientific facts. Experiment on your temperature, and find out about heat energy with the fascinating thermal camera. Use magnets to create art, and tell stories and make shapes at the shadow wall. Family favourites such as testing your own strength with a Mini and watching your own skeleton ride a bicycle are still available for everyone to enjoy.

Thermal Camera in Experiment gallery. Photo: Christ Foster.

 

There are all sorts of activities to do during the Spring Holidays at the Science and Industry Museum, for people of all ages. For the littlest discoverers aged 5 and under, ask at the welcome desk to borrow a Construction Pack, where you will find a hi vis jacket, a hard hat and wooden tools! For the tiredest visitors, big or small, you can sit back and settle down at story time, presented by the Explainer team at various times throughout the day.

Buzz wire in Experiment gallery. Photo: Chris Foster

 

Entry to the Science and Industry Museum is free, but booking is required. Please book by clicking on the link below.

Spring Holidays at Science and Industry Museum, Manchester 2 — 18 April 2022 Entrance is free Visit now

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