Take a journey with Sarah Cosgriff to see the world of biology through the lens of physics.
Discover how physics allows us to see microscopic organisms, understand how living things adapt to their environments, and helps astronauts travel to outer space.
Join the team for this rare opportunity to visit their amazing stores. Go behind the scenes into areas that the public very rarely get to access and uncover some of the amazing objects which are not on display.
This tour will focus on our stunning and incredibly popular land transport collection. Your guide for this session will be Sharon Brown, Curator of Land Transport, Work, and Industry so you will have an unparalleled opportunity to ask questions and hear from a real world expert.
Places are extremely limited to ensure that this is an intimate experience and that everyone has the opportunity to ask questions and to spend time with their favourite objects.
Get (really, really) close to World Museum’s collections this Microscope Week! Use their machines to learn all about the microscopic world around us.
World Museum Treasure House Theatre
10.30 – 3.30
Join World Museum for a planetarium show that can be enjoyed irrespective of level of vision.
All of the objects in space are represented with rich sounds as well as with incredible visuals. The audience can listen to the stars appear and hear the planets orbit around their heads.
NOTE This event runs on the last Saturday of every month
Costumes are a big part of World Museum’s Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder exhibition, from alien prosthetics inspired by the animal kingdom to spacesuits and even the iconic outfits of each regenerated Doctor.
Join artist Jane Gordon for a drop in family workshop and create all kinds of weird and wonderful costumes from art materials inspired by your favourite Doctor Who character.
Suitable for ages 3+. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
The Doctor’s trusty sonic screwdriver has many uses: scanning, medical applications, welding and computer hacking.
We may have to wait a while before we have the technology for a device like the Doctors but families can join this workshop ran by STEAM Engineers, to paint your own MDF sonic screwdriver and create an LED circuit to light your sonic screwdriver up.
Programme a microbit to play the Doctor Who theme, make sonic screwdriver noises, and attach to your own light-up sonic screwdriver! The Microbits will need to stay after the workshops but the sonic screwdrivers can be taken home.
Part of Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder
Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for an awe-inspiring ride!
Tim Peake is a European Space Agency astronaut. In December 2015, he became the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station to conduct a spacewalk (and run a marathon!) whilst orbiting Earth. Now, join him on an epic and thrilling journey to the International Space Station as part of his first ever UK tour.
Tim will be your personal guide through life in space, with unprecedented access, breath-taking photographs, and never-before-seen incredible footage. It’s a fascinating insight into what it’s really like to be an astronaut; from training to launch, spacewalk to re-entry, Tim reveals the secrets, the science and the everyday wonders of how and why humans journey into space.
Tickets are now on sale for the world’s largest festival of public science talks that will see University researchers take to the stage in venues across Liverpool this May.
The Pint of Science festival is returning to Liverpool for the first time since 2019 following two years of online events.
The three-day festival, which takes place between 9-11 May, has seen a huge growth in popularity since it started ten years ago, with events in over 25 countries and hundreds of cities around the world.
Twenty-seven Liverpool researchers will be showcasing some of the latest, exciting research happening at the University through a unique line up of talks, demonstrations and live experiments. Talk topics this year include the future of healthcare and work, gut microbes, cancer, air pollution, climate change, Covid-19 research and much, much more.
The festival is being staged at city-centre venues Leaf on Bold Street, Tempest on Tithebarn and The Long Shots.
Tickets cost £5 each and are available from the Pint of Science website.
For the full programme and booking details please visit: https://pintofscience.co.uk/
World Museum’s relaxed shows have adjustments to be more inviting for visitors with sensory needs and their friends and families.
These adjustments include: low level lighting left on during the shows, lower volume levels, freedom for visitors to move around and freedom to leave and re-enter the planetarium. People may like to chat or respond to shows while they are running.
They will have sensory toys and objects alliable for visitors to use. There will be reduced ticketing for one show on each relaxed day to allow more space for their visitors.
This brand new, exciting and educational show will amaze and astound all ages from 4 years and upwards, as they put the “Exciting” back into “Science”.
With fun and fact filled experiments, watch in amazement as they recreate a volcanic eruption; turn a vacuum cleaner into a missile launcher or take aim at you with our smoke blaster!
So stand clear and prepare for action, as this show is full of Wiz, bang, pop …. And splurt!