Museum of Science and Industry

Liverpool Road
Castlefield
Manchester
M3 4FP

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What's on at Museum of Science and Industry

Science news posters

Sat 25 October and 8 more

Exhibition - part of Manchesticity

The winning posters by Year 9 students across the ten Greater Manchester boroughs based on science articles in newspapers and on TV.

Protect Our Planet

Sat 25 October 10.00 - 15.00 and 3 more

Workshop / Demonstration - part of Planet

We will offer a range of drop-in activities demonstrating fun and easy things people can do at home to help protect their environment.

Science Busking at Museum of Science and Industry

Sat 25 October 10.00 - 12.00 and 8 more

Interactive Demo - part of The Elements

How can you balance a cork on the end of your nose? What are the secret sounds of the oven shelf? What happens when you put mint mentos in a bottle of coke? Come and find out this and more in interactive and fun science demonstrations.

Under 5s Storytime

Sat 25 October 10.30 and 8 more

Talk - part of Mind & Body

A fun, interactive storytelling session for under fives and their carers. Props include puppets, toys and musical instruments – singing will also take place within the session.

Family Telecommunications Day

Sat 25 October & Sun 26 October at 10.30 - 15.30

Exhibition - part of Manchesticity

Explore how communications technology has changed over the years and how it works through amazing experiments and demonstrations.

BSL signs for science - chemistry demonstration

Sat 25 October 11.00 - 12.00

Show - part of The Elements

Dr Audrey Cameron and Gary Quinn will demonstrate science experiments using British Sign Language.

The Life and Language of Science - an introduction for fiction writers

Sat 25 October 11.00 - 13.00

Workshop / Demonstration - part of Mind & Body

Ann Lingard and Jennifer Rohn will talk about the joys and challenges of putting modern science into fiction.

Planetarium Show - The Night Sky

Sat 25 October 14.00 and 17 more

Show - part of Planet

A fascinating seasonal view of the stars and planets as seen from the North West of England.

Supermarkets to Sewers

Sat 25 October 14.30 and 8 more

Show - part of Mind & Body

Find out about the food we eat, why we need it and where it goes. Join us in the process where participation produces poo!

BSL signs for science - finding new science terms

Sat 25 October 14.30 - 15.30

Talk - part of Mind & Body

Gary Quinn from Heriot Watt University and Rachel O’Neill from the University of Edinburgh will discuss the process of finding and agreeing new signs for science terms in British Sign Language (BSL).

CSI Manchester

Sun 26 October 11.00, 13.00

Talk, Workshop / Demonstration - part of Manchesticity

In a practical workshop for budding crime writers, use some of the basic scientific methods often used in analysis of evidence found at a crime scene, and then hear novelists talking about their work and research.

John Dalton costumed character

Sun 26 October 13.30 and 3 more

Show - part of The Elements

Meet the man who’s atomic theory gave birth to modern chemistry.

It looks like you're writing a letter, and Zeroes and ones

Sun 26 October 14.00

Show, Talk - part of Mind & Body

Ross Sutherland and Tim Clare give a lively and stimulating lecture on the relationship between the imagination, language and mathematics.

Stephen Baxter

Sun 26 October 16.00

Show, Talk - part of Mind & Body

To round off our Big Science Read weekend, we are thrilled to host a reading by one of the UK’s leading science-fiction writers, Stephen Baxter.

Bend it like Sparky!

Mon 27 October 11.30 - 15.00 and 4 more

Workshop / Demonstration - part of Mind & Body

Bending a free kick can be a footballer’s most potent weapon, but how do they do it?

Martin Rowson - Cartoons, Offence and the Human Odyssey

Mon 27 October 13.00 - 15.00, 19.00 - 20.00

Talk, Workshop / Demonstration - part of Planet

Martin Rowson is an award-winning political cartoonist.

Trevor Baylis - Why Invent?

Mon 27 October 14.00

Talk - part of Mind & Body

Discussing the difficulties of taking a product to market, the history of inventing and the obstacles he had to overcome to get his now famous Clockwork Radio to the market.

Not so fantastic plastic: Design and decorate your own fabric bag

Tue 28 October & Wed 29 October at 10.00 - 15.00

Workshop / Demonstration - part of Planet

The workshop will highlight the negative aspects of plastic, including our excessive use of plastic bags.

The story of transatlantic communications

Tue 28 October 10.30 - 16.00

Talk - part of Manchesticity

A one day seminar looking at the exciting story of transatlantic communications.

150th anniversary lecture: “Trans-Atlantic Telegraph – the birth of Global Communications”

Tue 28 October 18.00

Talk - part of Manchesticity

This free lecture is aimed at a family audience and will tell the story of the 1858 Trans-Atlantic Cable and how this laid the foundations of today’s internet, world wide web and global communications.

Sustainable Sounds

Wed 29 October, Thu 30 October & Fri 31 October at 10.00 - 16.00

Interactive Demo, Workshop / Demonstration - part of Mind & Body

Making and playing musical instruments from recycled objects.

Sound Matters

Wed 29 October 15.00 - 16.30, 18.00 - 19.30

Debate - part of Mind & Body

Light-hearted adult debate on topic of “soundscapes”.

Open University lecture - Where is your mind?

Wed 29 October 19.00 - 20.00

Talk - part of Mind & Body

This talk will raise issues about how we might most usefully conceive of "The Mind" by examining the question of just where it might be located.

All Shook Up: The Science of Earthquakes

Thu 30 October 13.30

Talk - part of Planet

Demonstrations and activities will show how seismologists use the waves that earthquakes produce to learn about our dynamic planet.

Chemistry with Cabbage

Thu 30 October 14.30

Workshop / Demonstration - part of Mind & Body

A demonstration of exciting chemistry that you can do at home using household chemicals.

The Joshua Phillips Award for Innovation in Science Engagement

Thu 30 October 15.00 - 16.00

Interactive Demo - part of Manchesticity

Presentation of the Joshua Phillips (or Josh) Award for Innovation in Science Engagement to this year’s winner.

Make bouncy plastic

Thu 30 October 15.30 - 16.30

Workshop / Demonstration - part of Mind & Body

How can you make your own plastic out of glue that bounces? Come along and try it yourself in this exciting hands-on class.

Open University lecture – Cosmic catastrophes - the risk to human life from astronomical phenomena

Thu 30 October 19.00 - 20.00

Talk - part of Planet

This talk will describe how various astronomical phenomena may pose a threat to life on Earth and discuss the likelihood that human civilisation could be destroyed by a cosmic catastrophe.

Speaking with and without your hands

Fri 31 October 10.30 - 15.30

Workshop / Demonstration - part of Mind & Body

Come along to a workshop with interactive activities to learn more about why and how we communicate with our hands when we speak.

Fabulous Forces

Fri 31 October 11.30, 14.30

Show - part of The Elements

This show is all about forces and moving, with rockets, exploding balloons, flaming hands and many more amazing and intriguing demonstrations.

Open University lecture - Can we live without oil?

Fri 31 October 19.00 - 20.00

Talk - part of Planet

The talk will explore the science behind alternatives to oil and the ethical issues raised.

Science and the Oxford English Dictionary

Sat 1 November 13.30 - 14.30

Talk - part of Mind & Body

A look at the history of science words and scientists in the Oxford English Dictionary, and at the process by which new words enter the language and the dictionary.

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