Our most popular show, this amazing spectacle features bubbles of all sizes going up, down, this way, that way, and all over the place… with a little help from the audience!

Find out the secret Science Museum bubble recipe, learn how certain materials can change the way others behave, and step inside the famous human bubble.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 30 minutes
• Audience size: up to 300
• Suitable for: ages 3-11

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment
• Easy access to water

At bedtime, when Hedgehog is supposed to be settling down to hibernate, his eyes play tricks on him and he thinks he can see monsters. Can he use different light sources to find out what's really going on?

This interactive storytelling takes children on an exciting journey of discovery about light and shadows.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 30 minutes
• Audience size: up to 180
• Suitable for: ages 3-7

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment
• A space that can be darkened to blackout

Help the three little pigs choose the best materials to build a strong house that will keep them safe from the big bad wolf.

This interactive storytelling involves plenty of audience participation.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 30 minutes
• Audience size: up to 180
• Suitable for: ages 3-7

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment

Sir Isaac Newton and Phil the Stunt Frog combine forces in this action-packed extravaganza.

Join us on a trip to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Ancient Greece and the Highland Games, as we take a closer look at the forces that shape our world.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 45 minutes
• Audience size: up to 300
• Suitable for: ages 7-11

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment

Find out about opposing forces, take part in a tug-of-war, and build your very own anti-friction hovercraft in this interactive workshop.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 60 minutes
• Audience size: up to 30
• Suitable for: ages 7-11

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment
• A large area, preferably a hall

This show is all about blood, guts and all things gross.

Follow the journey of blood through the human body, discovering what it does, what's in it, where it goes, and what happens when you start to lose it.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 45 minutes
• Audience size: up to 300
• Suitable for: ages 7-11

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment
• Fire and smoke alarms to be switched off during the show

You want to go on a mission to Mars, but how are you going to get there?

Discover the science behind launching rockets and satellites into space, as well as finding out a lot more about satellites and their orbits.

Then make your own rockets that will hopefully reach Mars! 

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Practical information:

• Duration: 60 minutes
• Audience size: up to 30
• Suitable for: ages 7-11

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment
• A large area, preferably a hall

Slime is a strange substance. Left to its own devices, it oozes like a liquid; give it a push or a pull, and it's stiff like a solid.

This workshop looks at materials, how they change and transform, and involves making slippery slime to take home at the end of the day.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 60 minutes
• Audience size: up to 30
• Suitable for: ages 7-11

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment
• A large area, preferably a hall

Follow the journey of your food into your mouth, through the acid bath in your stomach, along metre after metre of pulsating guts, and then… out the other end!

This show, featuring video footage of people's inside, is a gross, squirm-inducing demonstration of why exactly your poo is brown.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 45 minutes
• Audience size: up to 300
• Suitable for: ages 11-14

This show can only performed if:

• Fire and smoke alarms can be switched off during the show
• There is step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment

Dive into the weird world of materials in which no jelly baby, Barbie doll or paint tin is safe!

In this fast-paced and fact-packed show we'll answer those all-important questions about materials, such as:

• What is the world around us made of?
• What’s the difference between elements, molecules and compounds?
• How do you make a jelly baby scream?

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Practical information:

• Duration: 45 minutes
• Audience size: up to 300
• Suitable for: ages 11-14

This show can only performed if:

• Fire and smoke alarms can be switched off during the show
• There is step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment

Communication is an important skill that we all use in a variety of ways every day, and the Science Museum's presenters are among the best in the world at communicating science to make it fun and engaging.

In this workshop our experienced presenters will help your students to learn short science demonstrations, ranging from launching a mini rocket to making water vanish. At the end of the session they will present their demos to a live audience of their classmates, their year group or local primary school children.

Through this process students will:

• develop their communication skills
• build their confidence in making presentations
• increase their understanding about science

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Practical information:

• Duration: 90 minutes
• Audience size: up to 30
• Suitable for: ages 11-14

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment

Join Plasticine Pete and Pam as they travel to the extremes of temperature, and investigate the incredible effects of the coldest substance you'll ever see - liquid nitrogen.

Find out what it feels like to touch a cloud, make instant ice cream, and stick your fingers in your ears as we blow up a balloon Science Museum-style!

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Practical information:

• Duration: 45 minutes
• Audience size: up to 300
• Suitable for: ages 11-14

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment

The problem: transport water across a 2m gap without carrying it.

The solution: a funnel, bamboo canes, guttering, string, hosing, plastic sheeting, elastic bands... and a whole heap of ingenuity in this challenging workshop.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 60 minutes
• Audience size: up to 30
• Suitable for: ages 13-16

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment
• A large area, preferably a hall

At the Science Museum, there's nothing we like better than an experiment that makes your jaw hit the floor. So we've chosen all our favourite demos and packed them into this explosive show for all ages!

From rockets to 'magic' tricks, from instant ice cream to earth-shaking bangs,  this is science at its most entertaining!

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Practical information:

• Duration: 30 minutes
• Audience size: up to 300
• Suitable for: ages 5-adult

This show can only performed if:

• Fire and smoke alarms can be switched off during the show
• There is step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment

Learn how to do some fun science at home using everyday items you'd typically find in a kitchen. Then you can go away and impress your family and friends with homemade rockets, a kaleidoscope of colours in milk magic, and the infamous tablecloth trick.

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Practical information:

• Duration: 45 minutes
• Audience size: up to 30
• Suitable for: adults

This show requires:

• Step-free access through your venue for moving our props and equipment