Outreach: we visit you
Our Outreach team can bring a range of dynamic shows and workshops to your school or community venue.
We are now taking bookings for visits in the spring term: 7 January to 3 April 2020 (excluding Mondays).
If you would like us to visit your venue in the summer term 2020, bookings will open on Monday 6 January 2020.
The activities below are categorised by the following age-group suitability:
- Schools—early years foundation stage (EYFS) / key stages (KS1–4)
- Communities—young people (CYP) / adults (CA)
Browse our science shows and workshops
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
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
Join us for a journey into space in this action-packed show. Together we will discover what it takes to become an astronaut, launch a rocket, explore the Solar System and look for alien life.
This show contains explosions, super-cool liquid nitrogen, eye-popping vacuums and wee drinking. You have been warned!
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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 switched off for the duration of the show
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
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
How can we prevent pandemics?
What does it take to become a surgeon?
What secrets does your DNA contain?
Could we be immortal one day?
From medieval potions to 3D printed organs, your students will handle some amazing objects as we take them into the fascinating world of health and medicine.
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Practical information:
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Audience size: up to 30
- Suitable for: ages 11-16
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
