Building Blocks
A Walk Through Time
BodyZone
Our Exhibitions look at engineering, building, biology, history, people...
Come and see our current exhibitions: we are currently showing a curious mixture of extraordinary and very beautiful objects made between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival of Britain in 1951.
The collector, Maurice Collins, has been finding and conserving these historic artifacts for over 30 years - from the clockwork burglar alarm to the piano-player's hand stretcher - it shows how human ingenuity comes into its own and how everyday life is changed by simple inventions.
Also on display in our Welcome Area are some wonderful drawings by young visitors to our gallery.   
Credit where it is due!
Science Alive is grateful for the generous loan of collection items from the Museum of Harlow, one of our partners.
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Science Alive is developing a wide range of activities, workshops and exhibitions during 2012 - many with a strong flavour of our history and heritage - as with the Wacky Gadgets gallery.
We'll be inviting many of our visitors to get to grips with these items during handling sessions, including a variety of workshops aimed at local children and young people from schools getting involved in our new Destinations project.
Destinations is a major guidance and advice programme, sponsored by the BAA community fund.
Our goal is to help young people to decide who they really are and what they could really be in life: scientists, archeologists, artists, teachers or builders.
We're more than happy to help them on their way - and very grateful to BAA for their support.
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