Hunter Science Festival 2023
The Hunter Science Festival is back for its always-popular and jam-packed day of STEM activity on Sunday 20 August 10am to 2pm at Newcastle Museum. This year’s Festival theme, Innovation – Powering Future Industries, will include hands-on interactive learning experiences, showcasing local technology and scientific research happening across the Hunter.
Highlights this year include:
- Make and race your own solar powered car with the team from Hunter Valley Electric Vehicles
- Become a poo on the giant inflatable Poo Palace from Hunter Medical Research Institute, and learn all about your digestion with their gastrointestinal researchers the Grand Poobahs (free, but must book here [sold out])
- Get hands-on with the Aldrin Moon to Mars Experience, including a science show and STEM pocket rocket activity. (free, but bookings required [sold out] Show and activity 50 minutes)
- Plant a native plant to take home with City of Newcastle’s Environment and Natural Areas Teams
- Chill out at the Newcastle Libraries science storytime zone and borrow one of their cool tech kits
- Climb aboard a City of Newcastle garbage truck, chat to the driver and visit the Waste Education tent
- …and more to come.
Organiser
The Newcastle Museum is committed to being a place for people, a place that shows ideas, tells stories, is a place of interaction. It reflects the past and celebrates innovation.
Newcastle Museum is fun, accessible, light and full of story. The museum tells a story of Newcastle and the Hunter, and through the collection presents a narrative of how we’ve lived and live today. The Supernova and Mininova exhibitions create an interactive scientific and technological learning playground, loaded with excitement and surprise. The travelling exhibitions present a wider narrative – of ideas, stories and futures.
Newcastle Museum links to STEM through its permanent Galleries – notably the interactive science-based Supernova, as well as historical STEM objects and stories throughout the rest of the Museum.
We host travelling exhibitions from other institutions that are STEM related, such as dinosaurs, oceans, bush mechanics, colour.
We also offer Museum Express – science shows that go out to schools across the Hunter region, as well as STEM education programmes/workshops/events for preschool, primary, aged care and people with special needs.
The Hunter Innovation and Science Hub (HISH) is a network of organisations within the Hunter that collaborate to deliver ongoing community science engagement programs, including during National Science Week. Our vision is to grow an inquisitive and future-enabled Hunter community.