Let’s kick off National Science Week 2023 with a bang! We are holding a Science Week LIFT OFF event at Wallsend Library, check out what’s happening!
Science Shows
Start the day with one of two incredible “Balloons and Bubbles” FREE science shows from the University of Newcastle SMART team (11am or 12.30pm). Suitable for all ages. Book your tickets here (on sale from Saturday 1 July).
Science Show demonstrations include:
Liquid Nitrogen
Giant Bubbles
Toroidal Vortex (Air) Cannon
Elephants Toothpaste
Rocket Science
The Main Event – Free Lunch!
A FREE drop-in pizza lunch 12pm – 2pm where you can meet real scientists, ask them all your burning science questions, or maybe chat to them about how they became a scientist. We will have a wide range of scientists including biologists, food scientists, environmental scientists and more – check back closer to the date for a list of scientists. Suitable for ALL AGES but especially suitable for high school students wanting to ask about career options or primary school students who love to ask questions – well these scientists have all the answers!
Finish up with prizes!
Win prizes at science trivia at 2.15pm!
Ages: All Ages
Bookings only required for Science Shows. (Tickets on sale from Saturday 1 July)
This project received funding from the Australian Government.
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.