Science in the Shopping Centre

intu Broadmarsh Listergrate, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Venture into outer space and delve inside the human body with hands-on activities. Activities include: An inflatable planetarium from ExplorerDome Hands-on activities from the Nottingham Molecular Pathology Node The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of BioFilms in our everyday lives from the University of Nottingham Using magnets to understand the brain with the University […]

Free

Science at 38 Carrington Street

38 Carrington Street 38 Carrington Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Pop in for exhibitions and hands-on activities about how computers use sensors, how to grow a garden up a wall and the future of cities. 

Free

Science Busking in the City

Smithy Row Long Row, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Pop down for some easy to learn science busking and information about the festival. JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT

Free

Curiosity at Sneinton Market

Sneinton Market Gedling Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

The Festival of Science and Curiosity comes to the Avenues!

Free

The Big Problem

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Family activities in the Hall and Park about 'The Big Problem' - the impact of humans on their environment. Get the chance to handle real museum objects and specimens!

Free

Unkindest Cut

Sneinton Market Gedling Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Enter the mysterious shipping container for a captivating light installation and dance performance exploring mental health in young people.

Free

Engineering at Nottingham Industrial Museum

Nottingham Industrial Museum The Courtyard, Wollaton Hall, Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Step into Nottingham's Industrial Heritage, from Tudor mines to the world's first video recorder. Get stuck in with a special festival engineering activity about cogs and gears.

£3

Science at 38 Carrington Street

38 Carrington Street 38 Carrington Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Pop in for exhibitions and hands-on activities about how computers use sensors, how to grow a garden up a wall and the future of cities.   These activities will be particularly suited to people with additional needs and disabilities. 

Free

The Big Problem

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Family activities in the Hall and Park about ‘The Big Problem’ – the impact of humans on their environment. Get the chance to handle real museum objects and specimens!   These activities will be particularly suited to people with additional needs and disabilities. 

Free

Science at the Mill

Green's Windmill & Science Centre Windmill Lane, Nottingham, United Kingdom

The Festival of Science and Curiosity comes to the Mill, with extra special activities including maths puzzles and physics games! FIND OUT MORE

Free

Light Night at Cobden Place

Cobden Place Cobden Place, Pelham Street, Nottingham

Travel 33.9 million miles down Cobden courtyard into the orbit of Mars, where we'll be looking back at our home planet from afar. We'll be inviting families to create shadows and drawings that can be projected onto a screen while warm up over a hot drink and listen to the music of everyone's favourite starman […]

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The Coral Garden

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.

Free

The Coral Garden

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.

Free

The Coral Garden

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.

Free

Curiosity Playground

Sneinton Market Gedling Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Sneinton Market will play host to a series of curious sensory science installations throughout the week of the festival. Come down and have a go with these pieces that will make you go 'What?', 'How?', 'Why?' and 'WOW'!     The installations have been created by Theatre Design students from Nottingham Trent University.     […]

Free

Press Hear 3i

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

PRESS HEAR 3i is an interactive installation that explores ideas of society, culture and our modern
world in relation to our future. Produced in conjunction with pupils at six Nottingham/shire schools,
the artwork is interactive sounds, visual and sculptural.

Free

Curiosity Market

Victoria Centre Market intu Victoria Centre, 222 Victoria Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Dive into a gene pool, challenge your family to a reaction-time competition and explore the journey of medicines from powder to pill. Hands-on activities in your local market.

Free

Matt Woodham: Sensing Systems

Bonington Gallery Nottingham Trent University, Dryden Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Matt Woodham presents his debut solo exhibition Sensing Systems at Bonington Gallery from 15 Feb – 28 March 2020. The gallery will be filled with a composition of connected installations, positioning visitors within a system of light, sound and motion.

Free

The MOMENT

Sneinton Market Gedling Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

What if you could change the way a film was playing out while you were watching it? What if you could see more of what was exciting, and less of what you’re not interested in? Join Director/ researcher Richard Ramchurn from AlbinoMosquito and University of Nottingham, who have produced an interactive film that feeds of your brainwaves, to see one of over 18 billion combinations.

Free

Family Fun Weekend at Wollaton Hall

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Explore Wollaton Hall’s secret specimen collection and be wowed by full-sized human body collages from Keith Bloody Mary and Dr Lisa Chakrabarti, exploring ageing and exercise.

Free

Science Fun Day (Mansfield Central)

Mansfield Central Library Four Seasons Centre, W Gate, Mansfield

How do virtual reality games work? What would it be like to live on Mars? How does sound travel to our ears? Hands-on activities in your local library.

Free

Press Hear 3i

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

PRESS HEAR 3i is an interactive installation that explores ideas of society, culture and our modern
world in relation to our future. Produced in conjunction with pupils at six Nottingham/shire schools,
the artwork is interactive sounds, visual and sculptural.

Free

Salt Dough Modelling

Green's Windmill & Science Centre Windmill Lane, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Use salt dough and your imagination to make a creation of your own invention - the more curious the better!

£3

Family Fun Weekend at Wollaton Hall

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Make music from plants, using circuits and sensors. Explore Wollaton Hall’s secret specimen collection. Be wowed by full-sized human body collages from Keith Bloody Mary and Dr Lisa Chakrabarti, exploring ageing and exercise.

Free

Plant Blindness Workshop: Conducting Nature with Callum Mulligan

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Explore plants, circuits and music. Try out plants that play music when you touch them and make your own. Join technologist Callum Mulligan in the Great Hall for this fun family friendly drop in.

Free

Explorers Fair: Interactive Art Experiments

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

In this free, drop in activity, experiment with using conductive materials, inks and paint to create interactive artworks that light up, make music and respond to touch.
Help us create an interactive mural with conductive paint and create your own interactive drawings, paintings or cards to take home.

Incredible You

Radford - Lenton Library Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Take part in producing work for an exhibition of Incredible You - a colouring book developed by scientist-artist Dr Lizzie Burns to celebrate the beauty of the body under a microscope.

Free

Incredible You

Bilborough Library Bracebridge Drive, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Take part in producing work for an exhibition of Incredible You - a colouring book developed by scientist-artist Dr Lizzie Burns to celebrate the beauty of the body under a microscope.

Free

The Coral Garden

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.

Free

Science Fun Day (St Ann’s)

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

How do plants grow? What does an animal skeleton look like? What does a slinky sound like? Find out the answers to these questions and many, many more with lots of hands-on activities in your local library!

Free

Science Fun Day (Kirkby-in-Ashfield)

Kirkby in Ashfield Library Ashfield Precinct, Kirkby in Ashfield

How do virtual reality games work? What would it be like to live on Mars? How does sound travel to our ears? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with hands-on activities in your local library!

Free

Incredible You

Bilborough Library Bracebridge Drive, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Take part in producing work for an exhibition of Invisible You - a colouring book developed by scientist-artist Dr Lizzie Burns to celebrate the beauty of the body under a microscope.

Free

The Coral Garden

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.

Free

Science Fun Day (Aspley)

Aspley Library Nuthall Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

How can we make plastic from sugar? What does the DNA of a strawberry look like? What can we build from lego? Find out the answers to these questions and many more through lots of hands-on activities in your local library! Accessibility Aspley Library has an accessible ramped entrance with manual doors and is all […]

Free

Science Fun Day at Rushcliffe Arena

Rushcliffe Arena Rugby Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, United Kingdom

What does our galaxy look like? What sound does a spring make? What are the different constellations in our night sky? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with hands-on activities in your local leisure centre!

Free

Incredible You

Radford - Lenton Library Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Take part in producing work for an exhibition of Incredible You - a colouring book developed by scientist-artist Dr Lizzie Burns to celebrate the beauty of the body under a microscope.

Free

The Coral Garden

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.

Free

Science Fun Day (Hyson Green)

Hyson Green Library Mary Potter Centre, 76 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, United Kingdom

How can we use computer games to train horses? How does electricity conduct around our bodies? What do germs look like on our hands? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with hands-on activities at your local library! Accessibility Hyson Green Library has an accessible ramped entrance with automatic doors and is […]

Free

Curiosity Garden

Fircroft Community Garden Fircroft Avenue, Bilborough, Nottingham

Fircroft Community Garden will be open for you to enjoy some food, get creative and explore the wonder of nature!

Free

Mood Pinball

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Broadway's Near Now presents MOOD PINBALL, a playable digital artwork by Ben Neal, Edie Jo Murray and Harmeet Chagger-Khan. Located in Broadway's main entrance foyer.

Discover Microbes

Mansfield Museum Leeming Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Drop in to Mansfield Museum to explore the wonderful world of microbes!

Free

Get Hands-on with Quotient Sciences

Hyson Green Library Mary Potter Centre, 76 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Join scientists from local company Quotient Sciences for some hands-on activities exploring the world of drug discovery.

Free

Create a Spinning Top

Mansfield Museum Leeming Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Drop-in on this workshop exploring how size and design affects movement. No need to book!

Free

Cardboard World

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Join us in creating a world where everyone is welcome. You have the power – what should be in it? How will it help everyone belong? Bring your creative ideas, create an amazing space and then take your good ideas home with you to put into action!

Free

Science Fun Day at Nottingham Central Library

Nottingham Central Library 1 Carrington Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities in your local library. 

Free

Sensing The Brain at Wollaton Hall

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Come down to Wollaton Hall for this interactive installation from University of Nottingham scientists using quantum centres to detect electrical activity in the brain.

Free

Science Fun Day at Clifton Library

Clifton Library Southchurch Drive, Clifton, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities in your local library. 

Free

Maker {Futures} at Bassetlaw Museum

Bassetlaw Museum Amcott House 40 Grove Street, Retford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Join the Maker{Futures} team to create, tinker, test and get hands-on with playful activities that explore electricity, power and energy.

Free

Science Fun Day at Southwell Minster

Southwell Minster Church Street, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities in the Minster!

Free

Science Fun Day at Hyson Green Library

Hyson Green Library Mary Potter Centre, 76 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities in your local library. 

Free

Veolia Recycling and Crafts at Bassetlaw Museum

Bassetlaw Museum Amcott House 40 Grove Street, Retford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

What happens to our waste? Find out about the science of recycling and find out what you can upcycle from things that we throw away every day!

Free

Science Fun Day at The Bridge Skills Hub

The Bridge Skills Hub The Bridge Skills Hub, Bridge Place, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Come on down to the Bridge Skills Hub where there will be a range of hands-on experiments and activities delivered by local employers and training providers.

Free

Science Fun Day at Strelley Road Library

Strelley Library Strelley Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities in your local library.

Trelleborg Workshops at Bassetlaw Museum

Bassetlaw Museum Amcott House 40 Grove Street, Retford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Come and join the staff from Trelleborg, an international polymer company, where you’ll get hands-on with creative engineering activities.

Free

Egg Drop Challenge at Bennerley Viaduct

Bennerley Viaduct Awsworth Rd, Ilkeston, United Kingdom

Bennerley Viaduct stands 20 metres above the beautiful Erewash Valley. But would an egg survive the drop? Only one way to find out! Booking essential.

Free

Science Fun Day at St Ann’s Library

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities in your local library. 

Free

Experiment with colour at Bassetlaw Museum

Bassetlaw Museum Amcott House 40 Grove Street, Retford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Find out how colours mix and spread using chromatology and have a go at Tie Dye!

Free

Science Fun Day at Nottingham Cathedral

Nottingham Cathedral Cathedral Church of St Barnabas, North Circus Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities at Nottingham Cathedral. 

Free

Science Fun Day at Bulwell Riverside Library

Bulwell Library Bulwell Riverside Centre, Main Street, Bulwell, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities at your local library. 

Free

Lego Day at Bassetlaw Museum

Bassetlaw Museum Amcott House 40 Grove Street, Retford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Come and let your creative construction skills bloom with a full day of making whatever you want out of Lego.

Free

How to Look After at Taxidermy Bird at Mansfield Museum

Mansfield Museum Leeming Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Join Collections Officer Anja Thompson-Rohde to find out how and why museums collect taxidermy specimens, and how we care for them once we’ve got them!

Free
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