Try your hand at a whole host of superb science-based activities around the museum as we celebrate British Science Week with Newcastle University.
Come and join the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University where you will be able to do some hands-on science experiments, accessible to all ages.
There are five different experiments, complete each one to receive a stamp and if you collect all five stamps you will graduate from ‘Science@Beamish’ with Newcastle University!
The 1900s Pit Village:
- Test your skills in splitting light and make your own rainbow, in a spectroscopy experiment at the lamp cabin.
- Colourful Chemistry (20-30 minutes): Marvel over the different colours in chemistry, together with some explosions in The Pit Village chapel (11am, 1pm, 3pm)
The 1950s Town:
- Are you a Tetris master? Try your skills in drug discovery and find out how to get drugs from plants in our A Reece Workshop.
- Will you be able to take energy from light? Give it a try in the solar cell experiment at our Bowling pavilion.
The 1900s Town:
- Are you fast enough to catch light? Come and find out in the photography experiment at our Bank Board Room.
- There are many types of sugars. Do they all taste the same? Challenge your taste buds and discover how sugars are important in the body at the Masonic Hall.
1820s Landscape:
- A family activity at Pockerley Old Hall.
- An Alchemist’s Dream (10-15 minutes): A short, fun argument between an alchemist and a modern day chemist in St Helen’s Church (11.30am, 12.30am, 1.30pm, 2.30pm).
1940s Farm:
- Do you know your dots from your dashes? Learn all about Morse Code at our 1940s Farm.
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Use your Beamish Unlimited Pass or Friends of Beamish membership to take part in our Science Weekend.
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