Science Museum

 

Science Museum

 

VO

The words Science and Museum don’t exactly make you think of an exciting day out, but over in South Kensington they’re challenging that perception. The museum has all the scientific relics you’d expect to find, like the first steam train, the rocket and the first mass produced car, the model T ford, along with planes, trains and boats. But if the past doesn’t turn you on, welcome to the future.

 

IV

What the Wellcome wing has tried to do is step away from classical science, you know, galleries, which is cases and all those kind of things. Well here, we’re actually trying to get people to think a lot more, ask questions about themselves. How do these things actually affect you as an individual? Almost everything here you can actually get and have a go at it. We still have objects within the gallery, but a lot more is now getting involved and finding things out for yourself.

 

VO

So who’s getting involved these days? Just science boffins?

 

IV

No. We get a lot of families. We have galleries dedicated just for children, where they can come and sort of be inspired into science so they can come, they’ll have a look, and they’ll be inspired and they’ll realise that actually science isn’t just boring lectures, there’s a lot of fun involved in it and there’s a lot of stuff that you can actually get involved with and learn a lot but have a lot of fun while you do it.

 

VOX

I thought it was really nice.

 

IV

Surprisingly, we do actually get quite a few couples coming on first dates.

 

VOX

Oh, its brilliant. Much to see, three floors, they had a lot of interactive videos and motion rides, which were simulated space travel. Overall it was a brilliant brilliant experience. It was the experience of a life time, ha ha ha, that’s for sure.