Memories! I was at the pre-opening of the Exploratory in around 1986 with my then two year old daughter. I nicked several ideas and made them up to use in teaching, one favourite was investigating positional hearing using kitchen funnels plugged into home-brew plastic piping plugged into ear-defenders (with holes drilled in).
This stuff was a real revolution in teaching science
Otherwise I would say that the first hands-on science centre in the UK was a landmark of major importance. There is a bit of debate about who was the first to open in around 1986, but the Ontario Science Centre Circus appeared at the Science Museum as a Launchpad precursor in 1982, and at the British Association Meeting in Norwich in 1984 Richard Gregory and Steve Pizzey showed the first home-grown UK hands on exhibits in a tent, making it the direct precursor of the Exploratory, At-Bristol, Inspire, The Observatory and the Discovery Dome, as well as an indirect stimulus for all the others
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We're asking and discussing with our #scicomm masters students this week what key moments in the history, politics and future of #scicomm might be...
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