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What’s On at Scienceworks August to September 2008
What’s On at Scienceworks August to September 2008
Imagination Factory - Invent and Play
Discover how simple machines can be used to create ingenious inventions. Investigate basic mechanical tools and find out how we use gears, levers, pulleys and cams in everyday life. With dozens of hands-on interactive exhibits, this exhibition will have the gears of your mind spinning with new ways to think about the mechanical world around you.
Developed by Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra. Proudly supported by Raytheon.
Date: Until 3 May 2009
Cost: $11 adult, $4 concession, $3.50 child (includes Scienceworks entry)
Discover the Night Sky
Evening Planetarium Program
Due to the popularity of March’s season of Discover the Night Sky, the Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks presents special after-dark sessions, Thursday evenings in August. All evenings include complimentary wine and cheese, the opportunity to chat to the Planetarium’s Astronomer and be immersed in a Planetarium experience. The evening will finish with stargazing through telescopes (weather permitting)
The remaining evening will showcase:
Thursday 28 August: Leaving Earth
It’s been 50 years since the first satellite was launched into space. Now one of them is a permanent home. See what it’s like to live in space; why do we go there and where are we heading next?
Date: Thursday evenings throughout August 2008.
Session times: Commence 7pm.
Cost: $25 per person, MV members $20, Season pass $85.
Bookings essential: Bookings open 2nd June, 2008. Call 03 9392 4819 Monday to Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm
The 2008 Allison-Levick Lecture - Hot News from the Big Bang
Malcolm Longair, a leading UK Astrophysicist from the Cavendish Lab - University of Cambridge, will conduct a lecture discussing recent developments in our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe. The night will include the lecture, wine and cheese refreshments, a showing of Digital Universe (a presenter lead show run by Scienceworks Astronomer Dr Tanya Hill) in the Planetarium and telescope viewing (weather permitting).
Time: 6.30pm
Date: Friday 29 August
Cost: $25 adult, $20 MV Members
Bookings essential: 9392 4819
National Science Week 2008
Museum Victoria will be celebrating National Science Week with special lectures and events from 16 - 24 August. Visit our website for program details museumvictoria.com.au/Scienceworks
Four of Scienceworks National Science Week events include:
BASF Kids Lab
Experience the fascinating world of chemistry! Run by BASF Chemists, the chemistry workshops introduce chemistry to children in a fun and exciting way through simple and interactive hands-on experiments.
Date: Until Sunday 24 August.
Cost: Free with venue admission
Bookings essential: Call 03 9392 4819 Monday to Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm
Australian Skeptics
The Australian Skeptics will be explaining the science behind the paranormal at Scienceworks. See magic illusions and wonder, try out a bed of nails and many more surprising demonstrations.
Date: 23 and 24 August
Cost: Free with venue admission
Scienceworks, 2 Booker St, Spotswood. (Melway 56, B1). Open daily 10.00am - 4.30pm. Admission: Adult $6, Children and Concession FREE. Additional charges apply to special exhibitions, Planetarium and Lightning Room shows. For further details phone 03 9392 4800 or visit museumvictoria.com.au/scienceworks
