A museum in Pinner was “privileged” to be invited to deliver workshops at the prestigious Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition 2024.
Every summer, the Royal Society puts on this flagship week-long, free event, during which they present cutting-edge research and innovation from more than 300 scientists in an array of displays, talks, discussions and interactive activities.
At this year’s exhibition, visitors got hands-on with personal brain scanners, real ice core samples from Antarctica, chandeliers made from waste, and also learned how stem cells reveal secrets of the embryo.
In 2022, the Heath Robison Museum in Pinner was awarded a Places of Science grant by the Royal Society to help fund their celebration of the 150th anniversary of Heath Robinson’s birth. The museum put on a free gadget fun day, with a Meccano model exhibition, build the tallest tower challenge, and whacky races.
The Royal Society loved the event so much that they invited the museum to take part in the exhibition.
Whilst Heath Robinson was not a scientist but rather an artist and illustrator, he became best known for his illustrations of humorously overcomplicated gadgets.
The Heath Robinson Museum workshop ran from 10am until 6pm on both July 6 and 7. An estimated 2,000 people took part and were invited to create a complicated energy transfer chain reaction out of rubbish.
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