Discover Science with the University of Edinburgh

The National Museum of Scotland is packed with loads of hands-on stuff for families to do.

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You can ‘Discover Science’ with the University of Edinburgh - make a crazy monster, like Mike and Sully from Pixar Animation Studio’s Monsters, Inc. or meet nature’s Superheroes and learn how to walk on ceilings and jump over tall buildings.

See TV’s favourite scientist Dr Bunhead, back with his Exploding Brain Show, meet our robots that clean houses and discover how cosmonauts eat their dinner in outer space.

National Museums Scotland Events
You can also discover Science Behind the Scenes at the Museum (link to talks)and explore a different topic each day from archaeology to zoology. Meet museum staff, see objects and specimens not usually on display and find out about the science used to preserve, identify and investigate!

Come along and explore creativity, discovery and innovation in our interactive science and technology gallery – Connect (link to Connect entry) - stuffed full of exciting objects and interactives, from rockets to robots and clones to F1 cars, our fascinating new gallery brings science to life.

Also don’t miss Pixar: 20 Years of Animation - an exhibition of drawings, sculptures and traditional and digital paintings showing the art and techniques that created movies like Toy Story and The Incredibles.