Scienceworks at Spotswood has unveiled plans to attract more adults in future as it this week celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Manager Nurin Veis said the science and technology venue was attracting about half a million visitors annually – double the number it was originally built for.
However, one of her goals is to put on exhibitions that appeal beyond young children and families.
“At the Science Museum in London, there’s a big exhibitions on robots, and that’s an exhibition that appeals to visitors of all ages,” Ms Veis said.
“We are in the process of negotiating with them to see if we could possibly bring that out to Scienceworks.
“That’s got old robots from the past, and it traces the history of where robots have all come from … then we look at examples which are cutting-edge robots that are coming out of Japan at the moment.”
The most popular exhibition in Scienceworks’ history has been
Star Wars, which featured more than 80 costumes and items from all six films, transported in temperature-controlled conditions.
However, Ms Veis said exhibitions developed in-house, such as House Secrets, Toys and Think Ahead, were her personal favourites.
“We’ve got some highly-immersive, out-of-body-experience exhibitions coming up, which we are developing in-house,” she said. “We’ve actually got exhibitions opening next year, which are for the 13-15 year olds, called Beyond Perception, and it will deal with issues of dark matter and gravitational waves.
“Next year … we do have an American exhibition coming out called Above and Beyond, and that is all about flying.
“We are creating a Scienceworks where you will never want to stop coming here.”
