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Let Your Imagination Run Wild At Scienceworks Latest Exhibition
Let your imagination run wild at Scienceworks latest exhibition
Have you ever wanted to create your own ingenious inventions? Imagination Factory - Invent and Play is a new exhibition coming to Scienceworks that is set to inspire visitors to imagine, invent and play.
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.
Imagination Factory will take Scienceworks visitors on an inventor’s journey with the basic mechanical tools — gears, pistons, wheels and pulleys — and let them discover how seemingly simple devices can be used to create nifty inventions. The exhibition brings technology back to basics. One cog might not be exciting — but what happens when you add several cogs of different sizes, plus some levers, wheels and building blocks?
Visitors are challenged to explore exhibits that use simple machines, such as a sculpture that spins using gears and a toy dog that jumps for a ball using cams. Other exhibits let visitors play rock-paper-scissors using electric circuits, operate a robotic arm using pneumatics and even lift a friend off the ground using pulleys or levers.
“The centrepiece of the exhibition will be a gigantic, interactive Energy Machine, a culmination of all the innovative technology on display in the exhibition. The machine is a humorous model of a machine that lays and sorts eggs - it’s incredibly intriguing to watch it in action,” Genevieve Fahey, Manager Scienceworks said.
Also known as the Eggery Machine, this highlight exhibit will engage visitors by showcasing the egg sorting process with interactive activities including using pneumatics to sort the good eggs from the bad, sending eggs down musical mazes and packaging eggs.
Imagination Factory also tells the story of many Australian Inventors and the logic behind them. It is a great way for students and the whole family to take part in an interesting and educational exhibition.
Imagination Factory was developed by Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra. Proudly supported by Raytheon.
Imagination Factory - Invent and Play opens on Saturday 28 June 2008 and is showing until 3 May 2009. Scienceworks is at 2 Booker Street, Spotswood. Melway 56, B1.
Adults $6, Children & Concession FREE, a surcharge for this exhibition applies
Information line: 03 9392 4800 or visit museumvictoria.com.au/scienceworks/exhibitions
