Group Trips
Award-winning interactive art works made from waste materials, teach Science through play.
Visiting D42
Set in the beautiful priory park, a trip to Discovering42 offers an immersive and unique space to explore interactive, up-cycled artworks that delve into physics in fun new ways. Winner of the National Museum and Heritage Awards 2022 & selected as Best in Heritage 2023
A standard trip is 2-4hrs depending on your preference. It includes a self-guided tour around the museum and a workshop. Groups are usually split in half, one half doing the tour while the others do the workshop then swapping over.
We have use of the outdoor space and have use of marquees for workshops so we can accommodate more then one class if required. If you are bringing significantly more than 40 children then please email us, we would suggest splitting the group into three and we will host two groups in collaborative style workshop or selection of challenges while the third group is looking round, these groups would then rotate.
Payment can either be via invoice post trip or via card at the time of booking. It costs £7.50 per head and supervising parents or teachers are free. Workshops are around 1hr and usually include making something from up-cycled materials that participants can take home. Our workshops cover a range of physics topics. Please take a look at the booking form to find out more. Please get in-touch if you would like a bespoke workshop on a topic we do not currently offer. There is space to have packed lunch at the museum in the cafe area or in the priory park.
We also offer a budget option, to just look around the museum in a self-guided tour for £3.50 per head.
BOOK & CONFIRM YOUR TRIP USING THE FORM BELOW
OUR WORKSHOPS
WASTE AGE
A new workshop in collaboration with the Design Museum that looks at materials, highlighting the issue of waste and how design can help. Based on their 2023 Waste Age exhibition.
ROCKETS
Apply Newton’s three laws of motion to build and launch a high-altitude, air-powered rocket, while also learning about how variations in nose cones and fins can allow you to reach new heights.
SPINNING ARTWORK
Learn how we can amplify electric signals with transistors to create a touch sensor and create your very own spinning artwork.
TEMPERING CHOCOLATE
Discover states of matter and explore how to manipulate the crystal structure of chocolate to create solids with different properties.
MECHANICAL TOY
Reanimate old toys with a simple mechanism using cams or linkages to bring them to life (select which one when booking).
DAYS, YEARS AND SEASONS
Construct a model of the Earth to discover the dynamics behind day and night, a year and the changing of seasons.
KALEIDOSCOPE
Learn about refraction, interference patterns, reflections, and filters, then apply this knowledge to craft a light kaleidoscope.
MAGNETS AND MOTORS
We will get to grips with the mechanics of magnets, then move on to exploring their application by creating motors.
WATER-POWERED COMPUTERS
Explore the binary number system, then build a water-powered calculator capable of adding numbers together.
STEADY HAND GAME
Explore the principles of electrical circuitry, including the flow of electricity and the functioning of switches and LED lights.
BUG BOT
Create your own itsy twitchy robotic bug while learning about basic circuits and all the huge world possibilities.
Interactive artworks made from waste materials allow learning about Science through play while provoking conversations about our throwaway society and climate change.
WHERE?
Narisa Hall/Old Band Stand, in Priory Park
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We are in priory park in a cream, glass-fronted hall, across the lawn from the pond. We have coloured bike wheel windmills out the front.
BY COACH
Parking at Priory Car Park, PL31 2DE.
BY TRAIN
Bodmin Parkway station then catch a bus.
BY BUS
2min walk from Mount Folly or Lidl stops
BY BIKE FROM WADEBRIDGE OR PADSTOW
Camel Trail to Bodmin + 7min cycle though town along designated cycle paths.