We’ve teamed up with Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum to bring you a chance to win a visit with your family in our competition. Located in Birmingham city centre, Thinktank is the perfect day out for all ages.
Thinktank is Birmingham’s award winning science museum for fun packed family days out. With over 200 hands-on displays on science and technology.
Here are some of the highlights on offer:
- Mini Brum is an exciting child-sized world, aimed at under 8s, features recognisable landmarks, such as the Birmingham canals, Selfridges and the Old Joe Clock Tower at the University of Birmingham. It also features a coffee corner which sells refreshments and snacks, a buggy park, lockers, accessible toilets and baby change facilities. There are several different play zones for children to discover and enjoy.
- Step inside our Planetarium and explore the outer reaches of space, get up close to constellations, journey through the night-sky and adventure through the solar system!
- The Science Garden offers an adventurous and entertaining day out, bringing themes of engineering, mechanics and transportation to life through over 30 hands-on exhibits. Visitors of all ages can get ‘bodies on’ with exciting and inventive exhibits including an eight metre high clanging ‘Terminus’ machine and a giant human-sized hamster wheel that has a top speed of 30 revolutions per minute.
- Come face to face with a dinosaur and other skeletons from the past in the Wild Life and Marine Worlds galleries where you will explore the diversity of life on Earth.
- One of the jewels in Thinktank’s collection is the Smethwick Engine, the oldest working steam engine in the world. It was the first engine in the world to use both the expansive force of steam and a vacuum at the same time.
- The Spitfire Gallery tells the story of the Spitfire, from its innovative design and cutting-edge technology that played a key role in the Second World War, to its lasting legacy on the city of Birmingham.
- At a time when climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the planet, the Our Changing Planet Gallery looks at how humans have transformed the world and how these changes are affecting wildlife and the environment across the globe.
- Birmingham has always been a city in motion, but what made it such a major hub of transport during the industrial revolution? You can find out first hand by seeing some of the remarkable machines that made it all happen. Unravel the remarkable story of Birmingham’s transport revolution. Learn about the complex web of canals, roads and railway networks that connected Birmingham to the rest of Britain, and hear some of the stories from the people who made, used and ran them.
Enter our Thinktank competition and be in with a chance of winning this amazing day out for your family.
