Experience a fascinating, fun-packed day out at Thinktank, Birmingham science museum. From steam engines to intestines, Thinktank has over 200 interactive displays on science from the past present and future. This includes the state-of-the-art digital Planetarium where you can immerse yourself in the stars, without placing a foot outside! With a vibrant programme of entertaining shows, exciting workshops and extraordinary demonstrations there is enough to keep the whole family entertained.
Sporting Science at Thinktank
Fun for all the family! Discover how different parts of your body work in the ‘Things About Me’ gallery and see the latest advances in bioscience within the ‘Medicine Matters’ gallery. Join in our totally disgusting family science show The Gross Out Show! and explore the inner most secrets of your body that just might make your stomach turn. Don’t forget to pop along to the Planetarium and watch the brand new FULLDOME show Molecularium. Meet Oxy the oxygen atom and Hydro & Hydra, two hydrogen atoms, as they travel through deepest Space all the way down to the size of atoms…
The Sports Mad Science Show
Why do professional swimmers wear bodysuits? Why do athletes have to train so hard? Can you move fast enough to start a fire? Come along to find out the answers to all this and more, and be amazed by the science in sport! Maybe you could even set a new Thinktank record!
Weekends and school holidays
2.15pm
Thinktank theatre, Level 2
Free to Thinktank ticket holders
Early Years Events and Activities
The ‘Magnificent Marathon’ Storytelling
Come and join in the fun with our ‘The Magnificent Marathon’ story, specially designed for the under 8s.
Weekends and school holidays
Free to Thinktank ticket holders
Stay and Play
Thinktank runs exciting educational activities for under 5s. Join us for a 90 minute learning session full of fun, stories and galleries.
Advanced booking essential.
Minimum number of 8 children – adults goes free.
Sensational Sea Life Tour
In this multi-sensory experience, sight, sound, smell and touch are used to explore a range of creatures that live and have lived beneath the waves. Suitable for families and young people with sensory impairments.
Advanced booking essential.
Special Events and Activities
Why Wash? Tour
Join one of our lively Gallery Enablers for an exciting session looking at a variety of microbes that are just waiting to infect you! Find out what they can do to the human body and how we have tackled these diseases through time.
Free to Thinktank ticket holders
Weekends and school holidays, 1.00pm
Regular Events & Activities for All
All regular events and activities are FREE to Thinktank ticket holders
Live Silversmith Demonstrations
Our resident silversmith uses traditional Birmingham craftsmanship to create decorative items out of silver bullion. Join him for a lively chat and demonstration.
Most Saturdays. Thinktank Level 0, 10.00am – 4.00pm.
Full Steam Ahead
Every day our heritage team powers up a steam-driven engine. Watch these magnificent machines rumble into life, snorting steam and pounding with power.
Daily. Thinktank Level 0, 11.00am – 4.00pm.
Next generation LEGO Robolab
Program our LEGO robots to carry out challenges in our new workshop, which features the latest Mindstorm technology. Suitable for ages 8 and upwards.
£2 to Thinktank ticket visitors
Weekends and school holidays, 12.45pm
Five Favourites
Take a tour of the exhibitions with one of our lively Thinktank team members and examine five of their favourite exhibits. Tours last approximately 30 minutes. Please ask a member of staff for details.