Galleries
Gallery 1. All About Me
Our largest gallery is packed with interactive exhibits that bring the science of the human body to life.
Your pupils can discover how amazing and unique we are, as well as how (and why!) we can keep our bodies healthy. All About Me feature four areas:
- Measuring & Looking Closer: Pupils find out what makes them unique by measuring their height, stride, arm-span to zooming in to see their skin close up.
- Health Centre: Students can take on the role of health professionals; Nurse, Dentist, Midwife, Optician and Doctor in our bright, open role-play area. They can do an ultra-sound scan and x-ray, and find the wobbly tooth.
- Let’s get Active: Pupils discover how their body changes when they get active and learn how to keep our extraordinary bodies healthy.
- Our Brain & Senses: Students test and learn about the five senses and explore inside a giant nose (just hope it doesn’t sneeze).
Download the All About Me gallery guide
for detailed information
Complement your visit with one of our body-themed schools programmes:
Curriculum links:
EYFS:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Making Relationships, Self-Confidence and Self-Awareness.
- Communication and Language: Understanding.
- Physical Development: Moving and Handling, Health and Self-Care.
- Mathematics: Shape, Space and Measure
KS1: Science, Mathematics and Physical Education links:
- Identify, draw and label the basic parts of the human body.
- Describe the importance of exercise, eating the right amounts of different foods, and hygiene.
- Compare, describe and solve practical problems for lengths, heights, mass and weight.
KS2: Science, Mathematics and Physical Education links:
- Identify the different types of teeth and their simple functions.
- Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system.
- Identify that humans/animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.
- Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way bodies function.
- Identify and name the main parts of the circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.
Gallery 2. SoundSpace
Our SoundSpace gallery is a hands-on exploration into the science of sound and music.
In this colourful and immersive experience, children take a trip on a musical spaceship and meet Orby – and inquisitive alien from the Planet Zid.
SoundSpace provides a questioning environment where children can:
- Explore sources of sounds and how they are detected by our ears.
- Experiment with light and special effects and mix their own music on our sampling wall.
- Test out the different properties of sound, and how sound travels through different media.
- Create their own compositions, try out different instruments and take part in interactive performances.
SoundSpace provides a questioning environment where children test out the different properties of sound in a series of pods; create their own compositions and take part in interactive performances.
Download the SoundSpace gallery guide
for detailed information.
Curriculum links:
EYFS
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Making relationships, self-confidence and self-awareness.
- Communication and Language: Understanding
- Mathematics: Shape, Space and Measure
- Expressive Arts and Design: Being Imaginative
KS1
Music: Pupils will get the opportunity to play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically, and to experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
KS2
Music: Your pupils can improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Science: Children will have the opportunity to:
- Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating
- Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear
- Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it
- Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.
Gallery 3. Living & Working Together
A small world for small people!
Our Living & Working Together gallery provides a wonderful opportunity to role-play and investigate how things work in the adult world.
Children can explore how we live and work together as they become cashiers, post workers and mechanics. Pupils can try out some everyday grown-up tasks such as withdrawing (pretend) cash from a (real) cash machine, going shopping and making lunch.
At the heart of Living & Working Together is our Town Square on the ground floor, complete with fountain, high street and even a police box. The other main areas are:
- The Bank
Pupils can use a cash machine, visit the vault to crack the codes, and sit on a million pounds! All while using maths in a contextual setting. - Shop
Children can visit M&S to scan barcodes, use the tills and find out about where our food comes from. - Post Office
A chance for your pupils to pop on a Postal Workers coat to get delivering mail around the museum - The House
Domesticity has never been so much fun! Children can explore the kitchen, living room, bathroom, bedroom and attic. - Garage
Pupils can learn about different sources of fuel and mechanics, fill up with petrol and go through a car wash.
Download the Living & Working Together gallery guide for detailed information.
Curriculum links:
Early Years Foundation Stage
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Self-Confidence and self-awareness
- Communication and Language: Understanding
- Mathematics: Shape, Space and Measure
- Expressive Arts and Design: Being Imaginative
KS1:
Mathematics:
- Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least.
- Recognise and know the value of different denominations of coins and notes.
- Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value.
- Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money.
KS2:
Mathematics:
- Addition and subtraction: Add and subtract numbers mentally
- Measurement: Add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts.
- Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence.
Gallery 4. SoundGarden (Early Years)
SoundGarden is an indoor magical garden bursting with opportunities for play and discovery. Orby the Alien has used her magical powers to make visitors very, very small so that they can experience the sounds of nature in a giant-sized garden – not to mention the sights, smells and textures too!
All exhibits in SoundGarden have been designed to support the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
Download the Early Years Gallery guide
for detailed information.
Curriculum links
Early Years Foundation Stage
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Making Relationships
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Self-Confidence and self-awareness
- Communication and Language: Understanding
- Mathematics: Shape, Space and Measure
- Understanding the world: People and Communities
- Understanding the world: The World
Gallery 5. Desert Discovery (Early Years)
Desert Discovery is a special habitat inspired by the environment of the Mojave Desert in the USA, with its own quarry, campfire and oasis.
It is sensory experience packed with exhibits designed to support all areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Download the Early Years Gallery guide
for detailed information.
Curriculum links: EYFS
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Making Relationships
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Self-Confidence and self-awareness
- Communication and Language: Understanding
- Mathematics: Shape, Space and Measure
- Understanding the world: People and Communities
- Understanding the world: The World
Gallery 6. Spark
Our Spark gallery is different from the other galleries at Eureka! It’s interactive (just like everything else) but hosts temporary exhibitions that showcase the most exciting and creative digital technology from around the world.
The changing programme of exhibitions will challenge your pupils to think differently about art and how they interact with the digital world. It will encourage your class to be creative in new and unexpected ways.
Suitable for all Primary phases, the exhibitions in our Spark gallery are mesmerising and awe-inspiring, with links to the National Curriculum.
Download the Spark Gallery guide
for detailed information.
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