Illuminate: How Science Comes to Light
Get ready to host an epic interactive light adventure!
Museum Victoria’s Illuminate: How Science Comes to Light explores the science behind the fastest traveller in the universe – light. Ignite your visitors’ senses and learn through up to 13 hands-on interactive exhibits, exploring the nature of light, what we can do with it and how we see.
In this vibrant festival-themed exhibition, visitors will be encouraged to explore visual perception and illumination through colour, sound and action. Learn how light behaves, where it comes from, how it reflects and refracts and what tools we’ve invented to harness it. The whole family can get involved, playing alongside each other, learning and sharing new insights about light.
Virtual Tour of Illuminate: How Science Comes to Light, Scienceworks, Melbourne, 2022
-
The Refractory: Use tools that bend light to make things appear bigger or closer so that we can see things better.
Sensor Sonic: Dance through sensors to make percussive beats, spin dials to program music with colour and scan barcodes to create your own soundscape.
Wonder Vision: Disappear behind an invisibility shield and find out how our eyes see by playing with a simple camera that turns everything upside down.
Chroma Zone: Mix assorted colours by adding or removing parts of the visible light spectrum.
Light & Shade: Light travels in a straight line and when it is blocked, a shadow is cast. Grab your friends and family, get up on stage and dance with shadows.
Mirror Mirror: Create patterns of colour with a giant kaleidoscope and experiment with your appearance using a mix of image-morphing mirrors.
Gallery
Contact us
Exhibition specifications
- Available now.
- The exhibition can be scaled to suit spaces from 200 - 600 square metres (2,150 – 6,450 square feet).
- Ceiling height flexible, but minimum 4 metres (13 feet) recommended.
- Up to 13 interactive exhibits available.
- Minimum 12 week hire period.
Audience and outcomes
The exhibition is designed for families with children aged 6–10, however there are many exhibits with open-ended creativity which will appeal to visitors of all ages. Outcomes for audiences include excited play, developing a tinkering mindset and having a shared experience.
STEM Areas:
- Science as a human endeavour
- Chemical Sciences
- Physical sciences
- Design and Technologies
- Capabilities: Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social
Tour itinerary
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
8 November 2023 to 28 April 2024
Education resources
