The Science and Industry Museum hosts a sense-sational programme of interactive family fun this half-term

Running from Sat 15 to Sun 23 Feb, the Science and Industry Museum hosts a ‘sense-sational’ half-term extravaganza of hands-on excitement and cranial curiosity, featuring a wide array of shows, installations and interactive experiences inspired by the major new exhibition, Operation Ouch! Brains, Bogies and You.

Explore the spellbinding superpowers of animals in the museum’s captivating new science show, Wild Senses. From bees to bats and beyond, visitors can uncover the wondrous ways in which various creatures have evolved to use their razor-sharp senses for survival.

With immersive experiences and sensory activities happening throughout the museum, there’s plenty to keep everyone entertained this half term.

Opening on Fri 14 Feb, the museum’s latest blockbuster exhibition brings the hit BBC Children’s series Operation Ouch! to life following the incredible success of Operation Ouch! Food, Poo & You.

Families with children of all ages are invited on another super-sized adventure packed with brilliant biology and super-sized science. Get shrunk to microscopic size and embark on a medical mission through the brain of Operation Ouch! host Dr. Chris, discovering more about our senses through all of his fun-filled neural pathways.

Poke around inside a giant eyeball, identify scents in the smell library, bang on a giant eardrum and learn more about our grey matter with interactive games, challenges and fun facts guided by videos and illustrations of Dr. Chris, Dr. Xand and Dr. Ronx.

Book tickets for Operation Ouch! Brains, Bogies and You HERE.

Elsewhere, visitors can put their own senses to the test in the free, interactive Experiment gallery. Designed for the whole family to enjoy, Experiment provides a mesmerising hands-on experience in which you can see through walls, make music with your body, create glow-in-the-dark art and use a thermal camera to see in heat vision. Find out more HERE.

Open daily throughout the school holidays, the ‘ultimate hands-on gaming experience’ Power Up features over a hundred different consoles running the best titles from across five decades of world-changing entertainment. Parents and kids can wage intergenerational battles with each other on every platform from Atari and Sega to the PS5 and latest-gen VR systems, duelling on nostalgic classics including Super Mario and Sonic as well as newer releases like FIFA and Guitar Hero. Book HERE.

Click below to find out more about the Science and Industry Museum’s February half-term programme, with more details to be revealed soon.