A Small Mind In A Big City: Science Jim, But Not As We Know It.

A Small Mind had decided to make his educational stop the Science Museum. Not having visited this museum for over fifteen years, I was fully expecting quite an alteration. And quite a change it was indeed. Most of the old items of interest however were still there including the Apollo capsule.

There were however many new items on display, including a projected globe which with a voice-over offered many hideous pieces of information about how we are helping to change the planet.

Also on display was a projection of the items we have sent into space.

Crap in Space.

Spread over six floors the Science museum was much larger than I remembered it and now housed a 3D cinema with various films like Deep Sea exploration and flying to the moon.

There was also a rather harrowing (just watching) 360 Red Arrow flight sim. They packed up to two people into a title housing, locked it and spun you like crazy. Enough to make you sick just watching, a small mind, although a very tough guy of course, made a run for it.

Launchpad was on the same floor and this was an outrageous kiddies playground, therefore lots of adult were having tremendous fun. This area was designed to create education through fun and very impressive it was. Everything was on offer from creating strange shadows, wave making, and launching a rocket just by twisting a handle very quickly. There were shrills of delight around, although it was unclear how much was being understood and educated from these experiments. However they were having fun and technically learning something and this is quite often the best way. A very clever area and well worth a visit, if only to play like a kiddie and have an excuse for it.

There was also an area of the museum just containing a collection of transport through the ages:

A section also featured the future technologies with the most interesting item being the prospect of future cycling helmets being made out of cardboard!

The final top floors left a small mind almost on his own in the exhibitions. These top floors offered medical and veterinary history with snapshots through the years offering how various medical environments looked. Those one hundred years back were probably what we were heading back to in anticipation of all the cuts.

However my tour of the Science Museum was at an end and an education and pleasure it had been, and I set off back across Hyde Park and took a picture of some hot chicks on my way.

However across the park something more interesting was developing and a small minds mind was about to boggle.

To be continued...