Scienceworks Museum (Melbourne)
- Scienceworks Museum (Melbourne)
Scienceworks is a science museum in Melbourne, Australia. It is a division of Museum Victoria which administers the cultural and scientific collections of the State of Victoria. [ [http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria] .] Its sister museums are Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and the Royal Exhibition Building. It is located in the suburb of Spotswood.
Opened in March 1992, Scienceworks is housed in a purpose-built building "styled along industrial lines" near a historic sewage pumping house, constructed in 1897, whose steam engines form an associated exhibit. [ [http://www.discontents.com.au/words/scienceworks.php Sherratt, Tim. "SCIENCEWORKS - A REVIEW". "Historical Records of Australian Science", vol. 9, no. 4, December 1993, pp. 387 -388] ]
Displays and activities offered by the museum include hands-on experiments, demonstrations, and tours. The "lightning room" is a 120-seat auditorium that presents demonstrations about electricity, featuring a giant Tesla Coil, capable of generating two million volts of electricity, producing three metre lightning bolts. The museum also has the only digital planetarium in the southern hemisphere.
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External links
* [http://museumvictoria.com.au/scienceworks/ Scienceworks website]
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