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Thinktank
Birmingham Science Museum

Thinktank is Birmingham's science museum. It enables visitors of all ages to examine the past and present and to explore what the future may bring. Thinktank's aim is to help us all understand how science and technology may shape our lives and how we can use science and technology to make a better world.

 Birmingham - significant facts

From: www.askability.org.uk
 
 
Town & Country Festival, Coventry, Aug 2005


Exhibition space = 8000 m2
Visitor facilities (classrooms, theatre, shop, etc) = 4500 m2
Total public area = 12 500 m2

Four public levels with 10 galleries:

Level G2 = Making Things; Move It; Power Up
Level G1 = City Stories
Level G0 = The Street; Kids In The City; Things About Me; Medicine Matters; Wild Life
Level L1 = Futures

 
Planetarium (70 seats)
Theatre (120 seats?)
IMAX (340 seats?)
 
 
Opened: 29 September 2001
First full year = 225 000 visitors (95 000 adults, 61 000 children, 40 000 school children, 29 000 other)
 
2004-5 = 183 000 visitors for the year, 35% up on 2003-4 (target was 175 000)