Visit Scienceworks this summer to see the Illuminate exhibition and celebrate the Spotswood Pumping Station with a Holiday Program that braves the stinky topics of Poo, Wee and Sewage.

We have prepared answers to all your poo-related ponderings. Find out just how important poo and wee are and where they go after they leave your body. Marvel at the fascinating science and engineering around this stinky subject.

There’ll be a free poo-themed amphitheatre show full of spectacular demonstrations and a range of interactive activities happening daily.

Don’t forget to visit the Illuminate exhibition, the Lightning Room, Planetarium and go on one of our daily tours.

Illuminate
Extra with admission - Daily | $10-$12

Illuminate is a new exhibition showing for a limited time at Scienceworks! It explores the science behind the fastest traveller in the universe – light. Ignite the senses and learn through hands-on interactive play. What is light, what can we do with it and how do we see? In this vibrant festival-themed exhibition you will explore visual perception and illumination through colour, sound and action.
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From Sandwich to Sewerage
noon and 2pm daily | Included with entry.

Follow the epic odyssey from food to poo and down the loo. From Sandwich to Sewage follows the pathway our food takes from being crushed in the mouth to mushed through the body and flushed down the loo.

STEM Lab Activities

10am to 4:30pm daily | Included with entry

Thought you knew everything you wanted to know about poo? Think again! Head to the STEM lab to find out how fascinating and far reaching this material really is.

Poo Library
10am to 4:30pm daily | Included with entry

Choose a comfy seat and take some time out while you browse our collection of poo-related picture books. You’ll find out that hippos use poo to navigate, where it all goes when you flush, and that some animals have poo that is uniquely theirs.

DooDoo Desk
Runs subject to staff availability.

Visit our lovely volunteers to engage with some interactive explorations of digestive products and the science thereof.

Ask Us Poo Pop-Up

11am to 3pm daily | January 16 to January 22

For one special week in January we’ll be welcoming our friends from the Ask Us team so they can answer your most pressing poo queries.

Planetarium shows

11am, noon, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm daily | $9 entry, $7 Museum Members
Book into the Planetarium and enjoy an out-of-this-world show.

11am – Tycho Goes to Mars
noon – Solar System Odyssey
1pm – Moonbase One
2pm – Ticket to the Universe
3pm – Starlight

Lightning Room shows

Daily | $9 entry, $7 Museum Members

What’s With The Weather?
11am - How do only three ingredients create weather? Discover how water, air, and the sun create lightning, rainbows, clouds, rain and other wild weather.

Lights Energy Action!
noon, 1pm, 2pm Have an electrifying experience during Lights Energy Action!—our gameshow-inspired

lightning show.

Pumping Station tours

11.00am, 1.00pm | Included with entry

Hear some of the smelly stories from the straining well and explore the magnificent engine room as you marvel at the engineering feat that helped overcome the stench of 19th century Melbourne in our daily Pumping Station toursHear some of the smelly stories from the straining well and explore the magnificent engine room as you marvel at the engineering feat that helped overcome the stench of 19th century Melbourne in our daily Pumping Station tours.

Collection Store tours
noon, 2pm | Included with entry

Go on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Scienceworks Collection Store to see some of the 40,000 collection items stored at Scienceworks and listen to the stories of these rare and unique items.

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