Glasgow Science Festival at the Riverside Museum

Glasgow Science Festival will be at the Riverside Museum daily from 6th to 16th June with dozens of free activities for all ages. We will be exploring how Glasgow's Transforming through the themes of transport, innovation, engineering and technology. Test your spatial skills building LEGO, play ‘laser golf’, try build your own perfectly balanced bridge and act out a comedy script with a robot. Activities change daily, so please check each day below for our timetable.

Venue: Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Rd, Partick, G3 8RS
Date: Thurs 6th to Sun 16th June
Time: 11-3pm daily
Booking- Public Audiences: No booking required
Booking- Schools: Booking required, see below.
Cost: Free

Schools booking information:

Enjoy a visit to the Riverside Museum and take part in the Glasgow Science Festival activities during self-led educational visits. Bookings are required and made directly with the Riverside Museum. For more info and how to book, visit the Riverside Museum website, email the Glasgow Life booking team on museums.schoolbookings@glasgowlife.org.uk or call 0141 276 9505 / 9506 (option 1, Monday–Friday). You are asking to book onto a Riverside self-led tour.

 

Cartoon family in front of the Glasgow Riverside Museum

Riverside Museum

Schools booking via the Riverside Museum

University of Glasgow EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account 

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Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is a man painting a picture of the lungs, various maths symbols and a light bulb.

Thursday 6th June

Join us for maths puzzles, art installations, funfair games and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is a black hole, and two engineers building a robot butterfly antenna.

Friday 7th June

Join us to listen to black holes, build with Lego, ultrasound scans and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is a woman with thought bubbles coming from her head and an X-ray of a head. Behind the building is a rainbow.

Saturday 8th June

Join us to light up liquids with lasers, experience illusions, build patterns and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is a black hole and various maths symbols. Behind the building is a rainbow.

Sunday 9th June

Join us for gravitational waves, microwave mazes, spectroscopes and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is a some seaweed and two people collecting litter for recycling.

Monday 10th June

Join us for Glasgow through time, plastics made from seaweed, memory technology and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is two lightnulbs and a man using a tablet.

Tuesday 11th June

Join us for evolution of light bulbs, creating bouncy balls, hand-controlled screens and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is two painters with paintbrushes, and a robot.

Wednesday 12th June

Join us for cybercrime investigations, splatter art, making historic inks and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is a man with a robot, and a woman using a microscope.

Thursday 13th June

Join us for robot acting, slinky sound waves, laser golf and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is a robot and a rocket.

Friday 14th June

Join us for space travel, stop motion films, comedy robots and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is a steam engine and a woman using a microscope. The sun is in the sky above the building.

Saturday 15th June

Join us to fight Vikings in VR, design a solar reflector, test your psychology and more!

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is an X-ray of a head and a rocket.

Sunday 16th June

Join us for laser golf, see your tongue with ultrasound, VR movie scenes and more!