Scienceworks

Scienceworks Museum and Melbourne Planetarium offer exciting, interactive science experiences that suit every age group. Scienceworks combines science and technology through a variety of 'hands on' exhibits, activities, tactile displays and highly interactive touring shows.

Travel through space and time, discover how your heart and lungs work, and challenge Cathy Freeman to a ten-metre sprint. Have a hair-raising experience and learn about electricity and lightning through spectacular demonstrations in a live show; highlights include a 2 million volt lightning demonstration.

Part of Scienceworks comprises the historic Spotswood Pumping Station, an early industrial complex with enormous working steam pumps. Classified by the National Trust, the station and its pumps helped nineteenth-century Melbourne get rid of its severe stench (satirists of the day called the city ‘Marvellous Smellbourne’).

Journey to the stars and beyond at Melbourne Planetarium, located in Spotswood. Shows are digitally-created to simulate space using images and special effects for an experience that immerses you in another galaxy. Sit beneath a 16 metre dome and experience the night sky in astonishing detail and stereo surround sound.