Pop up science on the high street
Tonight’s post comes to you written on a train on my way home from a lovely day out in Cambridge, went punting with the family! And whilst we were wandering around the beautiful city, I spotted this in a window of a bank… Could this be a new way of introducing science to the high street? Making it very accessible as literally part of somewhere people use all the time! Potentially even a fun reason to bring children to the bank with their parents?! Unfortunately, I only saw this in the evening, so didn’t get the chance to go in and check it out myself. But I was really curious to find out how this little pop-up science centre came about, and went on a little google hunt! In October 2015 Cambridge Science Centre first introduced and hosted a town centre takeover, where science communicators took exciting and interactive exhibits to a range of locations around Cambridge, including the one at Barclays. I've got no idea if they kept the pop up science ...