Sciencentre

I absolutely loved the science centre. I had nearly as much fun as the 2 kids with me. From the forensic room where you have to discover the who, when and how of a crime scene to the many amazing interactive activities. Riding a bike and seeing your skeleton appear in the mirror is a kid favourite. Hair standing on end from electricity to the room of mirrors. It’s all an extremely fun day out and educational. Highly recommend taking your family. Some exhibits do change from time to time.

The Science Centre is such a cool place and I am not afraid to say that I am a 22 year old young women but still find myself acting like a child when I enter places like this.
I am a «creative type», so you would think someone like me would not be into a science centre but you could not be more wrong. Maybe it is because I lack the scientific/​logical brain therefore everything I see here looks magical. Maybe if I understood everything, I would get bored but thankfully I am simple minded and can enjoy this stuff as much as any kid. You will learn about physics, chemistry, solar energy and all kinds of different fact at the Sciencentre.
They also have exhibitions that change fairly frequently which is good to keep people coming back. I will admit, I do not follow these exhibitions religiously but if you have a science loving kid, it would not be a good idea to keep up with what exhibitions are on to know when to bring them here, all of this information is on the website.
So there you have it, you absolutely do not need to be a kid to go to the Sciencentre, you just have to let your inner child come out and let yourself be amazed by the magic of science.

The Sciencentre is one of the coolest places to take a kid in Brisbane.
There’s always something new and different to try and OMG the kids accidentally learn stuff! I love science but not everyone in my circle agrees, so it’s delightful to watch young eyes sparkle when they learn from experiements dealing with sound, vibration, light etc. It’s a beautiful thing.
Make sure you get into the centre in 20 102 as the QLD Museum celebrates its 150^th anniversary with some excellent displays and activities.

The Science Centre blew my mind when I was just a wee young pup. I remember experiencing optical illusions and learning things about baby physics and having a grand old time running through the halls.
The demonstrations they have set up aren’t anything you couldn’t conjure up in your own home with a little bit of know how, but they’re still informative, fun, and oft times bewildering. If you’ve ever wanted to know why when you empty the bath a tiny tornado forms in the water, or how a car engine works, you can find out here by playing and experimenting with the demonstrations. My workplace became infinitely more fun after discovering that if I spin on my swivel chair and kick my legs out and pull them in intermittently, I can speed up or slow down according to my liking. Golly!
If you’re a science brain, maybe you won’t find the Science Centre as cool as the rest of us with little to no understanding of such things. However, as a woman in my mid twenties, I love going in there and coming out feeling like I have solved some of the simple mysteries of the world. Admission cost me $ 20.

Don’t listen to people who tell you that the science centre is for kids! For years, I’ve walked past the Science centre a little wistfully — peering sadly at their latest exhibits, wondering if they could tell me how the telephone works. For years I thought kids were just playing pretend telephones when they strung up two Styrofoam cups with a string. I didn’t realise that ‘something about vibrational energy along the string and magic’ really meant that the kids could hear each other speaking.
Finally my husband got tired of my wails of ‘If only I studied high school physics I’d know all this stuff!’ and took me to the museum. We had the most romantic and hilarious time of our lives. Looking back, I suppose you do need the right group dynamic. It helped that I genuinely wanted to find out about the mechanics of solar power, car batteries, fax machines and the Morse code. It also helped that my husband is a physics genius with a sense of humour and relates everything back to how a specific X-​Men power could theoretically work.
This is not the sort of museum where you observe stuff behind glass boxes. It’s a pretty full on interactive experience. You have to pull levers, push things, build things and solve puzzles. There’s even a station where you practise throwing a baseball to test your velocity against your accuracy.
Sadly, the Science Centre is temporarily closed for renovations. It will be opening up again in the new year so mark this down as a romantic activity for two in the January period.