Well BodyWorks has been open for nearly a week and approximately 12,000 people have visited the exhibition. Are you one of them? Get in touch with us and let us know what you think.
Here is a video from our opening event with some words of wisdom from the 3 doctors- Stephen, Rob and Gillian!
BodyWorks will open to Glasgow Science Centre visitors in less than 24 hours. Eeeeek! Before that we need to do the final, final finishing touches and host a BodyWorks launch event for over 500 people.
Our behind the scenes night with some of our passport holders went really well. Guests put the new exhibits through their paces - helping us spot some final tweaks to make. A big thank-you to everyone who came along… one of the comments of the night came from a youngster who told his mum, “that was absolutely epic!”
Here are some photos from the night
We are looking forward to welcoming our guests tonight for the launch and 10am tomorrow morning! #doorsopen
100 lucky passport holders are going to get a behind the scenes exclusive look at BodyWorks tonight. We are not 100% finished but this little taster session will give our visitors an idea of how great the new exhibition is!
It is all hands to the pump as the doors will open in just over 2 hours. Here’s how we are looking.
If you are coming along tonight please get in touch here, facebook and twitter to let us know what you think!
We cannot believe in just over 8 days we are going to be opening the doors to BodyWorks. However, for some lucky people they will be able to experience our brand new exhibition before anyone else.
130 of our Science Passport holders have been lucky enough to get an exclusive behind the scenes visit to the exhibition this Thursday. We are really looking forward to getting their feedback about BodyWorks. Until then, here are some shots from Floor 3.
Sharon tries her hand at Muccus Ninjas
Sprint track being installed…
The Live Lab is taking shape
Here is a video of one of the lenticular prints we will be having as part of the exhibition. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses (a technology that is also used for 3D displays) are used to produce printed images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles.
Here we get under Senior Sci Com Ross Hannah’s skin to see the muscle structure of his body. In our other print you can see the very bones of Morna Fisken in a skeleton version.
Over the next couple of days, the software for the Virtual Autopsy Table exhibit will be installed. We are very excited as we will be the only attraction in Scotland to have one and soon the whole of the UK (the British Museum temporarily has one, and very popular it is too).
The table has three real data sets and visitors will be able to peel back the layers to learn more about the body including identifying a cause of death.
With only 19 days until we open BodyWorks, we thought we would share some pictures of our progress on Floor 3.
Giant pin wall- much fun will be had with this
Here you can see a few exhibits- you can feel poo, see how long your intestine is and carry out key hole surgery!
With the leg bone connected to the knee bone, and the knee bone connected to the thigh bone…
Here you can see the sprint track, hamster wheel and how to mend a broken heart capsule
It is only one month to go until we open BodyWorks! To start the countdown in true style here is a timelapse video of Floor 3 and Elmwood building the set work!
Cant wait for March 28th!
Well it has been a busy couple of days here at the Centre as the exhibits have started to arrive from Germany. We are very excited to eventually have them here and cant wait to install them on Floor 3. Here is a few snaps for you.
One of the trucks arrive at GSC!
Like Santa’s sleigh on Christmas eve- truck full of lovely science goodies for us!
Giant hamster wheel- yes!
Cant wait for a go on this.
After a 1,659km journey from Nuremberg in Germany, the first of our BodyWorks exhibits are due to arrive at the Centre on Tuesday morning.
We are going to be like big kids on Christmas morning unwrapping our lovely new exhibits. Before they all got packed up, Matthias the Project Leader at Hüttinger and his two daughters gave some of the exhibits one final test. They looked like they had a ball and we can’t wait to have a go ourselves.
