About the Festival

 

 

The British Science Festival is one of Europe's largest celebrations of science, engineering and technology, with over 250 events, activities, exhibitions and trips taking place over a week in September. Our Festival is unique among those in the UK as it moves to a different location around the UK every year. In the last few years it has taken place in York, Liverpool, Guildford, Birmingham and Bradford and in 2012 we'll be visiting Aberdeen in Scotland.

The programme of events offers something for everyone with activity for families and schools groups, adults looking for entertainment and stimulating debate or professionals interested in the latest research.

What you can expect from the
British Science Festival:

  • Wonderful Workshops
  • Exciting Exhibitions
  • Fantastic Field trips
  • Famous Faces
  • Heated debates
  • Discoveries and discussions
  • Plays and films
  • Bring along the whole family and get stuck into some hands-on science fun

The British Science Festival, bringing science to the streets...

You can see evaluations of  all the Festivals since 2005 here

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Meeting of minds-   The history of the Festival
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Where it all began...

The first meeting was held on 26 September 1831. This was the first of a series of annual meetings that has continued, broken only in some of the war years, for 150 years. The meetings from the start attracted the country’s leading scientists, and for many years were the forum at which major advances were announced.
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