Very varied exhibition with a cool games floor (Discovery Museum (Newcastle upon Tyne))

Member Name: joerobo

Product:	Discovery Museum (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Date:	26/05/09 (14 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Free entry

Disadvantages: Mainly permanent exhibitions

The discovery museum which has mostly all permanent exhibitions about British history from the Victorians onwards. Much of their exhibitions concern the time from the world wars onwards however. Admission here is free but I would be surprised if many people were not more than happy to pay to go in because it is a great museum and there is lots to enjoy inside.

As you walk in, there is a shop with various things in. Some of these are typically museum shop like things (such as rubbers with the discovery museum printed on) however they also sell original things such as a contraption which fires a rocket made out of a bike coke bottle up into the sky.

The most apparent thing after the shop is a massive ship on your left, which you can see in the picture. Though it is not that big, it seems giantgantuous to little kids (in a good way). There are then a few floors of exhibitions and on the top floor a games section with all sorts of innovative games, such as bikes where you have to pedal as fast as possible to light as many lights as possible.

Summary: Great fun