Life Science Centre
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Overview
Life Science Centre in Newcastle-upon-Tyne is the science centre for the North. At this award-winning centre visitors are encouraged to get stuck in, with interactive exhibits in its Brain Zone and Making Studios, audience participation in its Science Theatre and a laboratory with real chemicals for visitors to use in the Experiment Zone. Then explore the cosmos in the North’s biggest planetarium – soon to be complemented with a Space Zone exhibition (opening 26 October 2019).
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Location
Life Science Centre, Times Square, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Tyne & Wear, NE1 4EP
About the area
The metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear encompasses Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead, South Shields and Sunderland, as well as part of Hadrian’s Wall. The county is cut through by the two rivers after which it is named.
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