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A brand new interactive exhibition ‘Collider’, which offers visitors an exciting chance to ‘step inside the world’s greatest science experiment’, opens in the North West of England . It provides a unique combination of video, theatre, real artefacts and sound art to create a realistic exhibition that transports visitors to Geneva, behind-the-scenes at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The Science Museum’s Collider exhibition makes its first stop at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), Manchester, marking the beginning of its international tour.

The hugely-successful exhibition attracted over 50,000 people in the first two months alone during its recent London run.

Sponsored by STFC, the exhibition was developed in close collaboration with CERN, and has been designed with a creative team including an Olivier award-winning playwright and CGI film-maker.

John Womersley, Chief Executive of STFC, said: “The award of the Nobel Prize last year for the discovery of the Higgs boson has focused attention on CERN, and how experiments there are helping us understand the universe we live in. The Collider exhibition offers an opportunity for everyone in the region to see this work up close and to understand just how important a part physicists, engineers and technicians from all over the UK, including the north west, have played in this science.”

Collider will run at MOSI from 23 May – 1 October 2014. For more information, please visit MOSI’s website: www.mosi.org.uk/whats-on/collider