Collider exhibition kicks off its international tour at Manchester’s MOSI
23 May 2014 02:47 PM
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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