Brighten up the winter holidays with hands-on science fun for the whole family. 

Explore the science of light and illusion through interactive activities like creating shadows, drawing silhouettes of friends and family, and experimenting with colourful projections in a shadowy city skyline. 

Expert Explainers also host mind-bending science shows packed with optical illusions and brain-teasing moments.

Power Hall: The Andrew Law Gallery 

Step into festive nostalgia inside the newly reopened Power Hall. 

Discover iconic real-life locomotives that inspired classic toy trains and Christmas model railways, then get creative by building your own engines with giant blocks in the Revolution Manchester gallery.

Operation Ouch! Brains, Bogies and You (until 4 January)

Catch this popular exhibition before it closes. 

Dive into a gross-but-brilliant medical adventure, journeying through a waxy ear canal, past sticky snot and into the wonders of the human senses. 

Poke around a giant eyeball, bang an enormous eardrum and get sneezed out of a giant nose in this unforgettable family experience.

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