Group Trips
Award-winning interactive art works made from waste materials, teach Science through play.
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Conveniently located on Berrycoombe Road, next to Sainsbury’s in Bodmin, Discovering42 offers an immersive and unique space to explore interactive, upcycled artworks that bring physics to life in fun and engaging ways. Winner of the National Museum & Heritage Awards 2022 and selected as Best in Heritage 2023.
A standard visit lasts 2-4 hours, depending on your preferences. It includes a self-guided tour of the museum and a workshop. Smaller groups are usually split in half, with one group exploring the museum while the other takes part in the workshop before swapping over.
If you are bringing significantly more than 40 children, please email us. We recommend splitting these larger groups into three, with two groups taking part in collaborative workshops or challenge activities while the third explores the museum. The groups then rotate throughout the visit.
Payment can be made either by invoice after your visit or by card at the time of booking. Visits cost £12 per pupil, with supervising teachers and accompanying adults admitted free of charge. Workshops last around one hour and usually involve making something from upcycled materials for participants to take home. Our workshops cover a wide range of physics topics. Please take a look at the booking form to find out more. If you’re interested in a bespoke workshop on a topic we don’t currently offer, we’d be delighted to discuss this with you.
There is space for groups to eat packed lunches in our café area during your visit.
We also offer a budget-friendly option of a self-guided museum visit for £7 per pupil.
BOOK & CONFIRM YOUR TRIP USING THE FORM BELOW
OUR WORKSHOPS

VEG PIANO
Yes you read that right, in this workshop we create keyboards that are tuned with the resitive power of veg! You will learn about how a electronic keyboard works, and then apply this knowlage to wire up vegetable buttons and capacitors to manipulate the speed of the oscilating circuits.

LASER CUTTING
Unleash your creativity designing your own wooden masterpeice! Using vector graphics, you’ll arrange and customise intricate designs, which will then be brought to life with our laser cutter. After the cutting process, you can decorate your creation, transforming them into stunning, layered keepsakes. No prior experience needed—just a willingness to try something new!

SUSTAINABILITY
Delve into the issue of waste and how design can help. Unpack and reimagine products with a sustainability mindset.

ROCKETS
Apply Newton’s three laws of motion to build and launch a high-altitude, air-powered rocket, while also learning about how variations in nose cones and fins can allow you to reach new heights.

SPINNING ARTWORK
Learn how we can amplify electric signals with transistors to create a touch sensor and create your very own spinning artwork.

TEMPERING CHOCOLATE
Discover states of matter and explore how to manipulate the crystal structure of chocolate to create solids with different properties and experiment with holographic moulds.

MECHANICAL TOY
Reanimate old toys with a simple mechanism using cams or linkages to bring them to life (select which one when booking).

DAYS, YEARS AND SEASONS
Construct a model of the Earth to discover the dynamics behind day and night, a year and the changing of seasons.
KALEIDOSCOPE
Learn about refraction, interference patterns, reflections, and filters, then apply this knowledge to craft a light kaleidoscope.

MAGNETS AND MOTORS
We will get to grips with the mechanics of magnets, then move on to exploring their application by creating motors.

WATER-POWERED COMPUTERS
Explore the binary number system, then build a water-powered calculator capable of adding numbers together.

STEADY HAND GAME
Explore the principles of electrical circuitry, including the flow of electricity and the functioning of switches and LED lights.

BUG BOT
Create your own itsy twitchy robotic bug while learning about basic circuits and all the huge world possibilities.
Interactive artworks made from waste materials allow learning about Science through play while provoking conversations about our throwaway society and climate change.
WHERE?
Discovering42
Berrycoombe Road,
Bodmin,
Cornwall
PL312NR
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BY CAR
Parking at Berrycoombe Road Car Park opposite, other carparks are nearby.
BY TRAIN
Bodmin Parkway station then catch a bus (11) runs every 30mins get off at Mount Folly and its a short walk through town.
BY BUS
2min walk from Sainsbury
BY BIKE
Camel Trail to Bodmin 2min cycle to Discovering42.