Turbinia, built 1894, 1st steam turbine, once the fastest ship in the world. O, & 100s of people for Flog It! #flogit http://t.co/0QDQCqU87O
@Discovery_Mus 11:24am 25 May 2013
Science Day
10.30 to 4.00
Participate in a Science Storytime workshop, take part in a children’s tour of the museum highlighting famous inventors and make your own recycled invention in our drop in junk modelling station.
Big 5 Tour times: Starting at 10.30, 11.40, 1.00 (40 minutes)
Science Storytime: Starting at 10.30, 1.00 and 2.30 (1 hour)
Junk modelling: drop-in between 10.30 to 12.30 and 2.00 to 4.00pm
Cost: Junk modelling station free, tours £1 per child, science storytime workshops £2 per child (accompanying adults free)
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@Discovery_Mus 11:15am 25 May 2013
By the Turbinia ship
BBC Flog it
10:15am 25 May 2013
Lovely people wait for the doors to open
BBC Flog it
10:15am 25 May 2013
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The last message from Robert Mustard who died when the SS Princess of Sunderland sank in 1893.
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