Scienceworks Museum (Melbourne)
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Scienceworks is a science museum in Melbourne, Australia. It is a division of Museum Victoria which administers the cultural and scientific collections of the State of Victoria.[1] Its sister museums are Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and the Royal Exhibition Building. It is located in the suburb of Spotswood,
Opened in March 1992, Scienceworks is housed in a purpose-built building "styled along industrial lines" near a historic sewage pumping, constructed in 1897, whose steam engines form an associated exhibit.[2]
Displays and activities offered by the museum include hands-on experiments, demonstrations, and tours. The "lightning room" is a 120-seat auditorium that presents demonstrations about electricity, featuring a giant Tesla Coil, capable of generating two million volts of electricity, producing three metre lightning bolts. The museum also has the only digital planetarium in the southern hemisphere.
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