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Interview with Darren Barnes - Exhibitions Director

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BD You say science demonstrations but where do you, what

DB Well there's, there. There are - lots of the science that we do, been around for a while. Lots of people have had to learn it at various stages. So there's a, whole resource of science demo books. We had, I don't know where it's gone now but we had some books that were, ( ) older books that sort of, you know in the 70's or something where they, they were something like, "Science Demos for the Technician" or something. So it was, a science technology's, a technician's resource book of "OK if you're doing this classic experiment" because there's loads of classic experiments, many many science centres have got them in you know, because they are classic and many of the science centres have grown up from people, advocates of science through education, where they've thought "Oh I want to do a wave tank." Well you know, I, you know, you've been using a wave tank for the last 20 years. I just need to kind of whack it in a case and make it so the kids can't break it but also they can interact with it and there you go, job done, one interactive science exhibit which talks about wave tanks. So there's a whole lot that's come in through. But then using, new technology as it comes in, so applying how a wave tank works and then thinking about well, you know, there's a new gadget that's just on the market that does this particular thing, I can apply that to the old-fashioned wave tank that did this and make it a much trendier funkier thing. So -