BS You compared Techniquest to a museum, what was the phrase you used?
HW A children's museum that does science. Well, children's museums are, in the States, mainly. I mean, there is Eureka in Halifax in the UK. But, children's museums range, over a huge range of scales and topics in the States. From things which are almost a glorified coffee morning, toddler morning sort of, arrangement where, there are slightly bigger slightly better toys to things like the, Children's Museum of Indianapolis which is fantastic. It's, it's a huge building, it has areas on science that are generally better than most science centres. It has areas on archaeology. It's all there for children to do things. It has sort of role-playing in different careers type of things, which is an element of children's museums.
But, it's the rooting in the community that's most important, and one of the things they were telling me about, we had some visitors from there, about 6 months ago. They've taken on this project, as the children's museum. They had a problem where, you know, when all the cars in America were bigger and there was a gas station on every, every corner of every block in every major city and these had buried tanks which were then, just concreted over, and things were built over the top but the tanks were still there. And there was an explosion danger but there was also the petrochemicals leeching out into the soil, poisoning the soil. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis applied for funding from government to do remedial work on these, to take them out and to fix it. And what's that got to do with a children's museum but it's fantastic that they can do it. So, I think that, huge spectrum of children's museums in the States, so it's not like a museum here. There are children's museums around the world, which are like that. And it's just, it's the being rooted in the community that you're in, and the accessibility of what we do and the fact that it's done for the people who are, local without an agenda.