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Interview with Anna Sheridan: Education Director

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BS: Or just science museums in general.

AS: I've just come back from one in the States actually a science museum which is also an interactive science centre. And - I think one of the things that was different with that compared to us. Now I have to say right at the beginning that this is an enormous science centre so they get you know, getting on for I think it's something like 600,000 people per year whereas we're on about 185,000 a year. But one of the things that really struck me was the way - and it's also - because they've got more space as well - that they were tackling really up to the minute subjects. So they had - a display and then an interactive, sort of video screen and, and bits where you could write things and everything about what you felt about stem cell research. So - I thought that was really - really exciting. It was new and it was looking specifically at things - not just things that are current in scientific research but also things that people know about. Because you know there's plenty of things that are current in research that people wouldn't even ever know they were going on because they're not - they don't make the news for whatever reason. Whereas things like, you know stem cell research is a big issue at the moment. And, to have an exhibition on that is wonderful. So, so maybe - but again that might be because of space and because there's a woman who works on that in the city that I went to and so it's quite a big thing there, that they've got this quite a famous person who's sort of doing that research. But I have no id- I mean I don't know enough about science centres in Britain so.