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Science
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The Science Museum Wroughton is opening up one of its vast aircraft
hangers to the public, this weekend, for an exhibition following the
history and uses of wood and paper... |
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The
Science Museum is opening up one of it's seven vast aircraft hangers
to the public, this weekend, for a new exhibition.
The theme is wood and paper and the exhibition follows a trail from
the origins of the wood industry and wood management through to its
uses in printing, paper making and recycling.
As the storage facility for the London Science Museum, the Wroughton
Science Museum holds the largest and heaviest objects in the collection.
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| Vintage
cars, bicycles and storage racks stuffed to the rafters. |
Over 18,000
objects are in storage including space rockets, fire engines, bicycles,
scientific equipment and aircraft.
But on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 October the star of the show will
be the last Fleet Street hot metal printing press, the iconic 1930s
Wood Press, which rolled off millions of newspapers in its lifetime.
Weighing in at a massive 140 tonnes the press was pulled out of the
old Daily Mail building in 2001 and literally resurrected at the Science
Museum Wroughton.
A son et lumiere show, being shown for the first time, promises
to bring the giant press to life.
Screened hourly the show will take you back to the heyday of Fleet
Street with real and spoof Pathe News Reels, slide shows and a muti-sensory
sound and light demonstration.
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| The
last Fleet Street hot metal printing press - the iconic 1930s
Wood Press |
To accompany
the exhibition there will be a weekend of events including hands on
paper making, interactive games, quizzes, videos and a giant jigsaw.
Plus, on Saturday only, there will be guided walks with talks
on coppicing and wood management, in nearby SSSI Clouts Wood, with
the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and kids workshops using paper and wood
put on by Wiltsplay.
And of course there'll be the chance to wander around the Science
Museum Wroughton's Aladdin's Cave of amazing objects including vintage
cars, bicycles and storage racks stuffed to the rafters.
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SCIENCE
MUSEUM WROUGHTON
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Woodcycle
Weekend |
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25
- 26 October
10.00 - 16.00 |
| Where |
A4361
Devizes Road (follow brown Science Museum signs)
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Use the FREE vintage bus service from Steam - Museum of the
GWR in Swindon |
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Free
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