Science Museum Live on Tour! (tour – St Albans)
In publishing there’s something called an advertorial. It looks like a piece of unbiased editorial journalism but conceals a hefty advertising plug for some particular company or organisation. Theatrically speaking, Science Museum Live on Tour! is a staged advertorial. Fortunately for the children who are the target audience, it’s also great fun.
They also show us video clips of notable pieces from the Science Museum’s collections, both in London and in countryside storage. There are sound and lighting effects as well as amusing cartoon-style recreations of some scientific battles of the past. It’s good to see Robert Hooke as well as Isaac Newton given a chance at the limelight. A Tardis-like structure forms the background for the experiments, which the adults seem to enjoy just as much as the children.