Winchester Science Centre 1

This interactive museum (which was called Intech when I frequented it in my 'youth') is essentially a warehouse with nice architecture that holds within its square-based prism walls a collection over over 100 interactive exhibits. And it's awesome!

The museum mostly deals with physics displays, with everything from a bridge demonstration to crane operation to lateral spin. There are also displays on chemistry and biology, with a few technological showcases such as how mobile phone networks work, too.

There was also a sports section where a camera tracked your jump height and predicted how long it would take for you to run a certain distance. I found it to be quite accurate, and I managed to cover the distance in around 3.6 seconds with a couple of 10 year old absolutely trashing my time. (I need to work out, okay?).

Here's a shortlist of all my personal favourite exhibits:

• The flight simulator
• The crane
• The giant plastic ball twirley-whirly transportation machine (twirley-whirly being a technical term)
• The sound amplification dishes
• The interactive astronomical displays
• The large-feature recycling exhibit
• The biological displays (killing the dummy is fun)
• The light-beam activity
• The infrared camera
• The cafe (foooood)

The que for the flight simulator is usually worth it. Except for the fact that their joystick is incredibly dodgy and you have an almost complete lack of control over the aircraft.