Catalyst - Science Discovery Centre

Catalyst - Science Discovery Centre
Gossage Building
Mersey Road
Widnes
Cheshire
WA8 0DF
England

Website

www.catalyst.org.uk

E-mail

info@catalyst.org.uk

Telephone

0151 4201121

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Catalyst is an interactive science centre and museum devoted to chemistry and how the products of chemistry are used in every day life. Our key aim is to make science exciting and accessible to people of all ages and to inform them about science based industries and their role in our lives, past present and future.

Venue Type:

Museum, Science centre

 Opening hours

Summer Opening Times (February half-term until the end of October)

Weekdays (Tuesday-Friday) 10.00am to 5.00pm and Bank Holiday Mondays except at Christmas and New Year. Last admission is at 4.00pm

Weekends 11.00am to 5.00pm. Last admission is at 4.00pm

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Opening Times Winter (November - February before half term week)

Weekdays (Tuesday-Friday) 10.00am to 4.00pm and Bank Holiday Mondays except at Christmas and New Year. Last admission is at 3.00pm

Weekends 11.00am to 4.00pm. Last admission is at 3.00pm

Closed Mondays except during half-terms, Easter and in August, when special events are planned and we are open 10.00am to 5.00pm

Closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day, but we ARE open on the Bank Holiday Mondays at Christmas

See website for details

 Admission charges

See website for details.

Discounts

  • Museums Association
 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Parking for coaches
  • Picnic area
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
  • Toilets
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
  • Children's play area
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Induction loops in exhibition spaces
  • Touch exhibits
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Catalyst - Science Discovery Centre
Gossage Building
Mersey Road
Widnes
Cheshire
WA8 0DF
England

Website

www.catalyst.org.uk

E-mail

info@catalyst.org.uk

Telephone

0151 4201121

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

The collection consists of nearly 7,050 individually numbered items and groups including objects, archive material and photographs. The objects range from test tubes to a 20 ton cast iron caustic soda finishing vessel and the archives include company documents of all kinds, product brochures and general ephemera.

The photographic collection documents products and processes, company history, social activity and local history.

We also have collected some local social history objects which have helped to give a human context to the collection as a whole.

The collection has concentrated, in terms of industry, on the salt based chemical industries of Merseyside, South Lancashire and North and Mid Cheshire, along with other chemical industries that have arisen in these areas. Our social history collection has been confined to Widnes and Runcorn and its environs.

Collection details

Social History, Science and Technology, Costume and Textiles, Archives

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Catalyst - Science Discovery Centre
Gossage Building
Mersey Road
Widnes
Cheshire
WA8 0DF
England

Website

www.catalyst.org.uk

E-mail

info@catalyst.org.uk

Telephone

0151 4201121

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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 Face to face resources

Science Club

http://www.catalyst.org.uk/visit/sciclub.htm

Science exploration activities on the second Saturday of each month 11.00-13.00, suitable for young people 11-14 years old.

How to obtain

Workshops are free but booking is essential by calling 0151 4201121.

Catalyst - Science Discovery Centre
Gossage Building
Mersey Road
Widnes
Cheshire
WA8 0DF
England

Website

www.catalyst.org.uk

E-mail

info@catalyst.org.uk

Telephone

0151 4201121

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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