Catalyst - Science Discovery Centre









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
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
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
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Telephone
0151 4201121
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