Join a facilitated conversation that will question some of the basic assumptions in the science centre movement, asking whether there are any essential ingredients for making a science centre. Our speakers will first present brief provocations, asking whether science centres really do need scientists, exhibits, buildings, or even science…

Participants will then join a table discussion around one of these questions (or an open, “free choice” table for new questions). Everyone will change seats at least once during the session so that everyone works on more than one topic. Collectively we will try and establish what it truly takes to be a science centre in the 21st century, stripping away some of the legacies of previous times.