Sun Fun IN The Luminous Zone

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

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Marshmellows cooking in a solar oven

Visit the hottest place to be this summer. This summer the WA Museum - Albany will be exploring all things sun:

  • Challenge your family and friends to a ‘duel in the sun’. Scorch down the track and see if you can set the Inaugural Solar Gain Speed Record. Design, build and race your own sun speedster in the Solar Gain Solar Car Challenge and win some great prizes. ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE??
  • Photosensitive Masterpiece: step into the darkroom and get creative. Use the power of the sun to develop your own unique piece of artography!
  • Now Your Cooking! Don’t bake your body this summer…… bake a cake or an egg or melt delicious marsh-mellows using the incredible energy of the sun. Come in and help us bust the EGGSTRAORDINARY myth. Find out why solar cooking is the way of the future.
  • Sunflower Fantasies! Did you know that the tallest sunflower ever recorded was a massive 26 feet, four inches or 8.0 metres tall?  How green are your thumbs? Take home your own sunflower seedling, record its growth and share the photos and you could win some fantastic prizes. CAN YOU GROW THE EIFFEL FLOWER???.  Not  a gardener?  Then try your hand at creating sunflower inspired wall art or face masks.
  • Can you read a book by the light of a water bottle? Come along and discover how simple technologies  are being used to provide green energy around the world.
  • Play with light, mix colours and be amazed at how light spectrums colour our world.
  • Juniors will be enthralled by the Little Eco Footprints Corner  where they can play and explore in a green world.
  • If the sun stopped shining would troglobites take over the world? Discover the weird and wonderful animals that live in a world of total darkness… all the time…..never seeing light….really!

Ages: All ages
Cost: Entry by donation, some activities will attract a materials fee ($2 to $10)
Bookings: Not required

Programs are subject to availability. All children 12 years and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.