Stuart Street, Cardiff, City of Cardiff, Wales

Tel: +44 02147483647
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Techniquest is a science discovery centre, designed to engage people of all ages in science through interactive exhibits and live demonstrations. As well as 160 hands-on exhibits, we host a unique programme of special events for families and leisure groups. This includes captivating shows in the Science Theatre, fascinating tours of the universe in the Planetarium and a chance for visitors to experiment in the Laboratory and Discovery Room. During term-time, we run theme weeks for school groups on a range of topics aimed at every age from pre-school to post-16. There is also an active outreach programme, through which Techniquest activities and equipment tour venues throughout the UK. We are a registered educational charity. This means that nobody takes a profit. We are funded partly by the Welsh Assembly Government and partly by the activity of Techniquest Enterprises Limited (TQE). TQE is the trading company of Techniquest, whose business includes the gift shop, corporate functions and catering, franchising, and the worldwide sale and hire of exhibits. We opened in 1986, with thirty-five exhibits in a city centre shop-front opposite Cardiff Castle. After just a couple of years Techniquest took the opportunity to move into the Cardiff Bay development area, where the exhibition size doubled. In May 1995 Techniquest opened the doors of its brand new building the UK s first purpose-built science centre, located on the waterfront in the heart of lively Cardiff Bay. Techniquest has an in-house workshop team that design, build, install and maintain our exhibits. Techniquest Enterprises Ltd. (TQE) sell and hire out exhibits to other institutions and have developed a customer base that extends across the globe. TQE have supplied individual exhibits and complete exhibitions to organisations as diverse as museums, science centres, heritage parks, stately homes and theme parks. The client list includes major institutions in more than 30 countries worldwide. We have had 2.5 million visitors since we first opened in 1986. Every year about half a million people around the world get a Techniquest experience of some kind.....

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