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Kids Invited To Splash Out This Summer Holiday |
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Monday, 30 July 2007 20:28 |
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Summer is finally here and the fun starts for all the family at the award winning Kew Bridge Steam Museum with a host of new exhibitions and displays. Younger visitors especially are in for a treat during the coming holidays, where a great selection of free drop-in family activities are lined up, including a chance to get wet in the new Splash Zone. This interactive zone comprises four separate challenges for children to get involved in and allows them to get wet and wild in the process! Now is the perfect time to come down and explore what the museum has on offer for family entertainment as its FREE ENTRY for children fifteen and under.
Marvel at the 7 foot high interactive model of the Boulton and Watt beam engine, which sets kids the challenge of driving the engine to fill up the reservoir and save Daisy the Duck from flying away. For older children and adults the exhibit explains how beam engines work, as well as having a chance to drive it in exactly the same way as the real engine. A DVD of the actual engine will give clues to driving it and failing that a hidden panel will give full instructions.
Also on during this time:
- Get ready to step back in time at Kew Bridge Steam Museum, with a 1940s themed weekend, over the August Bank Holiday, 25, 26 & 27. Activities include a variety of wartime vehicles and demonstrations, tips on 'make do and mend', plus a special wartime menu in the café. The pumping station probably worked at its hardest during the Blitz in the Second World War with the Cornish engines and diesels working to cope with burst water mains plus the demand from the fire fighting service. Visitors will be issued with a replica of a special pass that was needed in order to get into the pumping station during the war, based on one from the museums collection and the museum entrance will be sandbagged.
- The Cornish Engines Experience Weekend
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