Every day during half-term families can enjoy fun themed crafts, challenges for all ages, amazing science tricks and the chance to meet the characters from the Wizard of Oz.
In the Eureka! Theatre, take part in the Emerald City challenge. Children can follow an obstacle course through the Land of Oz, where they will have to solve puzzles that test their courage, heart and minds. In the Creativity Space, younger children can enjoy rainbow-themed activities designed especially for them.
Families will be able to make and take home fun Wizard of Oz crafts. Children can join with other visitors to decorate bricks for a giant Yellow Brick Road that will be displayed in the museum.
Around the museum, Eureka! Enablers will be on hand to demonstrate hands-on ‘Wizard’ science tricks including learning how to make a ‘witch’ melt and disappear, creating a tornado and making a rainbow. Enablers will also be available in costume at set times during the day to play with children and for photographs. Visitors can find out more details about events on the day at the Information Desk.
On weekends during February visitors can also enjoy Wallace and Gromit Invention Sessions. Families can work together to learn to make a motorised steam chair from an exclusive Invention Kit created by Aardman Animation. Due to small parts, the Invention Sessions are not suitable for children under the age of 7.
For more information about The Wizard of Oz at Eureka! visit the website on www.eureka.org.uk.
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For press information and/or photos please contact Allison Tara Sundaram on 01422 330069 or e-mail
allison.sundaram@eureka.org.uk.
Notes to the Editor
- Eureka! is designed especially for children age 0-11, with over 400 hands on exhibits inspiring them to learn about themselves and the world around them through imagination, play and discovery. For visitor information call 01422 330069, visit www.eureka.org.uk, read the Eureka! blog, All in a day’s play, become a fan on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
- The standard Eureka! ticket is now an Annual Pass. The Annual Pass entitles all of the party paid for on the day of the first visit to come back to Eureka! free of charge as many times as they like over the next 12 months. Adults*: £9.95, Children age 3+ : £9.95, Toddlers age 1-2: £3.45, Babies age 0-11 months: free. Read more about the Annual Pass.
- Eureka! is open daily 10am–5pm at weekends, during half-terms and holidays. Term-time Eureka! is open 10am –4pm Tuesday - Friday, and 10am-5pm Saturday and Sunday. The museum is closed on term-time Mondays and between 24-26 December.
- Eureka! is situated next door to Halifax railway station, just 10 minutes by car from junction 24 of the M62 and 17 miles from Leeds
- Eureka! is an educational charity no. 292758
