Thank you to everyone who visited our pilot space in Green Lanes Shopping Centre, Barnstaple!
What did we do? Through hands-on exhibits, VR experiences and creative activities, visitors explored how local scientists learn about the climates of these distant planets – and what they teach us about our own Planet Earth.
Our impact: More coming soon about the impact of our pilot!
What’s next? We’re actively looking for longer-term premises, and in parallel we’ll be popping up in communities across the region with our touring projects. Keep an eye on our events page and social media posts for updates!
Quite simply the best 2 and a half hours family activity available in NDevon. Our group of 5 ranged in age from a 6 year old to a 71 year old. And we were all totally enthralled…
What a truly inspiring exhibition and welcoming, knowledgeable inspirational staff.
Have you visited? Please leave your feedback here! It really helps us to understand our impact!
Exhibition Resources
In the exhibition, we linked to various resources to help you learn more about each topic; about exoplanets, and Planet Earth.
You can find the full list of resources here! Here are some favourites from the exhibition, including the exoplanet VR videos link:
We hosted the People’s Emergency Briefing with 361 Energy during the exhibition.
The full 10 minute videos from each expert (really recommended viewing!) is available on the National Emergency Briefing YouTube channel.We’d urge everyone to attend a screening near them, and/or watch these videos to get informed.
The new documentary narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ‘How to Live On Earth‘ is also now live on YouTube! It explores how humans are learning to team up with nature to solve humanity’s biggest challenges!
Thank you to our funders and supporters:
We’re so grateful to The Fore, The Marketor’s Trust, North Devon Council, University of Exeter researchers Prof Nathan Mayne (and the Astrophysics Research Group) and Dr Stephen Thomson, along with Barnstaple Town Council for providing funding to support this exhibition and our pilot centre! Huge thanks to the Philip J Milton & Company Plc who supported consultations for the centre as part of their 40th Legacy Awards grants.
Huge thanks also to TCi who generously donated and delivered almost all the furniture in our exhibition, Chris Horrell for lending and setting up the amazing Starcloth in our Exoplanet Zone, Athena Jane Churchill (our first Artist in Residence!) for making the space look amazing (especially our Positive Potting Shed!), James Moss from the Woodshed Project for all his carpentry support, Martin Staniforth for delivering and installing his amazing creation in our Action Zone – the “Tree of Hope”, our trustee Olya Petrakova for lending us so much decor including theatre curtains and benches, Loki Dawson and our former trustee Celia Butler for all their support with PAT testing, and our brilliant volunteers Cal, Mark and Rob who have helped us with so much of the setup!
We used the new platform Tickts – they’ve been super supportive to help us make the functionality we need for our ticketing system, we’re really grateful!
