Adventure Planet

National Museums Scotland

Adventure Planet is an exciting interactive children’s gallery at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. We have created an immersive space where children and their families can explore and learn about the natural world.

Fun and thought-provoking activities and interactive games spark ideas about caring for wildlife and the steps we can take to preserve the natural world in our everyday lives. The displays are highly interactive and combine tactile, sensory and digital exhibits with specimens from the museum’s natural sciences collection. We commissioned a series of illustrations which we transformed into large-scale wall and window treatments to create an immersive environment. Dressing-up costumes, games and tactile models all add to the fun of the Adventure Planet experience.

Highlights include a 3d submarine where visitors can learn about Scotland’s diverse sea life. Children can burrow into the roots of the life-sized model oak tree that forms the centrepiece of the Woodland section of the gallery, and come face-to-face with mammals and insects as they learn about the building blocks of ecosystems. A life-size stegosaurus skeleton cast forms the centrepiece of the Extinction theme and children can take on the role of palaeontologists in the interactive digital Dino Dig to reveal hidden fossils.

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