Underwater Street

A unique hands-on discovery centre for families of children aged up to 10. Paint the Mini, pan for gold or take a stroll down Imagination Street. Experiment in the lab, step inside a giant bubble or design and create at the “make and take” tables. Six unique zones and a full service café provide the perfect venue for a family day out.

PHYSICAL ZONE

Take the challenge and climb our rock wall
Try and balance on our wobbly balance beams
Solve the puzzle in our giant 'body on' rope maze
Build a bridge strong enough to stand on
Design a paper plane and send it flying at 80 kmph from our paper plane launcher
Step into our Bubbles they're kid sized - so is our spinning top

IMAGINATION VILLAGE

Wannabe stars will be at home on the set of our T.V chat show
Children can work in Pizzaz our pizzeria- they can make pizzas, serve or even deliver them
Mr Ben's is always open with lots of choice of dress up clothes
The Pooch parlour for the animal lovers where they can pamper their favourite pets
Supermarket allows children to practice their commerce skills as they re-stock the shop and ring up each other groceries
Alarm passage - can you make it through the passage without setting off the alarms?

CONSTRUCTION AREA

Children can work on site as they use the diggers or wheel barrows on our kid sized scaffolding
Build a house - children can build a playhouse from wood
Test track - build model cars and then race them on our specially designed tracks - will it balloon powered , rocket or solar powered?

ART AREA

Paint our Mini - children can add their own design to our real car
Paint a portrait on our special see thru easels
Make it and Take it tables- craft tables

SENSORY AREA

Crawl through our underground water cave
Listen to a story in our specially designed wig wam and enjoy the light show.
Discover our feely boxes and guess what's inside
Take a sniff of our aroma wall, can you identify the smells
Pan for gold or play in our rock pool
Go fishing in our 16 ft canoe
Reverse Vision - Can you walk the line? - using our reverse vision telescope!!!

THE LAB

Come into the lab and experiment with magnets or electric circuits
Take a closer look through our video microscope
Venture into the dark area and discover light
Make your mark, leave your shadow on the wall in our flash shadow exhibit

Prices:
Weekends and school holidays £5.95 per person (adults and children), £20 for group of 4.
Weekdays during term-time £3.95 child £1.95 adult
Admission is for the whole day or you can leave and come back.

We are open every day during school holidays, closed Mondays the rest of the year.

Opening Times

2008 1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2008

* Open everyday in school holidays.

Grading

• VAQAS VB Attraction

Tickets Information

Road Directions

Follow signs to central tourist attractions and Mersey Ferries.

Public Transport Directions

James Street Station 300 metres away

Moorfields Train Station 500 metres away

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Children & Infants

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