Welcoming over 285,000 annual visitors across eight interactive zones, W5 is Northern Ireland’s award-winning science and discovery centre. Position your business alongside one of the highest footfall leisure and education destinations on the island of Ireland, and explore our unique branding and standalone zone sponsorship opportunities.
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W5’s Marvellous Machine delves into the wonderful world of mechanical engineering, with fun, hands-on interconnected exhibits using all manner of cogs, gears, levers, and springs to bring learning to life.
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W5’s new Energise zone, supported by SSE Airtricity, challenges you to use your own physical power to bring energy-themed interactive exhibits to life. Through hands-on, interactive exhibits, learn about the different types of renewable energy and why it’s important to develop them.
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Sponsored by Belfast Harbour, Move It allows you to try your hand at a series of hands-on experiments that explore real-life engineering challenges relating to the motorsport and transport industries. From designing, building, and testing your very own model race car, to launching rockets and parachutes, there’s something for everyone – from aspiring engineers to those who just like to make things move.
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Step into Build It and find out about the physics and forces that keep buildings standing. Discover the hidden infrastructure that keeps modern cityscapes ticking. See brilliant buildings being designed on screens using Computer Aided Design (CAD) or use your own building ideas to create arches, columns, domes, towers, pyramids, and much more!
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W5’s new media production zone ‘The Studio’ will inspire budding filmmakers and the next documentarians and on-air talent. Unleash your imagination and try out real-life production techniques, including camera operating, presenting, storyboarding, lighting, and design in a range of interactive exhibits using the latest studio technology.
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Supported by Citi, discover the beautiful landscapes, wildlife, produce, and places that make Northern Ireland like nowhere else on earth. Journey through stunning scenery, rocky coastlines, and agricultural woodlands and get closer to nature through this captivating, digitally enabled zone that brings the great outdoors to life.
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Step inside a multisensory world of wonder in W5’s new Making Sense zone. Packed full of optical illusions and visual tricks, these mind-bending experiences are designed to push your senses to the limit.
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Step into MED-Lab – our interactive exhibition area developed in partnership with Almac – to explore the medical marvel that this is the human body and discover how medicines are developed. Learn all about the amazing systems that keep our bodies alive, and find out how doctors and scientists discover how our body works.
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From swashbuckling pirates and mermaids to Jungle Book adventures, a fairy tale market town to an enchanting secret garden where flowers magically spring from the ground, this fantastical living storybook land makes learning and literacy fun. Over 50 new interactive exhibits encourage little ones to imagine, explore, and experiment, but most importantly to play and have fun.
