Our Exhibition Building is the centre of Esplora – with six galleries on two floors packed full of interactive exhibits, there’s enough to keep you busy for days!
Each 90-minute Exhibition session booking is divided into three 30-minute timeslots, and you can book one gallery area per class per timeslot. Each gallery area can hold up to 25 students, and the Bookings staff can guide you as to which galleries are most appropriate for your students.
Below is a sample schedule for a school booking for 4 classes, using the basic package of 1 Exhibition session and 1 Activity session.
Important: All students in a particular class must remain in the same gallery as their class teacher during their visit – students are not permitted to roam freely around the Exhibition building unless they have booked a Science Quest.
Extension Activities
Have a look at our Resources page to find investigation guides that your students can carry out in the Exhibition building, and extension material that they can use afterwards at home or at school.
Gallery Guide
Use this section to learn more about each gallery in the Exhibition building before choosing three to book for your Exhibition session.
Hall of Motion
Arguably our noisiest gallery, the Hall of Motion is full of Newton’s laws in action. Your students will press, pump, climb, dangle, drop and fly their way through this gallery.
Coming soon: resources to use before, during and after you visit the Hall of Motion.
Optics Gallery
With Optics as its theme, there’s lots to explore in this gallery, including one of our most popular exhibits, the Colour Absorption Room.
Coming soon: resources to use before, during and after you visit the Optics Gallery.
Hall of Eco-Life
Build a structure on the earthquake exhibit in the Earth section, assemble a heart in the Human Body section, and in between learn about air and water currents, the environmental impact of your house, and how nutritious yesterday’s lunch was.
Coming soon: resources to use before, during and after you visit the Hall of Eco-Life.
Electricity and Magnetism Gallery
The left-hand counter contains magnetic exhibits, and the right-hand counter (as well as the four free-standing exhibits) have the theme of Electricity. The plasma ball is an eye-catching favourite, but the magnetic pendulum and the alarm system circuit are sure to capture your students’ attention.
Coming soon: resources to use before, during and after you visit the Electricity and Magnetism Gallery.
Engineering, Telecommunications, Media and Chemistry
Build a track like a DJ, build a wooden structure taller than yourself, solve the colour sudoku, create compounds on the interactive Periodic Table… there’s so much to do, no-one will want to leave!
Coming soon: resources to use before, during and after you visit the Engineering Gallery.
Music and Illusion
These two rooms face each other, and due to limited space we suggest splitting one class across the two rooms (provided there is at least one adult chaperone in each room).
The Music room provides lots of opportunity to explore sound, and not only make it but also visualise it. Between the musical instruments, the recordings of Maltese instruments and the sound tube, it can be hard to hear yourself in this room!
The room of Illusion contains fascinating and mind-bending illusions. Experience how colour deceives your brain’s sense of smell, how hot and cold can trick your brain into feeling pain, and don’t forget to ask your Explainer to show you how to fly! (Send us a photo!)
Coming soon: resources to use before, during and after you visit the rooms of Music and Illusion.