Glasgow Science Centre — Attraction in Scotland

I am writing this review on the basis of a mum and carer to my young daughter who has disabilities and uses her wheelchair when out and about.

When entering the Centre, there is a cluster of staff having a bleather, I'm assuming, was the welcome committee to inform me where to line up ect is (Even though the line is right behind them, and I know how to line up), I usually ignore such welcome committees. However, on this occasion, they actually did help. They did stop talking as soon as they saw me and other customer and split up to each customer to see if they could help in any way. The lady asked if we had booked, She viewed our tickets and wrote down my name, and she said I could walk straight in. No waiting.

The day went amazing.

My girl was able to explore what she wanted to explore. It was really busy and she needed a few breaks. We processed the hub/pod type room near the restaurant at the back of the centre to give her time.

My girl particularly loved the heart dissection! She did get impatient, and I thought it was because it was too slow, but it turned out my girl wanted up there to see better and get her hands on it 😅. The line to see and touch the heart was a bit disorganised the public as usual had a total disregarde of a wheelchair user (not science centres' fault) but she eventually got her turn and was reluctant to move she even took the scalpel! She loved it.

Really good demonstration, guys 🥰

The "restaurant " at the back of the centre is not what it used to be sadly It's only lunch boxes for the kids, soups and sandwiches, and cake. No lovely hot luches that were so popular, sadly. However as most will know the Science Centre welcomes picnics and bring your own food. There are lots of tables and even a picnic room and benches doted about. There is also a locker room if you don't want to carry bags all day and a cloak room (unmanned, so leave at your own risk) The toilets are clean and spacious and unisex.

Later in the day, my girl was getting restless, and a member of staff spotted this and came to us to see if she could help. She assisted us to the pod room and stayed with us. She did fetch pens and paper for my girl to draw. We chatted a while. The room is basic. However, this lovely lady explained there are more sensory toys, but they are only out on certain days (?) 🤔 Plus, kids like to open the door a lot to peek in, so it's not an undisturbed break. Two girls came in as my girl was having a meltdown to do handstands! Not what the room is for. There could maybe be more restrictions on how to police that space for those that need it. It's also locked a lot. However, my understanding is that if you need it, they will unlock it. Of course this means trailing an upset child to reception and walking all the way down again...something that should be re thought and a better solution should be in place for this room to be used as and when its needed either the equipment kept in the room (perhaps it could he staffed everyday). It's a large room, so there is lots of space for bean bags, some lights, and more seating. The lovely lady who stayed with us was telling me that a lot of the staff have neurodiversity issues and the managers are very very neurodiversity trained and how lovely it is to work there with such open minded managers and support. She went on to explain that the managers often raise awareness in staff regarding neurodiversity and they are welcome feedback regarding how to make something better. As a huge advocate for neurodiversity this is music to my ears. I did ask if she was telling me the truth or just spouting from a script as so many other companies do... but she gave me some wonderful personal experiences at the centre of her team. From a mum of a neurodiversity child, this was so...

Had lots of fun here with the kids on a wet day in Glasgow ,(every day?). We booked online before going, incl IMAX tickets we spent £105 for our (largish) family. Upon arrival we had to queue in the ticket line with everyone else that were buying tickets which I thought odd. We had a barcode, could we not just scan it and go in, I mean it's a science museum! IMAX was a bit of a let down, video was really boring, all about plastics and global warming like every other documentary nowadays. Why can't kids just enjoy a video without making it so sad that the world is being destroyed blah blah. Anyways we went to the halls, all 3 huge floors of them. Wow. This is definitely the best science museum I've been to. All state of the art , loads of flashy screens with stuff you don't get a chance to try anywhere else.We all loved it. Unreal amount of hands on experiments and activities we could do and all in clean and good working order. Everything was fantastic. The whole spectrum of science was covered. Crazy how each floor just gets better and better. 4th floor anyone? Everyone enjoyed a good 3 hours trying everything. I would say kids 7+ enjoyed it most, Def not for toddlers, but I assume that's pretty obvious.Was loads of toilets around ( like seriously loads, every few feet) and was a nice touch to have a place to eat your own food. We needed a drink but the vending machines only accepted coins! Like, seriously, a state of the art museum and they have vending machines with 80's technology. Anyways 2 last complaints for which was otherwise an incredible place and highly recommended to young and old alike. 1) place was hot like very hot and very stuffy, they need to sort some ventilation ( windows?) 2) the observation tower was out of order but no mention on the website when booking. Not end of the world as from 3rd floor you could see the whole of Glasgow anyways ( stand on a chair would give you same result) All in all a good day out and was worth the money as it's state of the art and spent 30 mins trying to get all the bodily organs back into a torso which isn't something I get to...

i have 3 kids 5, 3 & 1 and have often been alone in glasgow entertaining them . i think i know everywhere. today on a rainy day i decided instead of soft play, art gallery, kelvinhall, and the usual haunts we would do something different and go to the science centre. Was not phased by the £31 i paid to get in, as fun street is £41 for us. But this place today was utter chaos and for the first time i actually struggled with 3. There was crowds of people, i was unable to get past anyone with my buggy which i have to take for the one year old. i was stuck in the lift for 15 minutes while it just went up to the top and down to bottom without stopping at other floors. When i eventually got to the floor i wanted to go to, it was so busy my kids couldn’t get near anything. Older kids barging in, skipping queues and it was just a riot. The under 7 section was ridiculous. At 3pm i thought i should try and feed the kids in the cafe and go back up for a quiet hour and actually try and see something. It took me 30 minutes to navigate to the cafe, back down that awful lift. then when i got to the cafe it was closed and i was directed to another at the imax . It was packed, no seats to sit and the queue was massive, i fed the kids some crackers that i had and actually had to just phone my husband to come and get me. when you pay money to go somewhere there should be a limit on the number of entries. for the number of people there should be more than one lift. sort your lift put so it doesn’t just go up and down when people want to go to different floors. don’t close your cafe early on such a busy day and maybe have other facilities for food and drinks beside all the empty picnic tables. The day out i have had with kids and i did 2 years of covid with two walking the streets of glasgow with nowhere to go! and thanks a lot to the the smug member of staff that enjoyed telling me the arts and crafts thing was full when there was spare seats and you had plenty of eggs...