Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum

Unofficial Museum Guide

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  1. 1 Key Facts
  2. 2 What’s Here
  3. 3 Directions
  4. 4 Visiting
  5. 4.1 Opening Hours:
  6. 4.2 Admission:
  7. 4.3 Amenities:
  8. 5 List of Aircraft Exhibits
  9. 6 More Information

Spitfire IX ML427
(photo, Thinktank)


Key Facts

Location: Curzon Street, Birmingham
SatNav: B4 7XG
Country: United Kingdom
Date Opened: ?
Aircraft Exhibits: 2


What’s Here

Thinktank is Birmingham’s unique and award-winning museum of science and discovery housed at Millennium Point.
This exciting science centre offers ten galleries of historical artefacts, modern interactives and futuristic facts. It’s an incredibly modern museum where visitors can explore everything from aircraft and steam engines to intestines and taste buds and even emotional robots.
Among the exhibits are a Supermarine Spitfire, built at the local Vickers Armstrong plant in Castle Bromwich in 1944, and a Hawker Hurricane built in 1943 by Hawker aircraft of Kingston & Langley, representing the 300 built by Austin of Longbridge, Birmingham during World War 2.

Also to be found here are countless examples of Birmingham’s engineering heritage, including motorcycles, cars and a working steam engine.


Directions

Within the Millennium Point centre, Curzon Street, Birmingham, West Midlands. See this location on Microsoft Live Search Maps


Visiting


Opening Hours:

Open every day (except 24-26 December), 10am – 5pm (last entry 4.00 pm).


Admission:

See official website for details.


Amenities:

Cafes, gift shop, secure car and coach park (charges apply). Disabled car parking bays. Toilets for wheelchair users. Baby changing facilities. Millennium Point is fully accessible for people with mobility difficulties. IMAX Theatre.


Hurricane IV ‘P3395′
(photo, Thinktank)		 Spitfire
(photo, Thinktank)


List of Aircraft Exhibits

Displayed I.D. Aircraft Type Real Identity Condition Status
‘P3395′ Hawker Hurricane IV KX829 Complete Displayed
ML427 Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX ML427 Complete Displayed


More Information

Thinktank – Birmingham Science Museum, Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 7XG. Tel: 0121 202 2222, website: Thinktank, e-mail findout@thinktank.ac.


Spitfire IX close-up
(photo, Thinktank)		  

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categories Main, Museums | admin | Posted datetime 27 March 2010 10:57 am | Last Updated 1 August 2010 9:14 am |

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