Star Walks: Weston Park's Space Age exhibition PODCAST
FAMILIES looking for an out-of-this-world experience can take a giant leap into a Sheffield attraction with a little bit of help from The Star.
We have teamed up with Weston Park Museum to bring you the latest in our series of Star Walks and this week the focus falls on the Space Age: Exploration, Design and Popular Culture exhibition.
There is everything from meteorites to spacesuits on show but you only have until August 31 to catch it before the displays move out of Sheffield.
And you can download our exclusive podcast revealing loads of fascinating facts about the exhibition.
You can even print of one of our maps to make sure you don't miss out on any of the top exhibits.
Click on the green icon above to preview the walk or to download the podcast, right-click here and choose Save Target As...
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Space Age is designed to delight the whole family and take visitors on a spectacular journey through the cosmos.
It explores how space has become part of our lives through popular culture, literature, film, design and merchandising, and is in Sheffield with help from London's V&A Museum of Childhood.
There are intriguing objects from the Museum of Childhood's own collection, as well as loans from around the world and even donations
from the personal collections of Weston Park staff.
The exhibition aims to explore how human fascination with space has developed, from the emergence of astronomy in around 2000BC to NASA's most ambitious future plans to put humans on Mars.
There are more than 300 exhibits on show including original Star Wars merchandise and prototypes, classic 50s and 60s Japanese tin robots, and classic TV show memorabilia.
Lunar wallpaper designed by Michael Clark and Pierre Cardin 'Cosmo Corps' clothing are also on show alongside a piece of a Mars meteorite, an original Cosmonaut suit belonging to Russia's Yuri Gidzenko, a model of SpaceShipOne designed specifically to take tourists to space and packets of actual NASA space food.
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