BUILD LIKE A ROMAN
BUDDING young engineers will have the chance to build their own catapult, battering ram or cart based on the engineering feats of Ancient Rome at the Museum of Tropical Queensland during the school holidays.
They will also get the chance to go on an adventurous scientific trail though the museum’s current exhibition Ancient Rome: the Empire that Shaped the World.
The museum’s exhibitions and public programs officer Claire Speedie said the scientific trail was a chance to find things that are used today that were used in ancient Roman times 200 years ago. “That will be a trail they can do by themselves,” Ms Speedie said.
Young visitors can also take advantage of a Creative Maker Space challenges based on the innovations of the Roman Empire.
“For this activity we are going to have design challenges inspired by the machinery and the innovations of the engineering in the Ancient Rome exhibition,” Ms Speedie said. “So they might be building a bridge to close a gap or they could also be building carts, catapults or ballistas.”
Ms Speedie said in the first week of the holidays there would also be more advanced Early Engineers activity that would need to be booked online and would ran from Monday to Friday at 10am to 11am and 12 noon to 1pm. “This is a workshop where children are once again inspired by the machinery in the exhibition and these will be more complicated challenges.”
Challenges run weekdays except Monday, October 4.