CARBON is Science Gallery Bengaluru immersive and multidisciplinary touring exhibition which explores our critical and contentious relationship with the element carbon.

We are all made of carbon. And so is everything around us. It forms the backbone of our DNA, is key to life-maintaining processes like photosynthesis and respiration and drives our industries. Our ability to control and manipulate carbon—whether as charcoal, oil, carbon nanotubes or buckyballs—has revolutionised every aspect of the way we live. From medicine and machinery to architecture and art—the sooty fingerprints of carbon are visible on almost everything humanity has built.

How do we understand carbon beyond the catch phrases and contradictions? Why does it behave the way it does—the elemental basis for life but equally a gas capable of suffocating life? A stone at the centre of an industry selling eternal love but built on the exploitation of thousands. As oil it has been the cause of wars and suffering. But even death and decomposition still leads to formation of the most sought after forms of fossil carbon.

Come explore a part of CARBON, at Glasgow Science Festival 2025!

Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre (ARC), 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW
Date: Thurs 5th to Sun 15th June
Time: 8.30am - 7.30pm (Mon to Fri), 10.00am - 4.00pm (Sat & Sun)
Booking: No booking required
Cost: Free 

First published: 29 April 2025

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Cartoon image of the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre. In front of the building is a female scientist in a lab coat holding DNA molecules, and a man controlling a robot.

Science Gallery Bengaluru

Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow