Glasgow Science Festival 2026

Glasgow Science Festival at the Riverside Museum

Sunday 14 June
Test your microscope skills, get creative, try a Lego challenge and more with us at the Riverside Museum from 11am to 3pm! Full details below. 

Cartoon image of the Riverside Museum. In front of the building is an X-ray of a head and a rocket.

Riverside Museum

Cartoon image of a black hole surrounded by cartoon diagrams of the atom.
Cartoon image of a black hole surrounded by cartoon diagrams of the atom.

Hear, Touch and See the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:58:00 BST

Listen to black holes merging with researchers from the University of Glasgow's School of Physics and Astronomy

A cartoon blue rainbow and a cartoon red rainbow.
A cartoon blue rainbow and a cartoon red rainbow.

Physics in Play

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:56:00 BST

Discover light-based technology with Fraunhofer UK

Cartoon image of a black hole surrounded by cartoon diagrams of the atom.
Cartoon image of a black hole surrounded by cartoon diagrams of the atom.

Meeting the Quantum World

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:03:00 BST

Try making objects levitate with engineers from the University of Glasgow's James Watt School of Engineering

Cartoon image of two people buidling a piece of machinery
Cartoon image of two people buidling a piece of machinery

Seeing the Unseen

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:03:00 BST

Test your microscope skills with researchers from the University of Glasgow’s School of Physics & Astronomy, Imperial College London, University of Bristol, and National Physical Laboratory

Two cartoon female scientists and three petri dishes.
Two cartoon female scientists and three petri dishes.

GoSeq Viral Detection Using LEGO DNA sequencing

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:03:00 BST

Get creative with researchers from the University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

Cartoon image of a brain with different sections in different colours.
Cartoon image of a brain with different sections in different colours.

SpatiaLEGO

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:03:00 BST

Try the LEGO challenge from the Turner Kirk Centre for Spatial Reasoning at the University of Glasgow

A cartoon red robot.
A cartoon red robot.

Neural Network Quantisation in Action

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:03:00 BST

Find out how researchers from the University of Glasgow’s School of Computing Science make AI models more efficient