Culture Night 9 October 2026 at SCIENCE

Join us in a board game adventure and discover how climate change affects polar bears and life in the icy Arctic. Along the way, you'll meet some of nature's smallest heroes: bacteria, which may play an important role in protecting the Arctic's fragile ecosystems.

Explore the hidden world of lakes and streams. Meet freshwater creatures, discover microscopic life up close, and learn how nature keeps our waters healthy in a changing climate.

DNA is nature’s own instruction manual, found in every living thing, from tiny bacteria to plants, animals and people. In this hands-on activity, you can extract DNA from a kiwi fruit and see it with your own eyes. Join us as we transform an ordinary kiwi into a fascinating experiment.

Challenge your friends or fellow Culture Night visitors to a game of chess. Expert mathematicians with a passion for chess will be ready to share tips and strategies, or take on anyone brave enough to challenge them.

What would you like to know about mathematics? Ask a mathematician absolutely anything. Get answers to your own mathematical mysteries and discover how mathematics is hidden in everyday life, nature and the universe.

Associate Professor Søren Scott will give short five-minute talks explaining Power-to-X technology and how electricity from wind and solar power can be converted into fuels and other useful products. This technology could play a key role in the green transition by making it possible to store renewable energy.

The Physics Playroom celebrates the joy of simple experiments and shows how nature can both trick and amaze us using materials and demonstrations on a kitchen-table scale.

Meet the scientists searching for some of nature's smallest and most elusive particles. Take part in fun activities for all ages: drill through ice with warm water, explore CERN in virtual reality, play particle physics games and get a CERN tattoo.

How are clouds formed? Can trees and climate change affect how many clouds appear in the sky? Explore the air around us, create a cloud in a bottle, and test your nose with a smell challenge while discovering the chemistry behind different scents.

How do thousands of ants and termites work together without getting in each other's way? And what are animals really saying when they make different sounds? Meet a live leafcutter ant colony, test your skills in an animal quiz, and discover the surprising social lives and emotions of the animal kingdom.

Search for five hidden stations in the Wander Hall and see if you can crack the mathematical codes. Choose your level, solve the challenges, and return for a prize and a chat about mathematics.

Experiment with soap bubbles and discover why they form the shapes they do. Build your own kaleidoscope and explore the geometry of reflections and symmetry. Or find out what a bottle opener and a few strings can teach us about the mathematics behind quantum spin.

Try programming a micro:bit using lights, sounds and symbols. Through a series of creative activities, you can explore how technology is shaped by the people who use it.

Drones are becoming an increasingly important part of everyday life. Discover how drones can work with and against one another through fun simulations, and try flying one yourself. Gain a unique insight into how drones are controlled and programmed.

Put on a VR headset and visit the EastGRIP research station on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Discover how scientists live and work in this remote environment, and learn how ice cores help us understand Earth’s climate and history.

Øresund Aquarium is bringing the sea to the city and inviting the whole family to explore the world beneath the waves. Get up close to live marine animals found just off Copenhagen’s coast and discover the unique wildlife that makes Øresund such a special place.

Take a closer look at the fascinating world inside cells. What colours are hidden in plant tissues? What do potatoes and the Maltese Cross have in common? How quickly do cells move about? And is your hair really thick or thin when viewed under a microscope?

Pick up a challenge sheet at our MATH stand and set off on a mystery hunt around the library. Mathematicians will be on hand to help if you get stuck, and everyone wins a prize, even if it is a consolation prize.

At the Chemistry Show stand, the whole family can enjoy a range of exciting and delicious experiments. Try marshmallows frozen in liquid nitrogen, taste carbonated grapes, and watch colours change in fun pH experiments. Discover how chemistry can be surprising, educational and great fun.

Create your very own badge. Let your imagination run wild and design something unique, or choose from one of our ready-made templates. Suitable for both children and adults.

Unleash your creativity where computer science meets art and design. Explore ideas and inspiration for hands-on projects that you can create yourself throughout the evening.

What happens to space when two black holes merge? Come and bend spacetime yourself on our stretchy sheet, and send ripples across the Universe. Try our little laser detector and find out how the giant LIGO interferometers catch these ripples when they reach Earth.