Scitech
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Exterior of Scitech Discovery Centre
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 Location within Western Australia
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| Established | 13 August 1988 |
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| Location | 20 Sutherland Street Perth 6005 Australia |
| Coordinates | 31°56′40″S 115°50′47″E / 31.944344°S 115.846523°E |
| Type | Science museum |
| Visitors | 350,000 per year |
| Public transit access | City West |
| Website | www |
Scitech is a world renowned and multi award winning not-for-profit organisation that operates the Scitech Discovery Centre, a permanent, interactive science museum which includes a planetarium, and is located in West Perth, Western Australia. It first opened on 13 August 1988.
The organisation's published mission is, "To increase awareness, interest, capability and participation by all Western Australians in science, technology, engineering and mathematics." Scitech generally aims its programs at children aged up to 12, but it does provide activities for children and adults of all ages. Four times a year it also runs "Scitech After Dark" evenings to allow visitors older than to enjoy its attractions in an adult-oriented atmosphere.
The Scitech Discovery Centre features a number of regularly changing, interactive exhibitions designed to inform and educate visitors on subjects concerning science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It also offers live science, puppet and planetarium shows presented by enthusiastic science communications staff.
Large feature exhibitions are rotated every six months, with STEM exhibits pertaining to a particular theme, storyline or concept, most of which are built in-house by Scitech's design, graphics, and workshop departments. Scitech was the first Australian science centre to build large-scale interactive exhibitions. In addition, the exhibitions Scitech creates have toured nationally to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Darwin. Internationally, exhibitions have toured to Singapore, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Finland, France, England, Portugal, Estonia, Norway, Kuwait, and North American venues.
Approximately 3 million people have visited Scitech since its opening in 1988. 300,000 general public visitors and 42,000 primary and secondary school children visit the Scitech Discovery Centre annually at its West Perth base, with another 200,000 people experiencing Scitech via its travelling roadshow known as Statewide.
Scitech Discoverland
CSIRO Lab
Science Theatre
Rio Tinto Innovation Central
Inside Planetarium RHS
Puppet Theatre
Scitech Tastebud
The floor staff that most visitors will interact with at Scitech in West Perth fall into two categories.
There is also an extensive "behind-the-scenes" operations and support team. This team comprises creative design, electronics, mechanical workshop, operations and maintenance, logistics and purchasing, IT services, graphic and multimedia design, communications and marketing and travelling exhibition support.
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