Tue 6 March 2012

With just three weeks left, this is the last chance for visitors to explore the science behind fascinating faces in Otago Museum’s Your Face Here – The Science Edition exhibition. Visitors to Discovery World this summer have again been delighted, frightened and amazed as they re-discover the highlights of the Museum’s popular special exhibition.

Brought back due to popular acclaim, Your Face Here – The Science Edition takes the highlights from the previous summer show. Focusing on our most recognisable body part, visitors are able to predict how they might look as they age, explore the effects of sun damage and smoking, merge their looks with friends, family and beautiful strangers and see themselves with perfectly symmetrical features.

The fascination with faces continues with a special Discovery World Science Show. In Your Face explores the science of faces with some eye opening experiments, from the physics of perspiration to the chemistry of our tears, every Saturday and Sunday at 1pm.

Free with your admission to Discovery World Tropical Forest, Your Face Here – The Science Edition has added to a bumper summer school holiday programme. “The people of Otago have been captivated by the exhibition,” says Clare Wilson, Director – Experience and Development, “both children and adults alike have had a lot of fun experimenting with their own face. The ability to see a prediction of your face of the future has been both energising and frightening!”

Your Face Here – The Science Edition closes on Tuesday 27 March and is free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission. After closing at Discovery World the Your Face Here exhibition will travel to Te Manawa for the enjoyment of the communities of the Manawatu.

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