The Catalyst Science Discovery Centre and Museum is a science and technology museum in Widnes, Halton, North-West England. The centre has interactive exhibits, reconstructed historical scenes, an observatory, a live-science theatre and family workshops. It is next to Spike Island, a public park, located between the River Mersey and the Sankey Canal that has woodlands, wetlands, footpaths and industrial archaeological history.
The centre is housed in Tower Building, constructed around 1860 by John Hutchinson as the administrative centre for his chemical business. The centre holds a collection of archives relating to the chemical industry, these include documents, photographs and the entire research archive of the ICI General Chemical Division.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalyst_Science_Discovery_Centre
Official website http://www.catalyst.org.uk/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CatalystScienceDiscoveryCentre
Twitter https://twitter.com/CatalystSDC
Email meryl@catalyst.org.uk
Phone +44 151 420 1121
Address Mersey Road, WA8 0DF Widnes, UK
Coordinates 53°21'6.624" N -2°44'1.104" E
