A new interactive installation at Perth Museum & Art Gallery this Spring will have visitors young and old floating above the Earth, walking on the Moon and playing in the stars.

Blast Off! opens from 1pm on Tuesday, March 24 and invites young families to enjoy learning together about all the wonders of our solar system as they step out of the museum and into ‘Space’.

Among the gallery’s highlights is a specially-commissioned cosmic playscape, surrounded by giant murals of planets, where children and adults are invited to build, climb, dress up, read, and space-walk together through the galaxy.

Created to delight and inspire, Perthshire design studio Fun Makes Good will bring a sense of intergalactic, interactive play to Perth Museum & Art Gallery.

Gillian Findlay, Interim Head of Museums and Collections said: ‘Space and space travel are such exciting topics for children! Who didn’t want to be an astronaut when they were little? At Culture Perth and Kinross, we believe it’s important that the very youngest members of our community feel at home in their museum and we want their grown-ups to feel comfortable and equipped to play here freely with them too. The Museums team has loved every second working with Fun Makes Good to create a safe, sensory experience for toddlers and young children to enjoy, and we’re confident Easter 2020 will be out of this world as a result.’

Eleanor Young, Fun Makes Good said: ‘As a big kid myself, who loves play, it’s been a fantastic project to be involved in. I’ve loved transforming the gallery space and I hope everyone who comes to visit, enjoys the playscape as much as I’ve enjoyed designing it!’.

Blast Off! runs from 24 March until 31 May 2020 at Perth Museum & Art Gallery.
Free admission.