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BEAKER STREET FESTIVAL 2020 IS HERE!

This year's exciting new project, Sci Art Walks, is now live and available for your listening pleasure from anywhere in the world. Check it out at sciartwalks.com.au. There you'll find our Sci Art Walks episodes, each featuring a fascinating scientific talk paired with originally composed music, by a brilliant lineup of Tasmanian scientists and artists. You can stream or download the episodes directly from the website, free of charge, and learn more about the participants and the suggested walking locations. Sci Art Walks is also available on your favourite podcast platform.

AND... the Beaker Street Science Photography Prize exhibition is open to the public at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 22 August - 20 September. Check out the 12 incredible finalist images and vote for your favourite to become the People's Choice Winner. Entry is free but booking is required via tmag.tas.gov.au.

Beaker Street is a scientist-run social enterprise based in Tasmania.

Feel like playing with a microscope at a pub? Chatting about evolution with a world-leading scientist? Meeting some new and interesting people?

You've come to the right place.

We host events, workshops, talks, discussions, and create interactive spaces where everyone is invited to participate in scientific discovery.

Every August for the Beaker Street festival, we turn the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, and some of Hobart's most iconic spaces and places, into a scientific wonderland for adults. Want to learn more? Keep on scrollin'

The annual Beaker Street festival is a celebration of science and art in Tasmania.

Flick through the slide show to find out what people are saying...

"More engaging and interactive than anything I've done anywhere else in Australia. Especially leading a dancing, New Orleans-style jazz band into the museum, followed by a few hundred people."

— Dr Karl

Wondering what it's all about? Check out some photos and videos from past years, or peruse our packed 2019 program.

Beaker Street Festival 2020 is heading your way in August, as part of National Science Week. This year's festival looks a bit different - ahem, Coronavirus - but novel conditions can generate innovation and inspiration. We've got some great new content in store for you this year. Stay tuned.

Beaker Street also runs workshops, pub talks, and other science events throughout the year. Join our mailing list below or like our Facebook page to stay up-to-date.