Get hands-on with these exciting activities exploring the atomically small world of crystallography!

Come and meet Dr. Vicki Greenacre and other Chemistry researchers, and have a go at...
* Painting your name with salt crystals to see how crystals form!
* Growing a crystal garden in a vial - you can watch it grow in real time and be in with a chance to win your very own crystal growing kit!
* Holding gemstones and minerals to see how different crystal structures look and feel, and how they grow in the natural world.
* Making your own crystal unit cells (the really small shapes that make up crystal structures) and seeing how they fit together.

You can also discover how scientists use X-rays to 'see' molecules and atoms, understand how they make up the world around us, and learn why it's so important to understand the world of atoms - they may be small, but they make a big difference!