A team of specially trained ‘science buskers’ from the Crick joined children’s writers and illustrators at this year’s Pop Up Festival of Stories in London’s King’s Cross in June.
Visitors to the festival, which celebrates books, stories and the imagination, got the chance to take part in some hands-on science activities with the Crick’s buskers, as well as find out more about the new institute.
“It was a great day,” said the Crick’s Community Engagement Manager, Katie Matthews. “You wouldn’t normally associate Fantastic Mr Fox and vampires with science but that’s what we got at Pop Up and people really seemed to enjoy it.”
The Crick's science buskers will appear at the Somers Town Festival of Cultures on Saturday 14 July and will entertain the crowds queuing outside St Pancras Station during the Olympics.
