At this permanent exhibition, 'The Story of Jodrell Bank', visitors will learn about pioneering individuals who developed a new field of science, discover how they built the world’s first radio astronomy site and explore the cosmos by ‘driving’ the radio telescope that detected quasars, pulsars, black holes, and tracked the rocket path of Sputnik 1.

Part of a £21.5m project to open up the inspirational heritage of Jodrell Bank, the world class exhibition presents the inspiring, human story of the pioneering observatory, home to the Lovell Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope of its time and an icon of science and engineering.

Immersing visitors within a panoramic array of the Lovell Telescope’s original steel panels, the exhibition uses object displays, interactives, projection mapped media and AVs to create a self-directed journey where each person's experience will be unique to them. Casson Mann saw the opportunity to save and repurpose parts of the original 1957 telescope dish as the fabric of the exhibition: these authentic, heavily patinated panels have become the projection surface which maps both the earthly histories of pioneering Jodrell scientists and the cosmic sphere which they revealed to humankind.

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