Top 10 interactive museums

Interactive museums are easily one of the best places where one can enjoy being stuck into. From living history to getting hands-on experience in conducting science experiments, from navigating a plane to making one's own pop record, interactive museums offers everything to get oneself involved with.

Top 10 interactive museums:

• London Science Museum: If the word "museum" reminds one of a didactic and dusty place, then they should think again before coming here. Live demonstrations of anything ranging from physical forces to fireworks, it is hands-on throughout. The "Launch Pad" is a great attraction for the kids as various scientific principles are shown here through engaging science experiments. And the cherry on the cake- an IMAX cinema.
• British Music Experience: As far as the Top interactive museums are concerned, this one here is the most sough-after. This place takes one in an all dancing and singing journey through the history of British music. It is first of its kind in the country and offers interactive sessions where one can explore the great music moments of British music throughout history, witnessing interviews of the biggest stars and flick through a vinyl box which completely virtual. One can also record themselves singing, mixing and playing the guitar, drums or keyboard.
• Manchester Art Gallery: Manchester's museum of decorative art and fine art has a gallery devoted in giving the visitors a hands-on experience of appreciating, thinking and making art. Clore Interactive Gallery provides one the chance to explore real art-works by using their own senses.
• Highland Folk Museum: This open-air museum provides an excellent platform to explore the Highland life through an amazing journey through history. One will also get a chance to to try their hands on period vehicles and traditional aircrafts.
• Thackray Museum: With interactive exhibits, this museum tells the medicine-story down the ages. One can try the "empathy belly" to experience the feeling of pregnancy, witnessing the surgical procedure done during the 19th century and also one can go back to the period of Victorian Leeds to treat patients.
• National Museum of Flight: A popular destination for foreign visitors and a great interactive museum in U.K, here one can explore the flight history through actual aircrafts and fascinating exhibits in an interactive session named "Fantastic Flight". With flight simulations and games, kids can gain a hands-on experience regarding everything related to flight.
• Techniquest: A great discovery centre where one can study ant-colonies, launch a rocket, moving tons of granite and sinking an oil rig to name a few. The planetarium here can also provide a great learning experience to the kids.
• Big Pit Museum: A museum dedicated to the country's most famous industries. Here can have a multimedia tour with a virtual miner of a modern day coal mine inside the Mining Galleries.
• W5 Interactive Discovery Centre: Attractions include a laser harp, a lie detector, a giant racetrack, building bridges, robot building and lots more. It also offers a large number of programs of shows, temporary exhibitions and special events.
• ST Fagans: National History of Museum: Here one can visit historic buildings, witnessing real craftsmen practicing their traditional skills and much more.