Bristol's We the Curious boss on reopening: "It's just absolutely joyous"

More than two years after a devastating fire forced it to close, Bristol science museum We the Curious is reopening its doors.

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00:00The big grand opening next week, two years after that, more than two years after that

00:06unfortunate fire, how does it feel to finally be at this moment?

00:09It feels absolutely fantastic. So as you say, just over two years that we've been closed,

00:14it's been like a building site and so now to have people back in the building, the exhibits

00:19working, all the sounds that you'd expect, it's just absolutely joyous.

00:23I bet. And tell me how it's sort of changed from before, what's different about We The

00:27Curious now?

00:28To be honest, quite a lot of things. So when you first come into the foyer, you'll see

00:32that it's all been kind of brought up to life and we've rearranged everything and we've

00:37got beautiful plants and a new cafe, the exhibits themselves, a lot of them are new. So we've

00:43got the ground floor that hasn't really been shared with people because we had COVID and

00:48so when we kind of came back, we were only sharing that for like 50% of people that we

00:53could and so now we're able to share it with everybody. So we're delighted. There's lots

00:57of surprises, so come and check us out.