This exhibition is about you. It has sections that tell you about the growth and development of your body and mind, and others where you are invited to think about the way you do things.
Our bodies are made up of millions of tiny units called cells, but each of us began life as just a single cell - a fertilized ovum. A special slide programme traces the growth of a human embryo in the mother's womb - from this one cell to a fully-formed baby.
If you have ever wondered how you move, you will have the opportunity to study the bones in your skeleton, as well as the muscles that make bones move. You will also discover that nerves make muscles pull.
Most of the nerve cells in your body are concentrated in your brain and spinal cord. Your brain controls almost all your actions and many of the things you do are in response to information gathered by your sense organs and nervous system. As well as gathering information from outside the body, your brain also receives messages from within it. It ensures that wherever you are and whatever you are doing, conditions inside your body - such as temperature, oxygen and water content - stay more or less constant.
Body processes are not only controlled by nerves. Hormones - chemical messengers carried in your blood - are also important. You can find out where these substances are produced in your body and something about the processes that they control; including growth, digestion and puberty.
Throughout our lives we learn about the world and store the experiences we have as memories. Exhibits show you that learning takes place all the time and changes the way we do things. From the moment we are born we begin to explore. By constant interaction with our surroundings we discover more about the things around us.
As we grow older we develop new mental abilities that allow us to solve problems we have never encountered, using reason and logic. By doing this, our understanding of the world continues to grow.
