Outreach & engagement
MoSS wants to make crystallisation, molecular materials and the ideas behind solid solutions understandable, useful and exciting beyond the research community.
Outreach in action
From museum visitors and festival audiences to primary-school pupils, each activity connects the hidden structures of crystals with the materials people meet every day.
MoSS and CrystoGen are developing hands-on sessions for around 360 Year 4 pupils in Manchester, Leeds and Durham. Pupils will examine crystal shapes, build lattice models and grow salt crystals at home.
Six schools in Manchester, three in Leeds and three in Durham.
Aurora Cruz-Cabeza showed how crystals influence everything from ice and chocolate to medicines and microchips, and explained why crystal structure is central to the materials around us.
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For British Science Week, MoSS researchers invited museum visitors to explore how crystals form, how their structures differ and why crystalline materials matter—right beneath the museum’s T. rex.
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We welcome conversations with schools, teachers, science communicators and organisations interested in future MoSS activities.
