Operation Ouch! Food, Poo and You is 'wonderfully weird and gloriously gross'

Operation Ouch! Food, Poo and You is the latest children’s exhibition running at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry, and kids are going crazy for it this summer holiday.

The exhibition is based on the BBC TV series and it promises to be wonderfully weird, gloriously gross and epically entertaining.

It’s the first time the programme has been brought to life as an exhibition, and as I visited on a rainy Monday morning, it seemed like children of all ages were fully embracing all elements of this interactive exhibition. It’s the perfect way for children to learn about human bodily functions and understand how they work, with a heavy emphasis on fun that keeps them engaged.

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The mission starts when a TV bursts into life with the familiar faces of Dr Chris, Dr Xand and Dr Ronx, and they explain the mission ahead. And then we start our journey through the exhibition. With dedicated areas for each part of the body, starting with the tongue and mouth, through the intestines, and ending up at the bottom, it’s interesting, but with a level of ‘yuck!’ that appeals to inquisitive children. I mean you can press buttons that make fart and burp noises - I don’t know a child that wouldn’t enjoy that.

We then moved on to help mechanically move a poo through a large intestine model. I visited with my six-year-old niece Darcie. Darcie and her eight-year-old friend loved the exhibition, and got heavily involved with the interactive sections dotted around the different areas. Bopping the bad bacteria became fiercely competitive!

The girls were bouncing from area to area, and although it was peak Summer holidays time and the weather outside was terrible- meaning a