That is the view of Spanish-born Otago Museum Discovery World co-ordinator Amadeo Enriquez-Ballestero who yesterday offered a lively science ``snack'' session for pupils, on astronomy and rocket-making, at Dunedin's Beverly-Begg Observatory.
``Arts and sciences should be together,'' he said yesterday.
Arts and sciences were once considered a single area of study, creativity played a big role in both, and it had been a bad mistake to consider the disciplines as ``fully separate'', he said.
The new Otago hands-on programme was enabling science pupils to learn more about the arts, and arts pupils to learn more about sciences, including through taking afternoon ``snack'' sessions in a wide range of fun subjects, including astronomy, he said.
Ten delighted school pupils yesterday watched and took turns to help at the observatory, including operating the observatory's main computer-guided telescope and moving the observatory dome.
After earlier operating successfully for 26 years as ``Hands-on Science'', the educational programme has been renamed ``Hands-on at Otago'', and over the past two years the intake has been expanded more than 80%.
That has resulted in this year's 420 participating pupils including many humanities and 20 business studies pupils, as well as the traditional science cohort.
Mr Enriquez-Ballestero last year won the Otago Museum Science Communicator/Teacher Award, which was part of the inaugural Otago Daily Times Community Science Awards, offered in association with the New Zealand International Science Festival.
