[2] In March 2009 the centre was the main venue for the UK's first Maker Faire,[3] run as part of the Newcastle ScienceFest.

Maker Faire UK returned to the Centre for Life in 2013, at which over 300 hackers, crafters, coders, DIYers and inventors presented their projects alongside installations and drop-in workshops,[4] and also in 2016.

It has a changing programme of events made up of temporary and permanent exhibitions, a Science Theatre, a planetarium.

[9] Life Science Centre has hosted major touring exhibitions such as Body Worlds Vital in 2014.

[13] Scientists based at The Centre for Life were the first people in Europe - and only the second in the world - to get a license for stem cell research on human embryos.