• Find out about the breakthrough made using a camera obscura which proved that we see objects when reflected light enters our eyes (rather than our eyes sending out invisible rays)

• Play a computer game and see if you can spot the modern-day inventions influenced by centuries-old discoveries from Muslim civilisation

• Meet 11th-century physicist Ibn al-Haytham in our film, and hear about how he set the scene for the development of experimental science and the work of Roger Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Kepler

• See a model of Al-Jazari’s Scribe Clock and find out about its clever water-powered mechanism

• Investigate a reconstruction of a typical ancient courtyard house which used ingenious systems to provide inhabitants with natural ventilation and cooling

• Discover the comical trick devices made by the 9th-century Banu Musa brothers, who also sponsored the translation of scientific works from ancient languages

• Hear how chess came to the Persian court via India, and spread across Muslim civilisation

• Investigate how today’s soap, shampoo and toothbrushes all have links with the distant past

• Find out how our clothes, carpets and even coffee-drinking has been influenced by Muslim cilivisation.