I’ve encountered some pretty strange guided walks over the years. Hell, I’ve led a few strange guided walks over the years. But nothing competes with this new initiative from the Science Museum.

That’s right. You get to dress up as one of the world’s oldest, most resilient forms of life and scuttle among the exhibits pretending you’re Bruce Forsyth an insect. The idea comes from Superflex, a ‘group of artists and designers whose work aims both to highlight global issues and to suggest and generate alternative ideas and solutions’. They’ll pick out some museum highlights and offer a ‘humourous’ commentary. There’s no mention as to whether the costumes confer cockroach-like resilience to nuclear attack.

The cockroach tours take place every Saturday and Sunday until around the end of the year. Book places here, or enter the competition to win four free tickets.

Is this the most creative attempt ever to prove that science is fun?