Developed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has previously travelled to 14 venues across the UK including the Houses of Parliament and the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
Having seen a combined audience of 600,000 the week-long exhibition will see its penultimate event held at Queen’s University in Belfast until 10 May.
For the duration of its stay, members of the public will be able to walk inside a full-size replica of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which recreates the conditions immediately after the Big Bang.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen’s, has been involved in getting the exhibition to Queen’s.
He said: "This is the first time a major exhibition on the work on the LHC has come to Northern Ireland.
"It is a unique opportunity for members of the public, young and old, to get an insight into what takes place in the Large Hadron Collider and to meet those physicists and scientists who are having a huge impact around the world."
In addition to the exhibition, lectures will be held by physicist Peter Higgs - the man behind the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle – and by Queen’s graduate Steve Myers, who is director for accelerators and technology at CERN - the organisation that built and operates the LHC in Switzerland.
Myers said: "As a Queen’s graduate I’m delighted to return to the university for such a special event. For many people it will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the real life application of physics and science in such a setting."
After Belfast, the STFC has one more date planned at the Jodrell Bank festival in Manchester on 6 and 7 July.
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