‘There’s no final answer’: public let in to help furnish Bristol’s Martian house

Five-year-old astronaut and his mum among first visitors to project that combines art and science

Five-year-old Rowan Bailey-Davies and his mum, Gillian Davies, had come well prepared. He had donned his bright astronaut suit for this very special occasion, while she had picked geraniums from their garden.

Their mission: to visit and help begin to furnish a Martian house" that has appeared, golden and gleaming, among the sailing boats, wharf train tracks and cranes on the harbourside in Bristol.