Science is part of everything and we dream of a society where science is fully embraced as part of everyday culture and not exclusive to a science museum, classroom or interactive science centre. In pursuit of this we have begun a series of seminars to network between museum professionals, science communicators and science teachers to share ideas, innovate and develop methodologies to reveal the science links with all object-based cultural collections. The Talk Science Seminars challenge cultural institutions of all types and sizes to ask how we can make all museums and heritage sites destinations for engaging and inspiring teenagers with science. This session will explore some of the creative links, innovative techniques and cross-curricular thematic approaches museums are using to re-examine the potential of our wider cultural heritage as a hook to engage and inspire young people. For example, engaging and inspiring students in the science and history of the 16th century Mary Rose ship by combining investigation of Tudor invention with leading scientific techniques used in 21st century marine archaeology. Thematic approaches combining science with art, history and storytelling can help students engage with the science revealed by objects in any museum and build emotional, social and ethical awareness which is harder to achieve in the classroom.