Glasgow Science Centre chief executive Stephen Breslin, pictured here alongside a model of a diseased smoker from the £2 million Bodyworks exhibition, has laid out his plans for the future of the five star visitor attraction as the first anniversary of his assuming the post approaches.

Sponsored by the health charity Wellcome Trust and pharmaceutical giant GSK, the hi-tech, family-oriented exploration of human biology is planned to run until 2019, a key part of Breslin's strategy to boost visitor numbers to the £6m turnover attraction, which are expected to total over 400,000 this year.

"Bodyworks is a step change to anything we have done before." He said. "There are individual pods for different areas of human physiology using the latest technology and story-telling techniques to explain that most complex of entities, the human body, and we can update it to keep it relevant as we develop new ideas,"

An electrical engineer with a PhD from Strathclyde University, Breslin's remitis to revamp the GSC's business plan to maximise revenues and manage costs. Opened in 2001, the titanium-coated venue's 2000 square metres of exhibition entrails major managerial and financial challenges: cleaning the windows alone costs £10,000..

As well as doing a management deal with Cineworld, which will invest £1m in new projection equipment in the venue's IMAX cinema, Breslin has developed the events and corporate programme to include TV chefs and celebrity scientists. He is working on reactivating the venue's notoriously non-functional Glasgow Tower, and with utility firms to develop a new exhibition on energy supply entitled Powering the Future.

The centre earns £1.18 in admissions annually, with £2.29 from corporate activities.