Curator Alexandra Rose introduces our newest permanent gallery Science City: The Linbury Gallery and explores how science shaped London, and London shaped science.
On Colour Blind Awareness Day Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, University of Bristol lecturer and Science Museum Research Fellow explores the literary and cultural history of colour vision deficiency.
Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports on a recent discussion of the toxic fiction that is ‘race science’.
Science Director Roger Highfield recaps the wonders of the International Year of the Periodic Table.
Inspired by the designs of the Festival Pattern Group, illustrator Jen Haugan created a series of new illustrations.
On this day, 200 years ago, esteemed Scottish engineer and polymath James Watt died.
Bookings open today for a free exhibition to showcase the Royal Photographic Society’s first Science Photographer of the Year competition, says judge and Science Director Roger Highfield.
Our Director Sir Ian Blatchford shares his thoughts on sustainability and the Science Museum Group.
This week we announced a rather special addition to the Clockmakers’ Museum.
Follow this interactive trail and go on a journey of exploration and discovery around the Science Museum this summer.
As we celebrate James Lovelock’s 100th birthday, Roger Highfield reflects on his scientific achievements.
Go behind the scenes with the team unraveling mysteries in the collection.