Here at the Science Museum we like to play games and we’re interested in how we can make the experience of visiting the Museum a bit more playful on a day to day basis.
Thanks to everyone who came along to the Stitched Science event this weekend. We had a ball and hope you did too. We’ve gathered together a few pictures to give those that couldn’t make it a flavour of the event.
What are disco-dancing music shoes and stomping robot ponies doing in the Science Museum?
We’re teaming up with Stitch Science for a weekend of science stitching. Come along to help make a giant stitched model of the solar system or help us out by sending some plastic bags to make plastic yarn.
Meet the Chronophage beast, who chomps down on each minute, devouring a whopping 86,400 seconds each day.
Would you like to co-create an exhibit in our new temporary exhibition together with other musicians and curators from the Science Museum? Then drop us a line before 30 May (noon) and let us know why you love electronic music.
Meet Jon, the man tasked with making Lates great.
He’s been working away on the programme for this month’s Space-themed Lates (Wednesday 27 April 6.45 – 10pm) but he’s taken a break to tell us what he’s got in store…
Ah Lates – the one night a month we stay open till ten and welcome crowds of the young and fun for a strangely successful blend of science and socialising. And silent disco of course…
Is there a burning question that you’d like to ask a curator? Maybe what’s your favourite object? What’s the tiniest object in your collection? How do you go to the loo in space? Well now’s your chance, because 1 September is ‘Ask a Curator Day’ – a unique worldwide Q&A session which lets you put questions to museums. A crack team of Science Museum curators and other staff members will be standing by – so start thinking now. All you have to […]
Gaetan Lee is organising tomorrow’s launch event for Cosmic Collections, our website competition. Find out a little more about what to expect.
Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer, answers a few questions about the Cosmic Collections website ‘mash-up’ competition.
Ali Boyle, Curator of Astronomy at the Science Museum, answers a few questions about our newest exhibition.