Corn flour slime, a cloud in a bucket and exploding hydrogen balloons – find out what our outreach team got up to at the Lollibop festival.
Meet the staff members that make the Museum so unique and get the insider scoop on upcoming exhibitions, research projects and new objects.
Our 1980s operating theatre came back to life this morning, as we brought back together a surgical team from London’s Westminster Hospital to carry out three operations in the way they would have been performed in 1983. The idea is to capture how operations were performed in the past when surgery was very different from how it is today.
Meet our new Inventor in Residence – Mark Champkins. Find out what inspired him to become an inventor, the greatest invention ever and what objects in the Museum influence him the most.
To stop the big kiddies frightening the little ones we have different Key Stage days during term-time inside our Launchpad gallery. Despite the age difference, some things never change…
Chemistry was the key to this month’s Lates – the chemistry of bath products, warfare, alcohol and even luuurve…
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.
Our curator Doug Millard tells us about the time he journeyed from SW7 London to Houston Texas to collect a piece of the Moon.
An Imperial Stormtrooper stands outside the Science Museum stall – science fiction or science fact? The Science Museum at West End Live!
Today would have been the 15th birthday of the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep. Named after the singer Dolly Parton, Dolly caused quite a storm when the news first broke of her birth. In September 1997, a competition called ‘Do a Design for Dolly’ was launched by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and supported by Portman Building Society. In March the following year, a 12-year-old girl, Holly Wharton, was announced as the winner. Her design was made from Dolly’s wool […]
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.
It’s only four days until the Stitch London team will be joining us at the museum to stitch the world’s largest handmade solar system. From neurons to giant Jupiter, your skills are needed to help create this piece of art, so come down and join in!
We need your help to come up with a name for our new live gaming festival. We’re looking for a name that sums up the adventurous nature of this real life gaming experience.