Our world-class collection forms an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical achievements from across the globe. Come behind the scenes as we explore new object acquisitions and meet the conservation team.
What’s the connection between the Great British Bake Off and nineteenth-century chef Alexis Soyer? Well, I guess the blog title gives it away: food consumed – not literally – but as public spectacle. Outside of the more intimate settings of our home kitchens, the return of Bake Off to our TV screens shows that there is a real appetite for what is frankly (light entertainment) food porn watched by millions. In Bake Off a series of amateur bakers are challenged by […]
Later this year, we launch Mathematics: The Winton Gallery. Jessica Bradford explores how we make this sometimes divisive subject engaging for our visitors.
Eric – a 2m tall working replica of one of the world’s first robots – is now on display in the Science Museum.
It may look like a humble glass jar, but this embryo incubator was used in the creation of the world’s first ‘test-tube babies’.
Hanging at the centre of Mathematics: The Winton Gallery is the Handley Page ‘Gugnunc’, an experimental aeroplane built in 1929. Curator David Rooney explores the story of this eloquent, striking and powerful embodiment of the mathematics of risk.
Collections Assistant Dominique Russell describes the process of cleaning and preparing the incredible Elliott 401 computer to go on display.
Two hundred and fifty years after his birth, Stephanie Millard celebrates the life of John Dalton who laid the foundations of modern atomic theory.
Roger Highfield explores the impact of eclipses on science.
Mysterious red circles have appeared on the skin of Olympic athletes at Rio 2016. Assistant Curator of Medicine Jack Mitchell explains more.
Of the many emotive objects in our Wounded exhibition none have the power to move more than this series of pastel sketches of young Allied soldiers.
Discover the story of the Andropatch in our Wonderful Things blog series.
Vanessa Applebaum reveals how we conserve and care for objects before they go on display in the Museum.