Clockmaker Anna-Rose Kirk reflects on designing The Horizon Clock, a contemporary clock which references time’s relationship with nature.
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.
Scientists have sent shock-waves through the scientific world with the announcement that they have detected gravitational waves.
Jim Bennett uncovers the story of three mechanical models based on Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings.
Dr Jennifer Rich explores the history of the humble audio guide at the Science Museum.
As Call the Midwife examines the issue of thalidomide, curator Selina Hurley explores its history.
Fabiana Portoni explores some of the dangers insect pests pose to the Museum’s collection
Roger Highfield explores what to think about machines that think.
Bees support plant life, dance to communicate, and are incredibly organised workers. They also have fascinating genes. Laura De Palma explains more.
How about this for a sound business proposition? You spend £25 million excavating a 1‑kilometre tunnel and a cavern the size of the Royal Albert Hall deep inside a solid-rock mountain. At the same time you create an artificial reservoir with the capacity of 4000 Olympic swimming pools way up high on a barren Scottish mountainside. Then you install four giant turbines inside the mountain so that the water from the reservoir can flow through and generate electricity for the national […]
During the preparations for our landmark exhibition, Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age, we reunited Britain’s first astronaut, Helen Sharman, with her spacesuit around a quarter of a century after she first wore it for her pioneering mission to the Mir space station. Helen’s journey began in 1989 when she, then a food technologist, answered an advertisement that she had heard on her car radio: “Astronaut wanted. No experience necessary.” With Timothy Mace, she was eventually selected from over 13,000 […]
Becky Honeycombe writes about one of her favourite Science Museum objects.
Will Stanley blogs on how ten London museums are collaborating on an exciting new Instagram project.