Curator Alexandra Rose introduces our newest permanent gallery Science City: The Linbury Gallery and explores how science shaped London, and London shaped science.
From iconic galleries like Exploring Space to award-winning newer additions to the museum like Mathematics: The Winton Gallery our galleries make the museum an inspiring place to explore. We also open temporary exhibitions throughout the year covering a range of topics from science and technology to history and photography.
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.
On this day, 200 years ago, esteemed Scottish engineer and polymath James Watt died.
This week we announced a rather special addition to the Clockmakers’ Museum.
The first non-stop transatlantic flight took place in June 1919. We explore what happened next…
As we launch our Summer of Space and celebrate 50 years since the Apollo Moon missions, Curator Doug Millard takes us back in time to when the Apollo 10 command module first landed at the Science Museum.
Sixty years on, Art Curator Katy Barrett reflects on the ‘Two cultures’ lecture and a new acquisition that challenges the ideas it presented.
To celebrate Power UP, our hands-on gaming event, we take a look back at the history of handheld gaming.
Tuberculosis has existed for thousands of years, and throughout its long history has been shrouded in myth and mystery.
Her Majesty The Queen visited the Science Museum to announce our new free summer exhibition, Top Secret: From Ciphers to Cyber Security, and open our new supporters centre.
Conservator Marisa Kalvins has been busy restoring damaged objects set to go on display in our upcoming Medicine Galleries, including this 18th century shaving bowl. She reveals more about the intricate process and explains why repairs are important to an object’s history.
250 years ago, on 5 January 1769, one of the UK’s most significant patents was granted. Curator Ben Russell takes up the story.