Isabelle Alaya explains how to become a chocolate chemist.
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.
This Easter holiday we invite you to embrace your inner scientist and explore our thrilling interactive gallery – ‘Wonderlab: The Equinor Gallery’.
Ben Russell introduces the ‘Draughtsman-Writer’
Celebrating the 80th birthday of Valentina Tereshkova
New acquisition: 3D printed models used in kidney transplant.
Discover the story of how Valentina Tereshkova became First Woman in Space
Churchill and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life.
Unveiling the Science Museum’s latest blockbuster exhibition, Robots.
We asked Lou Sanders some quick-fire questions about robots ahead of our Robot Comedy Quiz Show on Feb 10
A look back at the Museum’s old Agriculture gallery
Roger Highfield describes the launch of the Museum’s pioneering Mathematics gallery, designed by Dame Zaha Hadid.
When are you going to die? This isn’t a question any of us know the answer to. But it’s one that has preoccupied politicians, philosophers, scientists and engineers for centuries. A week ago the Science Museum hosted a special TEDxLondon event on ‘the end of ageing’. Guest-curated by high-altitude physician and entrepreneur Dr Jack Kriendler, speakers tackled issues of life, death and ageing from a myriad of perspectives: biology, moral philosophy, science fiction, art and digital technology. The discussion challenged […]