We’re welcoming in the New Year with a look at just a few of the exciting things happening here at the Museum in 2013.
Zombie hordes will invade the Museum in late January as we explore the science of consciousness and debate the ethical implications of a Zombie attack. Running during Lates and over a weekend, ZombieLab will feature live games, performances, and talks from leading consciousness researchers across the UK.
British philosopher and mathematician Charles Babbage, famous for his designs of automatic calculating machines, will be the focus of a new display this spring, as the Museum showcases the newly digitised Babbage archive and its collection of technical plans, drawings, scribbling books and letters.
In the summer, we’ll open Media Space, a brand new 1800 m² venue with two exhibition spaces and a café bar. A collaboration with the National Media Museum, Media Space will showcase some of the 3.2 million items from the National Photography Collection in a series of temporary exhibitions.
Photographers, artists and the creative industries will use our collections to explore visual media, technology, and science through the wider programme of exhibitions and events at Media Space.
Finally, we’ll end the year with an exploration of one of the great scientific and engineering endeavors of our time: the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.
Opening in autumn 2013, this new exhibition will give visitors a close-up look at remarkable examples of CERN engineering, including the vast dipole magnets. We’re working with CERN scientists and theatrical experts to produce a truly immersive experience which transports visitors into the heart of the LHC.
Also on display in the exhibition will be historic objects from our collections, including the apparatus used by JJ Thomson in his electron discovery experiments and the accelerator Cockcroft and Walton used to split the atom.
So whether its Zombies, Media Space or the Large Hadron Collider that interests you, there’s something for everyone in the Museum this year.