Our 1980s operating theatre came back to life this morning, as we brought back together a surgical team from London’s Westminster Hospital to carry out three operations in the way they would have been performed in 1983. The idea is to capture how operations were performed in the past when surgery was very different from how it is today.
Meet our new Inventor in Residence – Mark Champkins. Find out what inspired him to become an inventor, the greatest invention ever and what objects in the Museum influence him the most.
To stop the big kiddies frightening the little ones we have different Key Stage days during term-time inside our Launchpad gallery. Despite the age difference, some things never change…
Chemistry was the key to this month’s Lates – the chemistry of bath products, warfare, alcohol and even luuurve…
The Oramics Machine is being installed in the gallery today in preparation for tomorrow’s big opening…
Last week we welcomed a group of space pioneers into the Museum to try out our new space trail. Find out what they thought
Here at the Science Museum we like to play games and we’re interested in how we can make the experience of visiting the Museum a bit more playful on a day to day basis.
Artworks, made from meteorites that landed on Earth 6,000 years ago, are on show in the Science Museum until 30 October 2011
Our curator Doug Millard tells us about the time he journeyed from SW7 London to Houston Texas to collect a piece of the Moon.
This summer, from 23 July – 31 August, we’re inviting families to spend their summer holiday in space.
An Imperial Stormtrooper stands outside the Science Museum stall – science fiction or science fact? The Science Museum at West End Live!
Later this year the Science Museum’s opening a temporary exhibition that will explore the relevance of our collections to family historians. We’re looking for people who could help us to develop it. One part of the exhibition will focus on a number of different trades and professions. A theme that we are already looking at in an ongoing series of articles for Family Tree magazine. Do you have an ancestor story to tell that relates to one of the areas to be […]