Science Museum Blog

For the last two years my job has been to work out how to transport rocket engines, gigantic spacecraft and 150 other incredible artefacts from Moscow to London and into the Cosmonauts exhibition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27W8E9Yney8 We are borrowing artefacts of all shapes and sizes – from small pencil drawings of early twentieth century rocket designs to Vostok 6, the full-size spacecraft that transported the first women into space in 1963 – from museums, private individuals and even the Russian Space Agency. […]

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 […]

Roger Highfield explores how scientists are using computer modelling to better understand the evolution of cancerous tumours.

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.

Jack Mitchell, the Science Museum’s Assistant Curator of Medicine, takes his cue from the summertime and explores the Sun’s great influence in the history of medicine.

How do you turn a well-known historical event into a 3D motion ride? Bob Gwynne, Associate Curator at the National Railway Museum explains more.

How do you inspire the next generation of scientists? Holly in the Outreach team reflects on an event this summer.

Curator Emily Scott-Dearing reflects a new era for medicine at the Science Museum.

Communications Assistant Ellie Blanchette blogs on what happens when you invite a talented group of Instagrammers to photograph an empty Science Museum.

Forty years ago today (17 July) the Soviet Union and the United States shook hands in space during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Curator Doug Millard explains more.

Curator Ali Boyle and Press Officer Will Stanley reflect on our most distant (dwarf) planet, Pluto.