Volunteer Chris Burton reflects on helping maintain and run Pegasus, one of the oldest computers in the world.
Charles Michel, chef and researcher on food aesthetics at Oxford University explores the first results from an experiment in the Science Museum’s Cravings exhibition.
This year we were pleased to bring the exciting, explosion-filled Material World show to the Hong Kong Science Museum and schools across the region.
Assistant Curator Jack Mitchell explores how the Atlas of Ophthalmoscopy helped increase our understanding of the human eye
Professor Sophie Scott explains her latest experiment (running at the museum) into the science behind laughter.
Ben, a Science Museum’s Explainer, looks at equations in action in our Launchpad gallery.
Jane Desborough, Associate Curator of Science explores our collection of Robert Hooke microscopes as we celebrate 350 years since the publication of a truly remarkable book.
Baroness Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of Lastminute.com and chairs of the digital skills charity, Go ON UK, delivered the 2015 Richard Dimbleby Lecture from the Information Age gallery at the Science Museum.
With a major new exhibition at the Museum exploring the fertile ground in photography where science and art meet, Co-curator of Revelations: Experiments in Photography Dr Ben Burbridge looks at how scientific endeavour has had a profound effect on the visual languages of art.
Lucy Minshall- Pearson and Adam Boal from our Special Events Team writes about developing a new series of events for families with children who are visually impaired.
On 16 March, the Longitude Prize brought together a range of speakers to discuss what makes a Longitude Prize winner in an event at the Science Museum.
The most eagerly-awaited science party of the season took place a few days ago in the Science Museum once again, after a gap of more than two decades.