Curator Ali Boyle blogs on Big Science, a recent discussion about science and society since WWII that was part of our Collider events series. If you want to get an understanding of giant scientific projects like CERN, go into your kitchen and take your microwave apart. Actually don’t – we recommend that you leave potentially-destructive household experiments to the guidance of Punk Science. But as Jon Agar points out, a household device that we now take for granted contains […]
Laura from the learning team shares some alternative things to see on a trip to the Museum.
Nicola Burghall is a Content Developer and part of the Contemporary Science team at the Science Museum. Here she blogs about National Astronomy Week and the free upcoming festival Beyond Earth.
Alice Williams on working behind the scenes in our conservation team
Jack Gelsthorpe and Lauren Souter are both Audience Researchers working on the new Information Age gallery. Here they discuss some of the work they do in prototyping digital media for the exhibition. In September 2014 an exciting new gallery, Information Age, which celebrates the history of information and communication technologies, is due to open at the Science Museum. The gallery will include some truly fascinating objects such as the 2LO transmitter, part of the Enfield telephone Exchange and the impressive Rugby Tuning […]
Quantum physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili blogs on interviewing Peter Higgs for the new series of The Life Scientific.
Jen Kavanagh reports on a project to scan telegrams from across the UK for a new communications gallery opening in 2014.
Collider exhibition curator Dr. Harry Cliff blogs on Dirac’s discoveries and anticipating antimatter.
Katie Burke, who manages the Interactive galleries and Explainer team, talks about the development of the new Splash! app
Chloe Vince, a volunteer working on the upcoming Information Age gallery, celebrates 30 years of the Apple Macintosh computer.
Shaun Aitcheson from our Learning Support Team writes about one of his favourite Science Museum objects.
Martyn Harris, cyclist and entrepreneur, looks at how 3D printing inspired him to launch a new business. See more examples of 3D Printing in our 3D: Printing the future exhibition. My two lifelong passions are cycling and engineering. As a child I could regularly be found either riding my bike or constructing some new contraption out of lego. I started racing mountain bikes at the age of 13 and after leaving school, embarked on a four year apprenticeship to become a […]