Rachel Boon blogs on creating a new display to explore the life and legacy of Alexander Parkes.
We asked author and journalist Marcus Chown, who is speaking at this month’s Lates, to share his Top 10 Bonkers Things About the World.
Geoff Chapman is a Science Museum volunteer who catalogued a box of amateur radio materials for our exciting new gallery Information Age.
To celebrate our Collider exhibition, we worked with the BAFTA award-winning Brothers McLeod to bring particle physics to life in this short animation. Rupert Cole interviewed scriptwriter Myles to find out how they did it.
Explainer Affelia in our Learning team looks at some mischievous mirrors in the Science Museum. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? We all know this famous saying from Snow White, but mirrors are incredibly useful in our day to day lives. We use them in the morning to check our hair, in cars to avoid crashes and some buildings have them in corridors for safety. But there are some other, more mischievous, ways to use […]
Tim Boon, Head of Research & Public History, uncovers Kraftwerk and the connections between music and technology ahead of a live performance at the Science Museum.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield visited the Science Museum to share stories, sign books and explore our space technologies collections with Curator Doug Millard.
Sue Mossman explores the life of Alexander Parkes, inventor of early plastics.
A posthumous pardon has been granted to the great mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and philosopher, reports Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, examines Lily Cole’s gift culture project impossible.com which launched its ‘giving trees’ at the Science Museum in September Visitors to the Science Museum’s adults only Lates event left a total of 1500 wishes in a little copse of ‘giving trees’ established in the museum’s Wellcome wing by the model, actor, activist and entrepreneur Lily Cole. The wishes were left during the September, October and November Lates, which were visited by as many as 15,000 […]
Press Officer Laura Singleton explores some festive 3D printing. Christmas can be one of the most stressful times of the year – with presents to wrap, trees to be put up and cards to be written. Finding the perfect gift or decoration can be expensive, time-consuming and exhausting. Could the rise of 3D printing provide the answer to our seasonal woes and even tap into our hidden creativity? Earlier this month we were pleased to unveil a dramatic 3D printed titanium […]
A guest blog from Kate Pearson, Deputy Head of Charities and Trusts Manager at People’s Postcode Lottery