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 […]
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.