Not everyone knows that the Science Museum is home to an ongoing contemporary arts program, so we thought we would give you a bit of an update about what we have going on in the Museum art-wise.
From Thursday 1 until Sunday 4 December, 23 robots will be setting up home in the Museum as part of our four day event – Robotville.
Tell us your genius uses for the everyday objects in our Hidden Heroes exhibition – and check out some really creative things people have made.
Giant Cockroaches giving tours of the Museum? Find out what they’ve got to say for themselves.
Hollywood glamour isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when you think of a museum store but Blythe House, the Science Museum’s small object store, is the red hot destination for filmmakers right now.
Next Wednesday we’ve got an exciting new exhibition opening. Hidden Heroes explores the way in which 36 of our unsung design classics came into existence.
It’s November, which means that some of your friends may sprout some dubious facial hair over the next few weeks. Yes, it’s that time of year again when thousands of blokes bid goodbye to their razors and grow a moustache to raise awareness for men’s health issues. For anyone unsure which style to adopt, there’s plenty of inspiration to be found in the Science Museum. The most famous scientific moustache is of course Albert Einstein’s, which has spawned some truly […]
This is undoubtedly our most famous painting: Philip J. de Loutherbourg’s 1801 ‘Coalbrookdale by Night’, a noisome depiction of the industrial revolution in all its terrible glory. Here are the ‘Bedlam furnaces’ in action – open coke hearths used for smelting iron, the visible face of a burgeoning coal industry. But if we dig a little deeper, we find a rich and little-known iconographic seam in the Science Museum’s art collection. For one thing, what de Loutherbourg saw at Coalbrookdale was […]
Last month we held our first ever Games Jam. Six games were created but there could only be one winner – find out which one it was…
Have you ever noticed on exhibition labels, the small, sometimes non-sensical number that follows the blurb about an object? These numbers are vital to help us find out what the object is and locate it on our database. With a collection of over 200,000 objects, on three different sites and around 95% in storage we certainly need all the help we can get. When objects arrive at the museum they are assigned a temporary number. Many different systems have been used […]
On Tuesday the second phase of Oramics to Electronica opened to the public. To celebrate we’re going to launch ‘Oramix’ – a remix competition.
The Unbuilt Room is a 1980s computer text adventure made real.You remember text adventures: “You’re in a room…”, “Exits are North and East”, “GET LAMP”, that sort of thing.