To mark this year’s summer solstice Lead Curator of The Sun: Living With Our Star, Harry Cliff, explores the year without summer, and the fear and art it inspired.
Rahaab Allana, Consulting Curator for Illuminating India: Photography 1857-2017, expresses his point of view.
Go behind the scenes with Kira and her colleagues from the Collections Services team as they attempt to capture a Cuneo
On this day in 1889 the Modernist painter Edward Wadsworth was born. Assistant Curator Rupert Cole explores an interaction Wadsworth had with Science Museum objects in the 1930s.
On 3 October 2017 the Science Museum opened new season Illuminating India to VIP guests.
From radio and radar to MRI and fibre optics, do you know just how many of the world’s revolutionary innovations were developed and patented in Britain?
The story behind John Harrison’s portrait at the Royal Observatory.
On Monday 21 August 2017, a solar eclipse was visible across most of the United States for the first time in a century. To celebrate, curator Ali Boyle shared a short history of eclipses and a few favourite objects from our collection.
Take a look at the story behind The Last Supper
A new lease of life for our shipping models in Voyages
Sophie Waring looks at how the Festival of Britain brought science and art together
Dr Howard Coutts, Curator of Decorative Arts at The Bowes Museum, shares the incredible story of the Silver Swan, which will star in the Science Museum’s 2017 Robots exhibition.