Sixty years on, Art Curator Katy Barrett reflects on the ‘Two cultures’ lecture and a new acquisition that challenges the ideas it presented.
500 years after his death, we reflect on the life and ideas of Leonardo da Vinci.
Director and Academy-Award winning visual effects designer, Paul Franklin, talks about his fascination with Kubrick’s sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey and the joys of watching an ‘unrestored’ print.
We take a close up look at the history of two of the last Imperial Fabergé Easter Eggs ever to be made, currently on display in The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution.
Ahead of London Fashion Week, we’re looking back at how the Sun has helped inspire trends in the colours and clothes we choose to wear.
Hear from up-and-coming Brazilian artist Rafael Alonso about his piece ‘Very Nice’, the artwork he created for The Sun: Living With Our Star.
To celebrate Antarctica Live at the Science Museum, we speak to award-winning choreographer Corey Baker about his trip to the coldest, driest, windiest place on Earth to film Antarctica: The First Dance.
To mark the summer solstice Lead Curator of recent exhibition The Sun: Living With Our Star, Harry Cliff, explores the year without summer.
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.