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.
To tie in with our magnificent PLAYER live gaming festival, the theme of this month’s Lates was – wait for it – gaming.
Ever wondered what to do with a room full of model boats in display cases? Play a 3D, to-scale version of Battleships of course!
Already excited about this month’s live gaming festival? Come along to our first ever Games Jam and help create a game to be played at the festival.
Exciting details about some of the games you can play at our live gaming festival PLAYER from 28 September to the 2 October.
Exciting details about some of the games you can play at our live gaming festival PLAYER from 28 September to the 2 October.
Corn flour slime, a cloud in a bucket and exploding hydrogen balloons – find out what our outreach team got up to at the Lollibop festival.
Here at the Science Museum we like to play games and we’re interested in how we can make the experience of visiting the Museum a bit more playful on a day to day basis.
An Imperial Stormtrooper stands outside the Science Museum stall – science fiction or science fact? The Science Museum at West End Live!
We need your help to come up with a name for our new live gaming festival. We’re looking for a name that sums up the adventurous nature of this real life gaming experience.
The 3rd May marks the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. The Festival celebrated the centenary of the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Crystal Palace as well as advances in British science, technology, manufacturing and art. You won’t be surprised to hear that some of our objects were displayed there. On first look, these fabric samples appear to be simple circular designs. To the trained eye however, the pattern is based on the structure of haemoglobin produced by x-ray […]
If ‘in space, no one can hear you scream’, as the publicity for the film Alien says, then certainly no one can hear Country music. Except, that is, if they are in a spaceship. Outer space is a vacuum and – like Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 crew – you can travel through it in a private capsule of sound. Each of the astronauts was allowed to take one tape on the mission, and Country music was […]