Explore our relationship with the telephone through new artworks inspired by our collection and created during lockdown.
As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission draws nearer, Science Museum curator John Liffen reminisces about watching the launch from the museum.
Follow this transport trail and go on a journey of exploration and discovery around the Science Museum.
Follow this codebreaking and communications trail and go on a journey of exploration and discovery around the Science Museum.
Director of External Affairs, Roger Highfield, recounts the conversation between Eric Schmidt and Brian Cox on the future of AI
To celebrate the return of our hands-on gaming event, Power UP, one of our ambassadors explores five key turning points in gaming history.
The Science Museum has joined Google Arts & Culture, enabling people across the world to experience the museum in Google Street View for the first time.
Information Age has now made it to the finals of this year’s National Lottery Awards for Best Heritage Project
Volunteer Chris Burton reflects on helping maintain and run Pegasus, one of the oldest computers in the world.
Baroness Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of Lastminute.com and chairs of the digital skills charity, Go ON UK, delivered the 2015 Richard Dimbleby Lecture from the Information Age gallery at the Science Museum.
Featuring over 800 objects and spanning 200 years of dramatic moments in the history of communication and information technology, the Information Age gallery provided us with the perfect opportunity to bring a new edge to storytelling through the most advanced digital technology. In each of the six areas of the gallery (Networks) digital elements work in harmony with historical objects to help increase visitors’ understanding and enjoyment of the Museum’s collections. In a Science Museum first, the gallery features a […]
150 years ago today (1 January), James Clerk Maxwell published his work on light, electricity and magnetism. Our resident physicist, Dr. Harry Cliff, reflects on how Maxwell helped transform the way we live.