We asked our very own Explainers about their favourite exhibits in Wonderlab: The Equinor Gallery. Here’s what they said.
Director of External Affairs, Roger Highfield, talks to Dr Venki Ramakrishnan, and Dr Eugenia Cheng about the “man who knew infinity”
Roger Highfield explores the beauty of mathematics at a recent event at the Science Museum
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.
Exploring the first realisation that zero is a number
Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day
Roger Highfield describes the launch of the Museum’s pioneering Mathematics gallery, designed by Dame Zaha Hadid.
When are you going to die? This isn’t a question any of us know the answer to. But it’s one that has preoccupied politicians, philosophers, scientists and engineers for centuries. A week ago the Science Museum hosted a special TEDxLondon event on ‘the end of ageing’. Guest-curated by high-altitude physician and entrepreneur Dr Jack Kriendler, speakers tackled issues of life, death and ageing from a myriad of perspectives: biology, moral philosophy, science fiction, art and digital technology. The discussion challenged […]
Later this year, we launch Mathematics: The Winton Gallery. Jessica Bradford explores how we make this sometimes divisive subject engaging for our visitors.
When Wonderlab: The Statoil Gallery opens in October 2016, we will extend our reach beyond traditional museum audiences with a series of important charity partnerships. Tom O’Leary explains more.
Hanging at the centre of Mathematics: The Winton Gallery is the Handley Page ‘Gugnunc’, an experimental aeroplane built in 1929. Curator David Rooney explores the story of this eloquent, striking and powerful embodiment of the mathematics of risk.