Explore our relationship with the telephone through new artworks inspired by our collection and created during lockdown.
Dr. Dimitrios Adamos and Dr. Stefanos Zafeiriou from the Department of Computing, Imperial College London explore how brain waves can tell you about the music you listen to as part of a Live Science residency at the Science Museum that ran from February – March 2020.
In 2016, the Research & Public History team embarked on the challenge of bringing old silent film technology to life through music. Megan Bradbury explains more.
A panel chaired by Jarvis Cocker discussed the advancing technology in music and where artificial intelligence might lead us. Chris Bell explores more.
Assistant Curator Esme Loukota unwraps the story of a rather unusual phonograph from our collection that was specially designed to play records made from chocolate.
As 2018 draws to a close, we share a few fascinating objects which joined the collection this year.
On the centenary of the end of the Great War, photographer Judit Gyula uncovers a remarkable gramophone from the Western Front.
Roger Highfield discusses an improvised musical encounter between musician Joe Stilgoe, polymath Philip Ball and the Museum’s IMAX audience.
Author and polymath Philip Ball gives the background to a special IMAX improvisation event with acclaimed singer, pianist and songwriter Joe Stilgoe at our July Lates.
To celebrate 51 years since Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was first released, we look at five ways The Beatles influenced the world of science.
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.
We recently surprised our visitors with an impromptu performance of parts of Holst’s Planets by a 90-piece orchestra.