Bookings open today for a free exhibition to showcase the Royal Photographic Society’s first Science Photographer of the Year competition, says judge and Science Director Roger Highfield.
Over 50,000 images are now in our online collection, to celebrate we went behind the scenes with our photography team.
Go behind the scenes with Kira as she delivers the first round of photogrammetry training to Science Museum Group colleagues and creates 3D models of our collection.
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.
Curator of our recent exhibition The Sun: Living With Our Star, Dr Oliver Carpenter, takes a look back to the most important eclipse of the nineteenth century.
Ahead of the opening of our new exhibition The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution, associate curator Lottie Dodwell explores the extraordinary century-old investigation into the disappearance of the Romanovs.
Rahaab Allana, Consulting Curator for Illuminating India: Photography 1857-2017, expresses his point of view.
Sarah Gaunt celebrates innovations that have revolutionised the way we see and capture the world around us.
Curator of Chemistry, Sophie Waring, explores Bakelite’s lasting legacy.
Go behind the scenes with Kira and her colleagues from the Collections Services team as they attempt to capture a Cuneo
Today Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists around the world celebrate the auspicious festival of Diwali.
From radio and radar to MRI and fibre optics, do you know just how many of the world’s revolutionary innovations were developed and patented in Britain?