Curator of upcoming 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?
Unexpected objects in the Science Museum Group collection related to Arthur Conan Doyle.
Will Stanley blogs on how ten London museums are collaborating on an exciting new Instagram project.
Communications Assistant Ellie Blanchette blogs on what happens when you invite a talented group of Instagrammers to photograph an empty Science Museum.
Revelations: Experimentations in Photography traces the impact of early scientific experiments on the history of photography and showcases the innovative scientists and artists who strived to see the world anew. Early pioneers like Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton and Eadweard Muybridge were driven by a desire to reveal the invisible processes and structures of our physical world. This desire is still with us and today there are countless magazines, websites and blogs dedicated to sharing photographic experiments – both dark room and […]