Curator of Chemistry, Sophie Waring, explores the lasting legacy of Bakelite®.
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 […]
With a major new exhibition at the Museum exploring the fertile ground in photography where science and art meet, Co-curator of Revelations: Experiments in Photography Dr Ben Burbridge looks at how scientific endeavour has had a profound effect on the visual languages of art.
As the current Media Space exhibition draws to a close at the Science Museum, Head of Photography Kate Bush looks at the history of the Science Museum Group’s photography collections.
In this post Hedy van Erp, co-curator of the new Media Space exhibition Make Life Worth Living, looks at the background of the exhibition and the significance of the photographs on display.
On the anniversary of Venera 7’s launch – the first spacecraft to successfully land on Venus – curator Doug Millard reflects on the challenge of exploring other worlds.