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.
It’s been a record year for visitors across the Science Museum Group. Director Ian Blatchford explains more
The eagerly anticipated Scientists meet the Media party took place at the Royal Society last week, continuing a long tradition of annual gatherings to foster mutual understanding between the inhabitants of Fleet Street and Britain’s laboratories. Speeches to the audience of several hundred in the world’s oldest academy of science were given by new President of the Royal Society, Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum Group, and John Mulholland, editor of The Observer. As […]
Celebrating Tim Peake’s mission into space at the Science Museum with 11,000 visitors, 72 events, four cosmonauts and two live broadcasts
How do you inspire the next generation of scientists? Holly in the Outreach team reflects on an event this summer.
Anna Fisher, Learning Resources Project Coordinator, shares the latest news from the Building Bridges project. An amazing VIP late-night event occurred at the Science Museum last week for students involved in the Building Bridges project. The students have been working with us all year and this special celebration was a chance for them to show off the work they have done to their families, and get involved in a variety of exciting activities such as extracting strawberry DNA, eating ice cream made […]
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has told hundreds of young visitors to the Science Museum of his strong belief that extraterrestrial life will be found.
This year we were pleased to bring the exciting, explosion-filled Material World show to the Hong Kong Science Museum and schools across the region.
The most eagerly-awaited science party of the season took place a few days ago in the Science Museum once again, after a gap of more than two decades.
To mark British Science Week, the Science Museum hosted a special event with the British Science Association for over 400 children from the Kids Company London Centres. Kids Company Team Leader Lycia reflects on a day of science based fun Bang! Whizz! Pop! What a fabulous time we spent at the Science Museum earlier this week as we joined forces with the British Science Association to give a group of young people a wonderful day out to celebrate British Science Week. […]
Held in the conference centre at the National Railway Museum, the Science Museum Group’s Annual General Meeting gave staff an opportunity to share the ambitious strategic plans being shaped at the Group’s sites around the country and, in Crossrail Chairman Terry Morgan’s presentation, to hear how Europe’s largest construction project is being kept on time and on budget. Alongside Mr Morgan, the other highlight of the day was the formal introduction to the Group of our new Chairman, Dame Mary Archer.
New outreach officer Heather Patrick, talks about her experiences as a new member of the team.