On this day in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright piloted the first ever recorded flight. But how did we get from mere dreams of flight to jumbo jets?
On this day in 1889 the Modernist painter Edward Wadsworth was born. Assistant Curator Rupert Cole explores an interaction Wadsworth had with Science Museum objects in the 1930s.
Curator Helen Peavitt explores the democratisation of consumer goods
On a wall at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich hangs a portrait of John Harrison on loan from the Science Museum Group (SMG) collections and Art Curator Katy Barrett tells us more about this intriguing man.
You can now watch Christopher Nolan’s latest block-buster ‘Dunkirk’ at the Science Museum IMAX Theatre. After the film you can explore the stories behind the innovative aircraft that saved countless lives and turned the tide of the war in our Flight Gallery.
The Science Museum Group is delighted to announce that it will be lending Robert Stephenson’s Rocket, one of Britain’s most famous feats of engineering, to the Great Exhibition of the North 2018.
A new lease of life for our shipping models in Voyages
Astronauts Tim Peake and Tim Kopra wowed hundreds of school children with tales from the International Space Station (ISS) on the same day the European Space Agency (ESA) attempted to land the Schiaparelli module on Mars.
Hanging at the centre of Mathematics: The Winton Gallery is the Handley Page ‘Gugnunc’, an experimental aeroplane built in 1929. Curator David Rooney explores the story of this eloquent, striking and powerful embodiment of the mathematics of risk.
A new summer exhibition at the Science Museum explores the Big Data revolution.
Dr Harry Cliff celebrates Back to the Future Day with a look at the physics of time travel.
For the last two years my job has been to work out how to transport rocket engines, gigantic spacecraft and 150 other incredible artefacts from Moscow to London and into the Cosmonauts exhibition. We are borrowing artefacts of all shapes and sizes – from small pencil drawings of early twentieth century rocket designs to Vostok 6, the full-size spacecraft that transported the first women into space in 1963 – from museums, private individuals and even the Russian Space Agency. We […]