Share your vaccine trial story and be part of an exhibition
Now 2018 has come to an end, Aran Shaunak celebrates the Science Museum Group’s contribution to the Year of Engineering.
A volunteer at the Science Museum has created his own mini version of Eric the UK’s first robot.
Celebrating our Volunteers at the Science Museum Volunteer Awards for 2016
Behind the scenes of our upcoming Robots exhibition, a team of ten volunteers have been creating a collection of handling objects.
We asked six of our enthusiastic Cosmonauts exhibition volunteers to share their experiences so far.
Volunteer Chris Burton reflects on helping maintain and run Pegasus, one of the oldest computers in the world.
Chloe Vince, Science Museum Volunteer, tells the dramatic story of the laying of the first transatlantic cable, one of the highlights of our Information Age gallery.
Chloe Vince looks at how the 1967 Wimbledon Championships made broadcasting history.
Sally Munday-Webb, Volunteer coordinator at Science Museum blogs on our award-winning volunteers. Delroy Joseph (DJ) has been a volunteer at the Science Museum for over a year now. He came to us through Certitude, a company that supports people with learning difficulties or mental health support needs into employment, training or education. His advisor, Teresa, got in touch as she thought DJ would make a great volunteer. DJ started at the Museum as a volunteer ambassador, meaning he helps our visitors […]
We have some amazing volunteers doing fantastic work helping us uncover more about our collections. Regina and Alix started volunteering with the Science Museum in October 2011, and are currently working on a project to catalogue the museum’s extensive microscope slide collections. Here’s the first in a series of blogs they’ve written to let you know more about what they’ve discovered in the basement of our store at Blythe House… Imagine a room full to the brim with curious wooden […]
Magnified bee from George Adams’ Essays on the Microscope, 1787 (Science Museum).