Vanessa Applebaum reveals how we conserve and care for objects before they go on display in the Museum.
Curator Stewart Emmens reveals some of the stories from our Wounded exhibition.
Today’s engineers will need lateral thinking of the kind used by the great wartime inventor Sir Barnes Wallis if they are to respond effectively to challenges such as climate change, according to a Cambridge lecturer.
Keeper David Rooney shares the story of Ruth Belville, the ‘Greenwich Time Lady’.
Dr Robert Bud, Research Keeper at the Science Museum, previews a new conference devoted to science and culture.
The exhibition opened to the public on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s death. It celebrates a crucial, but often overlooked element of Churchill’s life and legacy – his relationship with science and the incredible breakthroughs that he championed during his time as Prime Minister, during the Second World War and post-war era.
Rachel Boon, Content Developer, reveals the radical quest by two nutritionists to create a healthy national diet during the Second World War – one of the stories featured in a new exhibition, Churchill’s Scientists.
We all know the story of the First World War Christmas Day football match, we have all seen the recent popular supermarket Christmas advert depicting the event and we have all hummed along to Paul Mccartney’s ‘Pipes of Peace’. These romanticised versions can often hide the fact that the First World War, whilst massive in scale, was a very personal event; impacting on every city, every town, every factory, every business, every family in the county. The Science Museum, only […]
This week (8 September 2014) marks 70 years since the first V-2 rocket attack on London. Curator Doug Millard looks back on the rocket that help start the space age.
BBC2 recently broadcast a drama about Robert Watson-Watt’s fight to invent the radar. Curator Andrew Nahum takes a closer look at this incredible story.
Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn discusses his most famous work in conversation with the Director of the Science Museum.
Selina Hurley, Assistant Curator of Medicine, takes a look at the story behind a new addition to our collections.