Next mission revealed for Dr Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space
Dr Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, today declared that she would like to join Science Museum director on a space flight during the launch of the museum’s most ambitious exhibition ever,...
View ArticleRevealing the invisible
Adam Stoneman, Explainer at the Science Museum looks at the impact of the early photographic experiments in Media Space exhibition Revelations, and wonders whether today’s innovations will have the...
View Article50 Years After Churchill: A Tribute From The Science Museum Group
By Laura Singleton, Press Officer, Science Museum The 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s death is being marked across the Science Museum Group with two new exhibitions and the release of a...
View ArticleCelebrating Churchill’s Scientists with Sir Winston’s great-grandson
By Laura Singleton, Press Officer ‘Science isn’t a word most people associate with my great-grandfather’ said Randolph Churchill, standing in front of an imposing image of his iconic relative as he...
View ArticleWinston Churchill: style icon and inventor of the ‘onesie’
Martin Wise, Archivist at Turnbull & Asser shares the story behind Sir Winston Churchill’s famous ‘siren suit’, as one goes on display for the first time in the Museum’s new Churchill’s Scientists...
View ArticleWinston Churchill: Up In The Air
Rachel Boon looks at the lesser known story of Winston Churchill’s passion for flying, soon to be revealed in a new exhibition, Churchill’s Scientists, which opens on 23 January.
View ArticleHow To Survive A Christmas On Rations: Eat, Exercise And Be Merry
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,...
View ArticleCelebrating Dorothy Hodgkin: Britain’s First Female Winner of a Nobel Science...
Rachel Boon, Content Developer, looks at the legacy of one of Britain’s most famous scientists, one of the stars of a new exhibition, Churchill’s Scientists, which opens in January 2015 Today marks...
View ArticleThe end of AIDS?
Nicola Burghall, Content Developer, blogs about HIV and AIDS, the subject of a new display in the Museum’s Who Am I? gallery December 1st 2014 marks the 26th World AIDS Day. The UNAIDS ‘90-90-90’...
View ArticleImitation Game Special Preview at the Science Museum
Laura Singleton, Press Officer, describes an extraordinary celebration of codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing at an exclusive screening of the new film, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict...
View ArticleDogs in Space
On this day (3 November) in 1957, just one month after the launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, a dog called Laika was sent into space, become the first living thing to orbit our...
View ArticleWonderful Things: Memory box
Rosanna Denyer from our Learning Support Team writes about one of her favourite Science Museum objects.
View ArticleCelebrating the opening of Information Age
By Laura Singleton, Press Officer On Friday, we were delighted to welcome Her Majesty The Queen to open our pioneering new Information Age gallery at the Science Museum. The Queen opened the gallery by...
View ArticleOpen for Business: The story of contemporary British industry
Curator Ben Russell reflects on the story of contemporary British industry, on show in our Open for Business exhibition.
View ArticleMake Life Worth Living – Nick Hedges’ Photographs for Shelter, 1968-72
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. Nick Hedges...
View ArticleGrand Designs For Information Age
Nick Rolls, Design Project Leader at Universal Design Studio, reflects on the design of the Science Museum’s new Information Age gallery.
View ArticleLife on the Exchange – Stories From The hello girls
Sunday 5 October marks the 54th anniversary of the Enfield Exchange switching from manual to automatic exchange. To celebrate, Jen Kavanagh, Audience Engagement Manager, spoke to telephone operators...
View ArticleGlobal Telephone Calls For All
David Hay, Head of Heritage & Archives at BT, reflects on the story of the first transatlantic telephone cable, TAT1, which opened 58 years ago today (25 September).
View ArticleThe Rubbish Collection by Joshua Sofaer
In the final post of our series linked to The Rubbish Collection the artist behind the project, Joshua Sofaer, looks back at a truly ambitious exhibition.
View ArticleBringing Maths to Life at the Science Museum
Today, we announced an ambitious new mathematics gallery that will open in 2016.
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