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A hundred years of the quantum atom
Alice Lighton, content developer for our Collider exhibition, writes about the history of quantum physics. Colider: step inside the world’s greatest experiment opens in November 2013 with a...
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Shackleton’s Man Goes South
Guest post by author Tony White, who writes about his new novel Shackleton’s Man Goes South, the Science Museum’s 2013 Atmosphere commission. Download the novel here. I’m really excited that the moment...
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Science Museum launches Britain’s first official astronaut
By Roger Highfield and Doug Millard. Roger Highfield is Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group. Doug Millard is Deputy Keeper Technologies & Engineering and is currently leading...
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LHC. Camera. Action! (part 1)
Dr. Harry Cliff, a Physicist working on the LHCb experiment and the first Science Museum Fellow of Modern Science, writes about his work on Collider, a new Science Museum exhibition opening in November...
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From Patches to Peake – celebrating 44 years since the Apollo 10 mission
Rachel Boon, Assistant Curator of Technologies and Engineering, writes about Apollo 10 and four decades of space exploration. Forty four years ago today, on 26th May 1969, NASA’s Apollo 10 command...
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LHC. Camera. Action! (Part 2)
Dr. Harry Cliff, a Physicist working on the LHCb experiment and the first Science Museum Fellow of Modern Science, writes about his recent filming trip to CERN for Collider, a new Science Museum...
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Happy birthday, Z boson
Alice Lighton, content developer for our Collider exhibition, writes about the history of quantum physics. Collider: step inside the world’s greatest experiment opens in November 2013 with a...
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Calling former telephone operators!
Jen Kavanagh, Audience Engagement Manager, writes about the search for stories for our new Information Age gallery opening in September 2014. Calling former telephone operators! We want to speak to...
View Article#TuringTour: Tweeting our Turing Exhibition
To celebrate Alan Turing’s birthday this week, curator David Rooney gave the #TuringTour, a tweeted live tour of our Codebreaker exhibition. The full tour can be seen here, but we’ve pick out a few...
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We want your telegrams!
Jen Kavanagh, Audience Engagement Manager, writes about the search for stories for our new Information Age gallery opening in September 2014. How do you send a message? Text? Email? What was used...
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Summer science at the Royal Society
Micol Molinari, Learning Resources Project Coordinator writes about the Summer Science Exhibition at the Royal Society. The exhibition runs from 2-7th July and is free entry. Exciting, colourful,...
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CERN: 60 years of not destroying the world
Ahead of November’s opening of the Collider exhibition, Content Developer Rupert Cole celebrates six decades of research at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Just before the Large...
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The Art of Boiling Beer: 60 years of the Bubble Chamber
Ahead of November’s opening of the Collider exhibition, Content Developer Rupert Cole explains how beer was used for cutting-edge particle physics research. Late one night in 1953, Donald Glaser...
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If Particle Physics Did Parties…
Ahead of November’s opening of the Collider exhibition, Content Developer Rupert Cole explores some famous physics parties of the past. As it happens, Carlsberg did do particle physics. The Danish...
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Wonderful Things: Brainbow mouse
This post is written by Alex, a 16-year old student who spent a week on work placement with the Learning team. The brain is one of the most complex biological organs in the world, and even today our...
View Article#MMWTour – Tweeting a tour of Making the Modern World
We asked Curator of Time, Transport and Navigation, David Rooney to tweet some of the hidden gems in the Making the Modern World gallery. Looking over our Making the Modern World gallery as we hand...
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Steampunk in the Science Museum
Our summer spectacular, The Energy Show, is staged in a steampunk world which blends the past and the future. Much inspiration for the show was taken from the Science Museum’s collection, especially...
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Click and zoink – it’s your birthday!
Ahead of November’s opening of the Collider exhibition, Content Developer Rupert Cole takes a look at the story behind the Geiger counter “The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter...
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Beaming with Joy: LHC celebrates five years of not destroying the world
Content Developer Rupert Cole, and Science Museum Fellow of Modern Science Dr. Harry Cliff, celebrate the LHC’s 5th birthday for Collider, a new Science Museum exhibition opening in November 2013. Five...
View ArticleAsk A Curator 2013
A global Q&A session, better known as Ask a Curator Day, takes place on Wednesday (18th Sept). Will Stanley, who manages the @sciencemuseum Twitter account, explains more… What’s the story behind...
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