Wonderful Things: Memory box
Rosanna Denyer from our Learning Support Team writes about one of her favourite Science Museum objects.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleNext 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,...
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