Discover how London grew from a lively capital city to a global hub for trade, commerce, and scientific enquiry between 1550 and 1800. In 1550, London was a hustling, bustling, rapidly expanding ...

Experience life on the International Space Station as you journey into orbit around our home planet. Recommended for KS2 upwards (ages 7+). See fantastic images of the Earth from the International ...

Every donation to the Science Museum is gratefully received. Your generosity is vitally important to our continued success, benefiting the Museum and rewarding you in the process. Gift Aid is a UK ...

The museum is open daily, 10.00–18.00 (last entry 17.15). During school holidays the museum is open Monday–Sunday, 10.00–18.00 (last entry 17.15). Galleries start to close 30 minutes before the museum ...

Bookings are open for group visits up to 31 August 2026. Formal education groups, home educators, youth and adult groups, as well as community organisations and tour operators can check availability, ...

Before antibiotics, a relatively minor infection could prove incurable or even deadly. Everything from paper cuts to childbirth had the potential to kill through bacterial infection. The accidental ...

The process to transform a designer’s drawing of characters (letters of the alphabet, numbers, punctuation, symbols) into a new Monotype typeface involved eighty-two successive operations. This story ...

Climate change is a reality in all our lives—but some places and people are already more severely and directly affected by it than others. The Arctic is one of the fastest warming regions on our earth ...

Jackson, one of the UK’s leading experts in human spaceflight, will play a key role in the museum’s space-related public engagement activities while supporting the museum’s curators to acquire new ...

The first significant UK exhibition to be presented on the subject of carbon capture and storage, Our Future Planet will open on 19 May 2021 when the Science Museum re-opens its doors and will remain ...

The creation of three impressive new galleries will reimagine the Science Museum’s ground floor, taking a bold approach to telling stories of the science of today, the history of invention, and the ...

Powerful permanent magnets can play a crucial role in modern technology but magnets have fascinated people and had many uses throughout history. Dan Reardon is an Australian astrophysicist: he ...