In 1998, the Science Museum delivered an ambitious, ground-breaking touring exhibition that took many of its most important objects to Japan. Treasures of the Science Museum showcased objects that had never left Britain before. Its Project Curator, Nick Wyatt, now the museum’s Keeper of Library and Archives, explores this project, and describes more recent cooperation with Japan.
Nick Wyatt has worked in the Science Museum for 33 years where has fulfilled several roles within the library and archives department, which he has led for the past 10 years. He is now based at the Dana Research Centre and Library, which he helped to create. Nick has published on the history of the library and continues to research the origins of its collections.