To celebrate 40 years since Elite’s release, Matthew Horsfall, Curator of Game Technologies, explores the impact of one of the first truly ‘open world’ video games and its influence on the industry.
As Paris gets ready for the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony, we take a closer look at collection objects focusing on the flaming star of the show: the Olympic torch.
With just seconds remaining in the last 16 match between England and Slovakia at the European Championships, Jude Bellingham arched the ball back over his head and into the goal.
65 years ago today, on 11 June 1959, the Saunders-Roe Nautical 1 (SR-N1) hovercraft was flown in public for the first time on the Isle of Wight. This has been described as the world’s first hovercraft and at the time was seen as a key step towards a new technology that would alter transportation of the future.
Marina Rees, Collections Project Officer, looks through the flotsam and jetsam of the collection to chart how scientists have tried to understand and measure the movements of the ocean.
Assistant Curator Sabrina Ruffino Giummara takes a closer look at ancient coins in the collection and how they can provide unique insights into the past.
For a fourth year, the Science Museum Group is bringing together science and poetry to mark National Poetry Day (3 October 2024).
Matt Moore, Associate Director of the Science and Innovation Park, reflects on the history and exciting future for the Science Museum Group’s largest site.
Assistant Curator, Esme Mahoney-Phillips, delves into the history of robotic animals and ticks off highlights from the collection to show that these feats of engineering are more than just a modern mechanical innovation.
Discover some of the stranger uses for explosives, from life-saving technologies to fire-stopping grenades, as we reveal recently unpacked items from the collection.
Some of our largest objects have been moved into their new home, a new collection management facility at the Science and Innovation Park in Wiltshire. In 2024, the facility will open for public tours, school and research visits, enabling people to explore much more of the collection than ever before.
As the Science Museum Group Collection acquires a new print by Rachel Whiteread DBE, Anna Ferrari, Curator of Art and Visual Culture at the Science Museum, explores how two artists evoke COVID-19 and the pandemic.