A five-year roadmap to help the aviation sector achieve net-zero climate impact by 2050 is published today by a Cambridge University team. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports.
As part of the Science Museum Group’s commitment to building a more diverse and representative workforce we partnered with the 10000 Interns Foundation to introduce a Summer Internship scheme in 2023. Now in its second year, this programme has already had a huge impact across our museums.
The 2024 Landscape Artist of the Year prize was a commission by the Science Museum Group to capture the story of Orkney’s central role in the UK’s transition to low-carbon, renewable energy.
The culmination of a project with Google Arts & Culture has seen the digitisation of thousands of objects.
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.
This weekend we celebrate the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey. Inspired by this historic event, we’ve delved into the collection and highlighted what you can see and do this weekend in our museums.
British Science Week is always a highlight of the year for our colleagues and our young visitors – this year has been no exception with a wide range of activities happening all across the Science Museum Group. British Science Week is a 10-day celebration of science, engineering, technology and maths. Taking place from Friday 10 – Sunday 19 March 2023, this year’s theme is Connections.
The Amazon, the world’s biggest tropical rainforest, shows signs of distress. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports on new data that show how this remarkable ecosystem could turn into a savannah.
Inspired by LGBTQ+ history month, Assistant Curators Laura Büllesbach and Rebecca Mellor explore four objects in our collection which can help tell stories of LGBTQ+ communities, experiences and identities.
As Audio Eyes gets a major update, we share the story behind this audio descriptive app for blind and partially sighted visitors
On Tuesday 19 October, the Science Museum welcomed 180 of the world’s top investors in innovation for a Global Investment Summit hosted by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Read on to discover more about our work to make temporary exhibitions more sustainable and reduce our environmental impact.