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.
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.
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.
After a landmark regulatory approval, gene editing is now being trialled with children, reports Roger Highfield, Science Director.
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.
The Royal Red Cross Medal, awarded to Elizabeth Batten, is one of the last objects leaving Blythe House for its new home at the National Collections Centre, part of the Science and Innovation Park in Wiltshire.
For a third year, the Science Museum Group has brought together science and poetry to celebrate National Poetry Day (5 October 2023).