Even when the museum is closed, our collection—and the inspirational stories it contains—remains open to you online. Take a look at the Museum as captured by Google Streetview in 2016, including a ...

This exhibition closed in March 2016. For details of our current exhibitions, visit our See and Do page. This exhibition uncovered the dramatic story of how Russia turned the dream of space travel ...

Step into an interactive world of careers and take a peek behind the scenes in our brand new gallery. Try hands on exhibits that bring to life a wide variety of workplaces, from a blockbuster film set ...

From mould to toilets to teddy bears, adopt an iconic object from £3 a month and help us spark wonder and curiosity in the next generation of innovators. We have hand-selected six iconic Science ...

Explore our collection, complete brain-teasing puzzles or learn about science with our range of science games and apps. We've had to retire some of our older games as ...

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 ...

Antibiotics were nothing short of miraculous when they were first mass produced in 1940s. Infections from surgery, childbirth, even scraping your knee went from killing millions every year, to being ...

Celebrated and criticised, engineered and abandoned, roads have profoundly shaped our landscape, economy and personal mobility. Since the Romans introduced the first programme of planned road-building ...

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 ...

Today the Science Museum announced an unprecedented eight-figure donation from the Serum Institute of India, led by CEO Adar Poonawalla. Serum Institute of India is the world’s largest vaccine ...

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 ...

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 ...