Our collection Our diverse and internationally significant collection contains over 7 million items from across science, technology, engineering, medicine, transport and media.
Learning Category: The Science Museum Group’s Learning vision is ‘to enrich the lives of a large and diverse audience by igniting their curiosity in science’. With awe-inspiring authentic objects, cutting-edge science stories and hands-on activities, our museums celebrate and showcase the past, present and future of science and technology.
Sustainability Find out how we are changing the way we work to reduce our impact to chieve a rigorous net zero target by 2033.
Our approach and science capital Category: Science capital is a measure of your engagement or relationship with science, how you value it and whether you feel it is ‘for you’. Science engagement is at the heart of what we do, and we use science capital to gain research-based insight into what influences and shapes engagement with and attitudes towards science.
Projects Our work covers many different aspects, from conservation and curation to research and an extensive Learning programme.
Open for all Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group’s five core values. It underpins our working practices and is embedded into everything we do.
Research and Public History The Science Museum’s Research and Public History Department maintains a thriving research programme that promotes new ways of understanding our collections, audiences and exhibitions. It stages conferences, workshops and events and supports grant applications led by the museum and partner universities.
Audience research Category: We have nearly 20 years of continuous activity in a dedicated department, which has led to a large body of evidence and expertise in Audience Research. Read about the Audience Research and Advocacy team and download research reports.
Sharing our experience Category: With downloadable information sheets and research summaries from the Science Museum, you’ll have instant access to all we’ve learned about running sleepovers, outreach programmes, live events and much more.
