International Year of the Periodic Table collecting project

The Science Museum Group is collecting material telling the story of the UN’s International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT) in 2019. Our aim is to preserve for the future a record of the worldwide celebrations around the 150th anniversary of the periodic table.

We are looking for all kinds of material, from home-made periodic tables to printed ephemera relating to IYPT events.

We hope partner organisations and individuals will submit suggestions of items we could collect.

The submissions selected will form part of the Science Museum Group Collection alongside our world-class holdings in chemistry, which include:

Dmitri Mendeleev’s first published periodic table
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s molecular model of penicillin
A skirt and blouse dyed with William Perkin’s mauve aniline dye.

As part of the permanent collection, the IYPT material will be available to future generations for exhibitions, education projects and historical research.

If you would like to donate something please complete the submission form below:

Submission form

We may not be able to accept all offers due to volume, but we hope to collect a representative sample of the different types of activities and personal responses to the IYPT celebrations. If selected, we will contact you with further information on how to donate.

Name

Email address

Brief description of object

Who made it?)

Where was it made?

When was it made?

What was it used for?

Size (in mm)?

What is it made of?

Upload an image of the material you would like to donate (maximum file size 2MB)

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While we may not be able to accept all offers, we hope to collect a representative sample of different activities and personal responses to the IYPT celebrations. If your suggested item is selected, we will contact you with further information on how to donate the item to the collection.