Projects

Time Loops addresses the conundrum that museums face in collecting and exhibiting objects for making sound and music.

Communicating Time and Culture: Championing a Global Perspective in Science and Technology through Public Engagement (CTC) is an AHRC follow-on project from AHRC funded project, The Co-Creation of Historical Research and Co-Development of Visitor Experience in China and the UK (TCI).

This is a two-year research project examining the changing relationships between STEM museums and industrial patronage, through both historical and contemporary lenses.

The Science Museum Group has partnered with Club for the Future and Blue Origin on a project to inspire the next generation of space explorers.

A six-month research project aimed at enabling Science Museum Group (SMG) to take a strategic approach to funding applications and areas of research interest.

A consultation of adults, families, schools and professionals in the UK, Brazil and India on food sustainability, and how they could be engaged more effectively.

The Congruence Engine is a three-year research project starting in November 2021 that will use the latest digital techniques to connect industrial history collections held in different locations.

Over the last two years, the Science Museum Group has undertaken fascinating and important work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This project aimed to examine the relationship between science, technology and occultism in modern Britain.

SPID theatre group worked with our staff to share stories from the Science Museum collection on the theme of climate change.

This project aims to develop new processes and tools that will enable volunteers to lead the development and realisation of a citizen science project from the very beginning.

This two-year partnership saw the Science Museum Group contribute to and improve content on Wikipedia.

#SonicFriday aimed to find new ways of making people interact with the Science Museum Group’s Sound Technologies collection using digital platforms.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic our curators are actively, and sensitively, researching stories and identifying objects to collect on the nation’s behalf.

How can digital techniques be used to create and manage relationships for collections content?

An initiative bringing best-practice techniques and tools to improve museums' digital output.