Science Museum Projects

The co-creation of historical research and co-development of visitor experience in China and the UK.

This multidisciplinary series of workshops will explore our understanding of space exploration in a cultural context.

Find out about this series of precious objects on loan from The Courtauld Gallery, and their scientific and technological histories.

For this project the Science Museum searched for people passionate about the technologies of music to collaboratively develop ideas for the museum’s collections.

This project explored the history of electronic music through the work of three British studios.

Two family historians tell the human stories behind some of the extraordinary objects in the Science Museum’s collections.

This project was an intermedial study of the public culture of science (1950-1970), comparing museum exhibitions and television programmes on similar themes.

This project aims to produce a new account of the roots and development of a scientific culture in 17th- and 18th-century London.

The Science Museum is a partner in a major collaborative research project known as HoNESt—an acronym for History of Nuclear Energy and Society—that launched on 1 September 2015.

An initiative that explores how people in the past used instruments, machines and equipment to achieve particular results.