Collection management
Collecting COVID-19
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Science Museum Group’s curators are researching stories and identifying objects to collect on the nation’s behalf.
The Science Museum Group’s work covers many different aspects, from conservation and curation to research and an extensive Learning programme.
Below you can find a selection of our work:
Research, Digital
Heritage Connector: Transforming text into data to extract meaning and make connections
The project will explore a range of data analysis approaches that will analyse catalogues, published material and knowledge graphs and build links
Public engagement
Revealing the Science Museum Group Collection
This ambitious project will transform public access to our historic items, enabling you to explore more of our national collection than ever before.
Research
Time, Culture and Identity
The co-creation of historical research and co-development of visitor experience in China and the UK.
Public engagement
Tim Peake’s Spacecraft Tour
On its 20-month tour of the UK, over 1.3 million people visited the Soyuz spacecraft which brought Tim Peake safely back to Earth.
This multidisciplinary series of workshops will explore our understanding of space exploration in a cultural context.
Public engagement
Illuminating Objects
Find out about this series of precious objects on loan from The Courtauld Gallery, and their scientific and technological histories.
Public engagement, Research
Museums of the New Age
Stimulated by the Science Museum Group’s collections of cinema technology, Jean-Philippe Calvin, created a new soundtrack for the 1927 silent film ‘Museums of the New Age’.
Research
Metropolitan Science
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.