Current Projects

This ambitious project will transform public access to our historic items, enabling you to explore more of our national collection than ever before.

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.

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.

This project explores the meaning and use of the category ‘applied science’ from its emergence to its fading at the end of the Cold War.

The Science Museum Group is a partner in a consortium to develop and test new audience experiences using cutting edge mixed reality technology.

The Science Museum Group Digital Lab explores how museums can fulfil their missions in the digital age.