Projects

The Science Museum Group’s work covers many different aspects, from conservation and curation to research and an extensive Learning programme.

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Empowering Safety: Hazardous Material Awareness, Identification & Management

This project will empower the heritage sector by raising awareness, building skills, and providing practical tools to identify and safely manage hazardous materials within collections.  

Time Loops

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

Communicating Time and Culture

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).

Museums and Industry: Long Histories of Collaboration

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

Digital Humanities and Science Museum Group: A Landscape Study

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.

The Congruence Engine: Digital tools for new collections based industrial histories

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.

Sustainable Food: public attitudes and engagement in the UK, Brazil and India

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 Media of Mediumship

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

Communities and Crowds

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.

#Sonic Friday

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

Heritage Connector

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

Culture-space: towards a better understanding of space exploration rationale

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

Audience of the Future: Robots augmented reality app

How can the Science Museum Group support the development and testing of new audience experiences using augmented reality app technology?

Time, Culture and Identity

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

Communicating Material Cultures of Energy: Five Challenges for Energy Communication

How best to communicate energy-related information?

Bradford's National Museum

The Bradford's National Museum research project is part of the reinvention of the National Science and Media Museum.

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