Projects

The work of the Science Museum’s first Composer in Residence, Jean-Philippe Calvin.

The Science Museum was 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.

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 collaborative project used the concept of science capital to understand how young people from all backgrounds engage with science.

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

This research network explored the potential for museums of science and technology to produce new kinds of historical exhibitions and events.

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

The Science Museum outreach team worked with other UK museums and science centres to deliver a series of workshops to Year 9 students.

This project developed training and resources for teachers to promote classroom discussion around contemporary science.

This project delivered science shows at schools across the UK following the reopening of Launchpad at the Science Museum.

As part of our goals to expand our work in and with China and to explore opportunities to work with our collections in new ways, Selena Yuan and Jing Zhu undertook a five-month curatorial research residency at the Science Museum, studying the museum's collections and researching narratives for an exhibition on China.

This project aimed to inspire students to explore the science that shapes their lives and help build their scientific literacy.

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.

Investigating the conceptualisation of the telephone in literature from 1876 to the present day.

This collaboration between the Science Museum and The Courtauld shed light on rarely seen artworks from the Courtauld collection.