From 6 February 2026, visitors can discover the unparalleled biodiversity of the Pantanal, a South American wetland which faces an unprecedented threat from fire, in a free photography exhibition at ...

Explore our collection, complete brain-teasing puzzles or learn about science with our range of science games and apps. We've had to retire some of our older games as ...

Before antibiotics, a relatively minor infection could prove incurable or even deadly. Everything from paper cuts to childbirth had the potential to kill through bacterial infection. The accidental ...

Jackson, one of the UK’s leading experts in human spaceflight, will play a key role in the museum’s space-related public engagement activities while supporting the museum’s curators to acquire new ...

The creation of three impressive new galleries will reimagine the Science Museum’s ground floor, taking a bold approach to telling stories of the science of today, the history of invention, and the ...

Today the Science Museum announced a landmark new gallery examining how the world can undergo the fastest energy transition in history to curb climate change. The announcement was made as delegates ...

Celebrated and criticised, engineered and abandoned, roads have profoundly shaped our landscape, economy and personal mobility. Since the Romans introduced the first programme of planned road-building ...

Today the Science Museum announced an unprecedented eight-figure donation from the Serum Institute of India, led by CEO Adar Poonawalla. Serum Institute of India is the world’s largest vaccine ...

The process to transform a designer’s drawing of characters (letters of the alphabet, numbers, punctuation, symbols) into a new Monotype typeface involved eighty-two successive operations. This story ...

Powerful permanent magnets can play a crucial role in modern technology but magnets have fascinated people and had many uses throughout history. Dan Reardon is an Australian astrophysicist: he ...

A personal statement by the Science Museum Group Director, Sir Ian Blatchford: ‘In response to the suffering of the people of Ukraine during the Russian invasion, I have taken the personal decision to ...

A million people have now visited Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery, a free gallery which examines the rapid energy transition and decarbonisation needed to limit climate change. In ...