This exhibition is now closed. How do you develop a vaccine quickly and effectively to combat a global pandemic? This exhibition explored the worldwide effort to develop vaccines at pandemic speed, ...

Get a taste of the future at a free February Lates exploring all things food – and where it’s going. In this after-hours museum lates, you’ll get a chance to explore all our free galleries at night.

Celebrate 60 years of Star Trek and experience the complete cinematic legacy from the original voyages to the modern reboot on one of the biggest screens in the UK, in a world-first presentation ...

We hold human remains in the Science Museum Group Collection and display a small number in some of our galleries. These remains support research into and the public understanding of cultural and ...

Every donation to the Science Museum is gratefully received. Your generosity is vitally important to our continued success, benefiting the Museum and rewarding you in the process. Gift Aid is a UK ...

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 ...

The first significant UK exhibition to be presented on the subject of carbon capture and storage, Our Future Planet will open on 19 May 2021 when the Science Museum re-opens its doors and will remain ...

Discover the new out-of-this-world Jellycat Space Crew in our special themed Space shop. Meet the brilliant mind of the mission! With her passion for discovery and a love of all things stellar, she’s ...

Take a closer look at the Black Arrow rocket, and find out more about the future of space flight from Britain. On 28 October 1971, a British Black Arrow rocket launched the Prospero satellite into an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antibiotics were nothing short of miraculous when they were first mass produced in 1940s. Infections from surgery, childbirth, even scraping your knee went from killing millions every year, to being ...