Science Museum

Science Museum axes slavery exhibits

23 January 2022 9:25 pm

An iconoclastic spirit has swept much of Britain’s institutions over the past two years. Just last month Mr S revealed that…

Is it art or science?

30 April 2016 9:00 am

William Henry Fox Talbot had many accomplishments. He was Liberal MP for Chippenham; at Cambridge he won a prize for…

Yuri Gagarin in the cabin of Vostok, the spacecraft in which he made the first human journey to outer space on 12 April, 1961

Stars in their eyes

26 September 2015 8:00 am

‘The dominant narrative of space,’ I was told, in that strange language curators employ, ‘is America.’ Quite so. Kennedy stared…

All the fun of the fair

1 February 2014 9:00 am

The Works on Paper annual fair runs from 6 to 9 February at the Science Museum. Its name is a…

Collision course

7 December 2013 9:00 am

I have a new party piece. I can explain, with a degree of clarity and precision, how the Hadron Collider…