Science Museum

Today we’re announcing a season of events inspired by our upcoming major exhibiton The Sun: Living With Our Star.
From talks to performances, concerts to family festivals, the Sun proves a constant source of inspiration for humanity.
Discover more about the Sun events season here: http://bit.ly/2AH1A5z
... Image: 8 Minutes by Alexander Whitley Dance Company, © Johan Persson
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Happy Birthday Alexander Fleming!
When Fleming's experiments developed 'mould juice', he noticed the mould destroyed bacteria. His work led to the creation of antibiotics.
In our exhibition Superbugs: The Fight For Our Lives we look at the research helping scientists develop new ways of fighting deadly infections.... Read more on the blog: http://bit.ly/2OL6HVl
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#OTD in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and made it publicly available.
Learn more about the history of the Internet in our Information Age gallery http://bit.ly/2ArbCaS
Image credit: NeXTcube computer used by Berners-Lee to design the World Wide Web, at CERN, 1990.

#OTD in 1930 American astronaut and aeronautical engineer Neil Armstrong was born.
In July 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 pilot Buzz Aldrin performed the first manned Moon landing. When he stepped onto the lunar surface he famously said ''That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.''
Image credit: Final Apollo 11 flight plan, signed by Armstrong and Aldrin. http://bit.ly/2Arr8Dz

Go deeper into the world’s most innovative movie-going experience at the Science Museum IMAX 3D theatre.
Enjoy heart-pounding audio and immersive 3D shots as you fly to the moon, swim under the sea or take a tour of deep space.
Discover what's on: http://bit.ly/2AruxlO

Escape the #heatwave this August at Antarctica Live, our free immersive festival inspired by the coldest place on Earth. Featuring dance workshops, family friendly sessions and polar researchers on hand, there's plenty of cool activities to take part to.
Find out more: http://bit.ly/2vfJUcd
... Image Ⓒ British Antarctic Survey
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Welcome all aspiring inventors!
Equinor, our proud sponsor of Wonderlab: The Equinor Gallery, presents the Young Imagineers competition 2018. We invite you to get involved and show us what you would create to make tomorrow's world a better place.
Find out how to enter here http://bit.ly/2Arkmhf
... Image: Finlay Minter, winner of Young Imagineers 2017.
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The development of the modern world has nearly broken our association between time and the Sun.
Explore humanity's ever-changing relationship with our nearest star in our upcoming major exhibition The Sun: Living With Our Star. http://bit.ly/2ArboQX

Happy #YorkshireDay!
We're taking some time today to celebrate all things Yorkshire... we may be slightly biased as the Science Museum Group has two wonderful museums based there!
Browse our collection for more Yorkshire goodness http://bit.ly/2AqP3mB

Uncover the surprising story behind this Jedi Helmet and how its use in medicine – and not Star Wars – helped save lives.
Go behind the scenes in our new #StoriesFromTheStores video series, and join our curators and YouTuber Tom Scott to discover incredible items from the Science Museum Group collection which are not usually on display.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more http://bit.ly/2AqZshZ

Ahead of the opening of our new exhibition The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution, associate curator Lottie Dodwell explores the extraordinary century-old investigation into the disappearance of the Romanovs.
http://bit.ly/2mI0c97

Based on our popular Space Descent VR with Tim Peake, we have opened Space Descent 360°, an immersive experience suitable for the whole family.
Book your tickets here http://bit.ly/2Ooylaf

Scientists have developed an AI that recognises wild animals in Tanzania. After 50,000 volunteers identified 3.2 million images, the AI has been trained to do the same.
For more From the Lab's check out our YouTube channel http://bit.ly/2mOwTlg

Excited we are!
We're launching a new video series next week which goes behind the scenes with our curators to uncover #StoriesFromTheStores. The first video may or may not be about Jedi Helmets...
To see the films before anyone else subscribe to our YouTube channel http://bit.ly/2mLQ5zR

The longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century is set to happen tonight.
Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and the Middle East should be able to see the blood Moon until tomorrow morning.
Curator Ali Boyle shares a short history of eclipses and a few favourite objects from our collection http://bit.ly/2zYL1BL
... Image credit: NASA
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Happy birthday James Lovelock!
Hear more about his life as an independent scientist as he joins Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, to discuss his career. http://bit.ly/2mF7lXn
Image credit: Bruno Comby of Association of Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 'miraculous' birth of Louise Brown. #IVF40
Tonight at Lates, we will be celebrating all things medical from the 70th anniversary of the NHS to the 50th anniversary of the first liver and heart transplants. Plus, you can take a closer look at our new exhibition IVF: 6 Million Babies Later.
http://bit.ly/2mDmNn7

Join us tomorrow for a Lates with a medical twist.
Celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the 50th anniversary of heart and liver transplants and the 40th anniversary of IVF.
Learn about how 3D printing is revolutionising the world of transplantation, get hands-on with the Royal College of Pathologists and test your knowledge in our NHS quiz.
... See the full programme here http://bit.ly/2mDhaW6
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This morning, ahead of her 40th birthday on 25 July, we were joined by the lovely Louise Brown as she toured our new exhibition IVF: 6 Million Babies Later.
This exhibition explores the remarkable story of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) from the opposition and immense challenges faced by early pioneers to the latest research today.
Learn more about the reproductive science revolution http://bit.ly/2zZjQXB

This water harvester developed by the University of California, Berkeley is powered by sunlight and doesn’t rely on electricity.
It creates fresh, drinkable water even in low humidity and may help supply clean drinking water in areas where water is scarce.
Explore more on our YouTube channel. http://bit.ly/2mtnOOy

Wonderful day out for the family. The latest Exhibition The WonderLAB is fantastic, with lots of fun ways for the kids to experience electricity, space and gravity. Well worth the visit.

Visited the Wonderlab with my 5 year old boy - what an epic afternoon. So much to see and interact with, fantastic work Science Museum 👌

My only suggestion would be more staff presence to provide advice/guidance on some of the apparatus to get the most out of the children’s experience.

I visited the Science museum with my son and his class for a school trip on Friday. In the afternoon we all watched a science show held by Fiona. Just wanted to say her experiments and Fiona herself were fantastic. She was hilarious ! Really made the trip for us and the kids. We all enjoyed the frog � especially ��� well done Fiona �

I took my 9 year old grandson yesterday. Booked tix for the Wonderlab and Imax online and was pleased to avoid the long Wonderlab queue. We spent about 2.5 hours in there, watched both the explosions and electricity shows (excellent) and the experiments at the periodic table. We only left because we needed to get to the imax film. Brilliant “explainers”. Hats off to them all. In all, a really good day out. My grandson loved it and learned a huge amount. Thank you

I love this place. I’ve been several times with my children and I usually book a ticketed event/exhibition- this helps with the problem of overcrowding and long queues.

The staff are always very polite and helpful. I recommend going either very early or later on in the afternoon as the lunchtime business can be hectic.

Wonderlab is definitely worth it.

Had an absolutely fantastic time. The children (6 and 3) thoroughly enjoyed it. Food was expensive and there were exhibits you had to pay for but we just went round all the free stuff and went out for lunch. It is so worth the visit. Can't wait to go back again soon.

Fantastic day out. Arrived mid morning during school holidays expecting to queue but went straight through with no problem. It was busy but spent half the day at Power Up, which was ticketed and very well managed, packed lunch in the picnic area, then afternoon in the Wonderlab. Not much of a queue after 3 and much more palatable than other times we've been. 7yr old and 10 Yr old utterly engrossed for 2 hours before being dragged out on the promise of something from the Shake Bar. Staff, without exception were approachable, fun and helpful. As mentioned by others you don't need to pay for the ticketed events - great as they are - the Science Museum standard collection is worth multiple visits.

Brilliant place - free to enter although the tills are manned and they ask for a £5 donation. Avoid level 3 unless you specifically want to do the space mission. Definitely take a picnic - several areas to have it and avoid the queues.

Brilliant good fun for everybody, plenty of space to walk round and a good cafe which you need when there’s so much to do and see

Amazing place

So much to see, such variety.

Spent 6 hours there and I still missed things I reckon !

Great day out 👍😁

I know it’s free to get in but you need to provide more interactive activities for free rather than charging for everything

Great place to go, sadly felt like their wasn’t as much exhibits as there was maybe when I went as a teenager 10 years ago.



Both my boys enjoyed it, very busy as you would naturally expect.



One thing I will mention... cleaners everywhere but twice on occasion. The toilets were horrid. No soap in any of the ones we went too, and smelt bad. Even mentioned this to the cleaner outside one as we came out, and she laughed at us! Went to NHM and were immaculate...



But a great 4 hours worth it with donation!

Excellent experience. To fully enjoy it you would have to a least spend a whole day there. The only downside was that some displays need a makeover (pages missing out of booklets etc). More investment is needed. There should be a compulsory charge for admission, not just voluntary, in order to help fund improvements.

Went with my Goddaughters Their mum and nan. Wonder lab was good but could be a little more organised with regards to taking part in things to do. some things had staff supervision other things did not so a lot of que jumping. Also we did the red arrows and Goddaughter and her mum did the 360 ride. We paid full price and had to then get a refund as the rides are cheaper if you had paid for tickets for Wonder lab. This was NOT made clear and staff should ask customers as this would save time. We did have a good day out and made a voluntary contribution but would be happy to pay for fast track as One Goddaughter has Autism and waiting in line was stressful at times and crowds can be a challenge although she did extremely well on the day.

Short queue even in Easter Hols, some exhibits sold out in advance, so check ahead of the day. It suffers from the usual museum problem of contending with other people’s lax parenting/sh*tty kids. The Wonderlab was full of fun, and even behind its paywall (£25ish for family of 4 - after I’d dropped a similar voluntary contribution on entry) it was plagued by kids using it as a playground or pushing in. The exhibits in the wonderlab were great and varied, but if you can time your visit outside of school hols and in the afternoon, I’m told you can miss most of the carnage. It felt more two-tier than other museums (NHM for example) as you have to walk past the paid extras to get to the more traditional museum exhibits - which were excellent in themselves.

It seems that as well as the £5 'donation' (they make you all file past till points so you really feel the pressure to donate, plus book etc- you'll have spent £15 before you even get in), more of the displays and interactive parts of the museum are ticketed. The free areas of the museum are looking pretty tired and unfortunately most of the touchscreen quizzes were broken, as well as moving parts of puzzles. My 7 year old was pretty disappointed that she couldn't get anything to work. Luckily she loved the planes and engines. Considering how much everything costs and how little you can actually see without buying tickets, I was surprised by how run down it's become. Won't return.

I was expecting big things and unfortunately wasn’t overly impressed it needs some modernising and making more interactive - there were some things you could touch and play on but most were broken or not working properly and looking very dated. It was nice to look around but I’m glad we hadn’t queued to get in or I’d have been disappointed.

Unimpressed that the cafe on the 2nd floor closes two hours before the museum shuts. Cafe staff saw us standing there for a good few minutes before telling us that it was closed. Yes, the cafe on the ground floor was open but as we were going from one 2nd floor exhibition to another, trailing downstairs and then back up wasn't an option.

Unfortunately, this iconic London attraction is now just a bit crap - unless you are prepared to shell-out ££££ for the "attractions".

I visited with 3 potentially inspire-able pre-teens and left with 3 bored kids. 2 of them were "done" in 35 mins!

Allocate as much space and effort to your interactive, informative, educational and inspirational exhibits as you do your cafes, shops and chargeable events and we'll come again......

It's is really sad to see this resource dying.



PS. Easter holidays: no queues for Science Museum, 45min queue for Natural History Museum next door. WAKE UP!!!

Wonderful day out for the family. The latest Exhibition The WonderLAB is fantastic, with lots of fun ways for the kids to experience electricity, space and gravity. Well worth the visit.

Visited the Wonderlab with my 5 year old boy - what an epic afternoon. So much to see and interact with, fantastic work Science Museum 👌

My only suggestion would be more staff presence to provide advice/guidance on some of the apparatus to get the most out of the children’s experience.

I visited the Science museum with my son and his class for a school trip on Friday. In the afternoon we all watched a science show held by Fiona. Just wanted to say her experiments and Fiona herself were fantastic. She was hilarious ! Really made the trip for us and the kids. We all enjoyed the frog � especially ��� well done Fiona �

I took my 9 year old grandson yesterday. Booked tix for the Wonderlab and Imax online and was pleased to avoid the long Wonderlab queue. We spent about 2.5 hours in there, watched both the explosions and electricity shows (excellent) and the experiments at the periodic table. We only left because we needed to get to the imax film. Brilliant “explainers”. Hats off to them all. In all, a really good day out. My grandson loved it and learned a huge amount. Thank you

I love this place. I’ve been several times with my children and I usually book a ticketed event/exhibition- this helps with the problem of overcrowding and long queues.

The staff are always very polite and helpful. I recommend going either very early or later on in the afternoon as the lunchtime business can be hectic.

Wonderlab is definitely worth it.

Had an absolutely fantastic time. The children (6 and 3) thoroughly enjoyed it. Food was expensive and there were exhibits you had to pay for but we just went round all the free stuff and went out for lunch. It is so worth the visit. Can't wait to go back again soon.

Fantastic day out. Arrived mid morning during school holidays expecting to queue but went straight through with no problem. It was busy but spent half the day at Power Up, which was ticketed and very well managed, packed lunch in the picnic area, then afternoon in the Wonderlab. Not much of a queue after 3 and much more palatable than other times we've been. 7yr old and 10 Yr old utterly engrossed for 2 hours before being dragged out on the promise of something from the Shake Bar. Staff, without exception were approachable, fun and helpful. As mentioned by others you don't need to pay for the ticketed events - great as they are - the Science Museum standard collection is worth multiple visits.

Brilliant place - free to enter although the tills are manned and they ask for a £5 donation. Avoid level 3 unless you specifically want to do the space mission. Definitely take a picnic - several areas to have it and avoid the queues.

Brilliant good fun for everybody, plenty of space to walk round and a good cafe which you need when there’s so much to do and see

Amazing place

So much to see, such variety.

Spent 6 hours there and I still missed things I reckon !

Great day out 👍😁

I know it’s free to get in but you need to provide more interactive activities for free rather than charging for everything

Great place to go, sadly felt like their wasn’t as much exhibits as there was maybe when I went as a teenager 10 years ago.



Both my boys enjoyed it, very busy as you would naturally expect.



One thing I will mention... cleaners everywhere but twice on occasion. The toilets were horrid. No soap in any of the ones we went too, and smelt bad. Even mentioned this to the cleaner outside one as we came out, and she laughed at us! Went to NHM and were immaculate...



But a great 4 hours worth it with donation!

Excellent experience. To fully enjoy it you would have to a least spend a whole day there. The only downside was that some displays need a makeover (pages missing out of booklets etc). More investment is needed. There should be a compulsory charge for admission, not just voluntary, in order to help fund improvements.

Went with my Goddaughters Their mum and nan. Wonder lab was good but could be a little more organised with regards to taking part in things to do. some things had staff supervision other things did not so a lot of que jumping. Also we did the red arrows and Goddaughter and her mum did the 360 ride. We paid full price and had to then get a refund as the rides are cheaper if you had paid for tickets for Wonder lab. This was NOT made clear and staff should ask customers as this would save time. We did have a good day out and made a voluntary contribution but would be happy to pay for fast track as One Goddaughter has Autism and waiting in line was stressful at times and crowds can be a challenge although she did extremely well on the day.

Short queue even in Easter Hols, some exhibits sold out in advance, so check ahead of the day. It suffers from the usual museum problem of contending with other people’s lax parenting/sh*tty kids. The Wonderlab was full of fun, and even behind its paywall (£25ish for family of 4 - after I’d dropped a similar voluntary contribution on entry) it was plagued by kids using it as a playground or pushing in. The exhibits in the wonderlab were great and varied, but if you can time your visit outside of school hols and in the afternoon, I’m told you can miss most of the carnage. It felt more two-tier than other museums (NHM for example) as you have to walk past the paid extras to get to the more traditional museum exhibits - which were excellent in themselves.

It seems that as well as the £5 'donation' (they make you all file past till points so you really feel the pressure to donate, plus book etc- you'll have spent £15 before you even get in), more of the displays and interactive parts of the museum are ticketed. The free areas of the museum are looking pretty tired and unfortunately most of the touchscreen quizzes were broken, as well as moving parts of puzzles. My 7 year old was pretty disappointed that she couldn't get anything to work. Luckily she loved the planes and engines. Considering how much everything costs and how little you can actually see without buying tickets, I was surprised by how run down it's become. Won't return.

I was expecting big things and unfortunately wasn’t overly impressed it needs some modernising and making more interactive - there were some things you could touch and play on but most were broken or not working properly and looking very dated. It was nice to look around but I’m glad we hadn’t queued to get in or I’d have been disappointed.

Unimpressed that the cafe on the 2nd floor closes two hours before the museum shuts. Cafe staff saw us standing there for a good few minutes before telling us that it was closed. Yes, the cafe on the ground floor was open but as we were going from one 2nd floor exhibition to another, trailing downstairs and then back up wasn't an option.

Unfortunately, this iconic London attraction is now just a bit crap - unless you are prepared to shell-out ££££ for the "attractions".

I visited with 3 potentially inspire-able pre-teens and left with 3 bored kids. 2 of them were "done" in 35 mins!

Allocate as much space and effort to your interactive, informative, educational and inspirational exhibits as you do your cafes, shops and chargeable events and we'll come again......

It's is really sad to see this resource dying.



PS. Easter holidays: no queues for Science Museum, 45min queue for Natural History Museum next door. WAKE UP!!!