Key Stage 1: Materials

Students in the Science Museum
 

Hands-on galleries

Launchpad - the Science Museum's most popular gallery. Explore science and technology first-hand with 50 hands-on exhibits and shows.

 

Object-rich galleries

Challenge of Materials gallery

Explore the world of materials, from the leading edge of scientific innovation to new insights into everyday objects.

 
Flight gallery

Share the dreams of the flight pioneers: see the development of aviation from its tentative beginnings to the modern era of mass air travel.

 
Exhibits in Making the Modern World

This unique, breathtaking gallery chronologically presents 150 of the most significant items from the Science Museum's collections from 1750 to 2000.

 

See the extraordinary range of labour-saving devices in this intriguing technological guide to the development of the modern home.