Key Stage 2: Forces and Motion

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

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.

 

The Ships gallery houses an unusually large and fine collection of models, including the first steam engine to power a vessel: William Symington's marine engine of 1788.

 

Trace the story of the space rocket. Find out how we are probing the rest of the Solar System and beyond. In this gallery you too will be exploring space.