Key Stage 3: How Science Works
Object-rich galleries
Step into a whole new world and explore the science of our changing climate...
Watch the video on Babbage's ingenious machine, or learn about the mathematical instruments used before the invention of computers.
The ingenious use of steam to generate power helped Britain become the world’s first industrial nation.
Unravel the connection between apricot tins and kidney machines,in this provocative exhibition on developments in twentieth century medicine.
Decide whether new technological developments - such as space tourism to male pregnancy - should or should not go ahead.
The Mathematics Gallery exhibits mathematical instruments and models from the seventeenth century to present day.
This history of the telegraph, telephone and radio is illustrated with many original objects and hands-on displays.
What makes you, you? Who am I? investigates everyone’s favourite subject – themselves.
Special exhibitions
Artist Matthew Luck Galpin uses his blacksmithing skills to rework meteorites by heating, hammering, grinding and polishing them into mirrors, his ‘Anvilled Stars.’
How long does a minute feel like? Do some minutes feel longer than others?
Explore how astronomy has changed the way we see our universe - and ourselves - through this object-rich exhibition.
What happens when you take an object from one museum and ask experts from another to write its story? First Time Out, a new series of exhibits, is putting hidden treasures from five London museums on display for the first time.
This December, 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen to agree a global action plan for tackling climate change. Explore the evidence that human activity is behind climate change and decide whether you support a strong, fair deal at Copenhagen.
Explore the workings of the unconscious mind through a range of modern and historical objects and contemporary artworks.
HEXEN 2.0 is an exhibition of large-scale drawings or ‘diagrams’ and a set of re-imagined Tarot cards, which chart the coming together of diverse scientific and social sciences.
