Key Stage 3: Electricity and Magnetism
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
Watch the video on Babbage's ingenious machine, or learn about the mathematical instruments used before the invention of computers.
This history of the telegraph, telephone and radio is illustrated with many original objects and hands-on displays.
Marvel at the elegance and ingenuity of timekeeping instruments in this rich collection of more than 500 timepieces.
Special exhibitions
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.
Ten Climate Stories takes a long view of our climate changing world – where all is not what it seems.