Key Stage 4: How Science Works
Object-rich galleries
Step into a whole new world and explore the science of our changing climate...
The Antenna gallery brings you science news from every angle – from headline grabbing gadgets to hot topics.
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.
Decide whether new technological developments - such as space tourism to male pregnancy - should or should not go ahead.
This unique, breathtaking gallery chronologically presents 150 of the most significant items from the Science Museum's collections from 1750 to 2000.
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.’
Our latest in-depth exhibition asks which technologies might be best at tackling climate change. Discover how to make sense of all the solutions being offered, cut through the debates and explore one controversial suggestion – biofuels – in more detail.
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.
Imagine, invent, adapt; use, reuse, recycle. An exhibition exploring the first century of plastics.
