Key Stage 4: Materials

Step into a whole new world and explore the science of our changing climate...

• Atmosphere: exploring climate science

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

• Challenge of Materials

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

• Flight

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

• Making the Modern World

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

• The Secret Life of the Home

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.

• Exploring Space

Imagine, invent, adapt; use, reuse, recycle. An exhibition exploring the first century of plastics.

• Plasticity - 100 years of making plastics