Post 16: Physics

Students in the Who am I gallery
 

Object-rich galleries

atmosphere gallery

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

 
Antenna Science News Now

The Antenna gallery brings you science news from every angle – from headline grabbing gadgets to hot topics.

 
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.

 

Special exhibitions

Meteoritic Mirror

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.

 
Cosmos and Culture

Explore how astronomy has changed the way we see our universe - and ourselves - through this object-rich exhibition.

 
Fast Forward

Explore the wonders of Formula 1™ technology

 
Water Wars
As the world’s population explodes, we have to ask… do we fight for fresh water now or wait for a global food crisis?