Events
A guided tour of the Challenge of Materials gallery.
Please fasten your seatbelt and prepare for take off!
A guided tour of our Making the Modern World gallery.
Shhhh... Can you keep a secret?
Roaring rockets, amazing astronauts and smelly space poo.
Find out more about the exciting principles of science in these interactive, Explainer led Science Shows.
From lift off to touch down.
Confused by computers? Mixed up by maths? Come and meet Ada the number-crunching queen.
Come and meet Alexander Fleming, medicine man and hero in the fight against infection.
In 1930 flying sensation Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Find out about her life and see the actual plane she used to make her epic flight.
Hold onto your hats and get ready for adventure as Bob the mechanic tells you his amazing cloud-busting tales of magnificent men and women and their flying machines.
Sir Isambard Kingdom Brunel at your service... Meet the famous British engineer who designed one of the finest ships, the Great Eastern.
Join the one-and-only Albert Einstein for a mystery mind tour of the science behind time, space and the weighty issue of gravity.
What would you like to ask Gene Cernan, the last man to step on the Moon in 1972?
Meet everyone’s favourite scientist... and his skateboard!
Can you imagine the terrible stink in the days when the River Thames was practically an open sewer?
Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic, is a hundred years old.
‘Pieces of the Sun’
Hear the story of brave nurse and heroine of the Crimean War Mary Seacole.
Come and meet Michael Faraday and let him tell you all about his cutting-edge electric experiments.
Encounter Nancy the Waterseller as she tells you her story of why she has to sell water to the people of London during the early 1900s.
Ha ha! No it’s not funny, it’s not a laughing matter! Allow Robert Liston to take you through his strange surgical journey.
A magical character, Bogbean, tells stories about materials and how scientists have taken inspiration from nature to create new materials.
Having learned to fly hanging from him home-made glider, Percy Piltcher is almost ready to add an engine. Discover the triumphs and dangers of flight with this great British pioneer.
Don’t try this at home! Come along and cook up some chemistry with Marie Curie, the amazing woman who discovered radium and radioactivity.
Now, thanks to advances in modern medicine, and the Science Museum, you can meet the world’s first pregnant man...
Join Spitfire pilot ‘Flaps’ Peters on the third floor and be taken back in time to hear about his life and times during the Battle of Britain.
Come along and discover the world of toilets and find out where your poo goes when you pull the chain with Thomas Crapper.
From lift off to touch down.
Roaring rockets, amazing astronauts and smelly space poo.
4000 years of science in one talk as Patricia Fara, distinguished historian and author, tackles the when, who and how of the history of science.
Come along to hear Professor Brian Cox reveal the building blocks of matter and our universe.
In a world increasingly dominated by the internet, what does the future hold for us all? Join Dame Wendy Hall to find out what it will mean to be a digital citizen in the future.
Join neuroscientist Professor Susan Greenfield as she reveals new insights on how your brain works, grows and changes throughout your life.
Find out how James Lovelock's early work on the Earth’s atmosphere helped change our views of human impact on the environment.
Discover how public shows of scientific experiments have captured the imagination of countless generations.
Feel the impact of a Saturn V rocket launch, take a trip on the lunar rover and discover the smell of space in our motion effects simulation theatre.