Events

A guided tour of the Challenge of Materials gallery.

 
Flights of fancy

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. 

 
Events with British Sign Language

Find out more about the exciting principles of science in these interactive, Explainer led Science Shows.

 
The Rocket Show

From lift off to touch down.

 

Confused by computers? Mixed up by maths? Come and meet Ada the number-crunching queen.

 
Actor playing Alexander Fleming

Come and meet Alexander Fleming, medicine man and hero in the fight against infection.

 
Amy Johnson drama character performing for a school group

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.

 
Actor playing Bob the Mechanic

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.

 
Actor playing Isambard Kingdon Brunel

Sir Isambard Kingdom Brunel at your service... Meet the famous British engineer who designed one of the finest ships, the Great Eastern.

 
Actor playing Albert Einstein

Join the one-and-only Albert Einstein for a mystery mind tour of the science behind time, space and the weighty issue of gravity.

 
Actor playing Gene Cernan in the Science Museum's Space Gallery

What would you like to ask Gene Cernan, the last man to step on the Moon in 1972?

 
Actor playing Isaac Newton

Meet everyone’s favourite scientist... and his skateboard!

 
Jones the Bones

Meet Jones the Bones the surgeon and his Skeleton sidekick.

 
Actor playing Bazalgette

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’

 
Mary Seacole drama character performing

Hear the story of brave nurse and heroine of the Crimean War Mary Seacole.

 
Michael Faraday

Come and meet Michael Faraday and let him tell you all about his cutting-edge electric experiments.

 
Water bottle

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.

 
Bogbean talking to children during 'Orchard Days'

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.

 
Pregnant man talking to family

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.

 
Thomas Crapper experiments with a bit of plumbing

Come along and discover the world of toilets and find out where your poo goes when you pull the chain with Thomas Crapper.

 
The Rocket Show

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.

 
Digital Citizen

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.

 
Centenary talk - Brain scan

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.

 
Force Field

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.