Events
Meet Jones the Bones the surgeon and his Skeleton sidekick.
Quiz Sir Isaac Newton about how an apple changed the world and how his scientific discoveries - from gravity to light - have changed our lives.
Can you see yourself see? Why do some words sound pointy? Why do you trust some faces more than others? Ever wondered what scientists do all day in a lab?
Roaring rockets, amazing astronauts and smelly space poo.
Come and get a 3D picture of your face taken by doctors from Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Ileana Chinnici, Research Fellow, Science Museum
Put yourself in their shells. Sign up for a Cockroach Tour of the Science Museum and get a quirky and inquisitive take on the human race.
Find out about living and working in space with our costumed character portraying Gene Cernan, NASA astronaut and last man on the Moon.
Please fasten your seatbelt and prepare for take off! On this interactive tour you will discover some of the secrets of our Flight gallery.
Hear about the life and achievements of esteemed inventor and engineer James Watt from our actress portraying Mary Anne Galton, friend of Watt’s daughter.
Join us on this free tour to find out about the Space Race from the Soviet perspective.
Make your own rockets and much more in this hands-on workshop.
A guided tour of our Making the Modern World gallery.
Simon Ings, novelist and science writer. Author of The Eye: A natural history
Our costumed character portraying a wacky doctor explores the wonders of the human body with the help of his sidekick, Jones the Bones.
Use your smartphone to solve puzzles, snap pictures and collect points. Just download the free SCVNGR app.
Find out more about the exciting principles of science in these interactive, Explainer led Science Shows.
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.
Find out more about the exciting principles of science in these interactive, Explainer-led demonstrations. Find out more about the world of Sound, Light, Bubbles or Materials.
Discover the history of Flight in this free tour. From mankind's earliest dreams of flight, through the Wright brothers to the jumbo jet.
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.
Hear the story of Yuri Gagarin, the first human into space.
Now, thanks to advances in modern medicine, and the Science Museum, you can meet the world’s first pregnant man...
3, 2, 1 blast off!
Come and meet Michael Faraday and let him tell you all about his cutting-edge electric experiments.