Galleries
Step into a whole new world and explore the science of our changing climate...
Feel the impact of a Saturn V rocket launch, ride the lunar rover and discover the smell of space.
Learn how mechanical power replaced animal power in this history of farming.
Explore the world of materials, from the leading edge of scientific innovation to new insights into everyday objects.
Watch the video on Babbage's ingenious machine, or learn about the mathematical instruments used before the invention of computers.
Imagine what it was like to be a diver in this exhibition of diving suits and apparatus up to the 1960s. Part of the Ships and Marine Engineering galleries, Docks and Diving also includes eighteenth to twentieth century dockyard models.
Will your ideas today change the world tomorrow? Discover the importance of energy in this fascinating gallery.
The ingenious use of steam to generate power helped Britain become the world’s first industrial nation.
Share the dreams of the flight pioneers: see the development of aviation from its tentative beginnings to the modern era of mass air travel.
Have you ever watched the Red Arrows and been itching to get you hand on the controls?
Find out how it felt to be a doctor or patient at different times in history, or in different cultures.
Decide whether new technological developments - such as space tourism to male pregnancy - should or should not go ahead.
Launchpad - the Science Museum's most popular gallery. Explore science and technology first-hand with 50 hands-on exhibits and shows.
This unique, breathtaking gallery chronologically presents 150 of the most significant items from the Science Museum's collections from 1750 to 2000.
The Mathematics Gallery exhibits mathematical instruments and models from the seventeenth century to present day.
Fly in the cockpit of a Red Arrows jet in our 3D flight simulation theatre.
See more than 5000 objects from around the world illustrating the history of medicine in western and non-western cultures.
See the extraordinary range of labour-saving devices in this intriguing technological guide to the development of the modern home.
The Ships gallery houses an unusually large and fine collection of models, including the first steam engine to power a vessel: William Symington's marine engine of 1788.
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.
This history of the telegraph, telephone and radio is illustrated with many original objects and hands-on displays.
Marvel at the elegance and ingenuity of timekeeping instruments in this rich collection of more than 500 timepieces.
The ingenious use of steam to generate power helped Britain become the world’s first industrial nation. The steam engines in this gallery range from the earliest type used to the turbines that still generate power today.
Step inside James Watt’s extraordinary workshop to discover more about the first hero of Britain’s Industrial Revolution.
What makes you, you? Who am I? investigates everyone’s favourite subject – themselves.