Special Exhibitions

Visit the new free trail and learn amazing stories about our climate changing world.

• Climate Changing Stories

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

• Cosmos & Culture

Celebrating the centenary of X-ray crystallography, a technique developed by father-and-son team William H. Bragg and W. Lawrence Bragg in 1913.

• Hidden Structures – 100 Years of X-ray Crystallography

The new novel by author Tony White is premiering exclusively at the Science Museum.

• Shackleton’s Man Goes South

Electronic music is everywhere, from the television that we watch to the music we listen to in clubs and even the ringtones on our mobile phones.

• Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music

Pain Less, a new exhibition featured in the Antenna – Science News gallery, investigates the future of pain relief through personal stories, scientific discovery, objects, films and even games.

• Pain Less: the future of relief

Special exhibition celebrating the work and legacy of Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer of modern computing and Enigma codebreaker.

• Codebreaker – Alan Turing's life and legacy

An interactive gallery exploring how the web works and bringing the internet to life.

• Web Lab

In November 2013 an exhibition about the Large Hadron Collider will open at the Science Museum, transporting visitors to the one of the greatest scientific and engineering endeavours of our time at CERN in Geneva.

• Collider: step inside the world’s greatest experiment

See nearly 50 previously unseen works and 50 vintage prints by British photographer Tony Ray-Jones in the first exhibition in Media Space.

• Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr