Chemistry and Materials

Man in a laboratory, 1949

"Wanted: Beer tester for home of the future. Steel wedding dress and cardboard chair optional. Glass bridge and plastic car a must." Check out the wild and wacky ways that materials science and chemistry is turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Special Exhibitions

Plasticity: 100 years of making plastics

Imagine, invent, adapt; use, reuse, recycle. An exhibition exploring the first century of plastics.

 

Galleries

Challenge of Materials gallery

Explore the world of materials, from the leading edge of scientific innovation to new insights into everyday objects.

 

Events

The Rocket Show

From lift off to touch down.

 
Explainer with bubbles

This show features bubbles of all sizes going up, down, this way, that way, and all over the place… with a little help from the audience!