Galleries
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.
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.
The Marine Engineering display tells the story of the development of marine propulsion, from paddlewheels to boilers. You can even step onto a reconstruction of a ship's bridge.
See the extraordinary range of labour-saving devices in this intriguing technological guide to the development of the modern home.
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.