A major new, free gallery looking at how engineers change the world will open at the Science Museum on Friday 23 June 2023—find out more about group visits.
Engineer Your Future presents a series of interactive experiences based on key engineering skills used by real-life engineers. After visiting this interactive gallery, we hope that your group will develop the sense that engineering is something they might be able to do themselves.
Research has shown that most young people believe science qualifications only lead to a narrow range of jobs such as scientist or doctor. This gallery positions skills-based games and films with examples of real engineers whose exciting careers will affect all our lives. We believe this can widen young peoples’ perception of individuals who use science in their work and expose them to a range of STEM employers.
What can your group do in the gallery?
- Play Rugged Rovers: design a space rover that will travel the furthest across a challenging alien landscape full of jumps, boulders and slopes. Can they problem-solve and beat their friends’ creations?
- Test the brain’s ability to think about the big picture: play a game to build and test systems inspired by some seriously complex engineering, from electrical grids to rail networks and baggage handling systems.
- Watch our short We Engineer film to find out how engineers make the best even better at some of the country’s most hi-tech test labs.
- See cutting-edge engineering test models on display.
- Play FutureVille to explore a city of the not-too-distant future and meet the women and men who engineer in places you wouldn’t expect, from hospitals to Hollywood.
Gallery Resource Pack
Download the Engineer Your Future teachers’ resource pack (PDF) for more information about how to use the gallery with students and classroom activities to help students find out about the skills used by engineers and careers in engineering.
This gallery is open access and you can explore at any time during your visit. We do not allocate specific time slots so you can fit it around other activities that you may have booked.
This page is for educational groups; for general visitor information, please see the main gallery page.