See brass steam trains in the Science Museum
There's a dark room in the Science Museum that's filled with brass and steel models of early steam engines and locomotives.
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See brass steam trains in the Science Museum
There's a dark room in the Science Museum that's filled with brass and steel models of early steam engines and locomotives.
Stephen Hawking’s office coming to the Science Museum
The contents of Professor Stephen Hawking’s office when he worked in Cambridge are to go on display at the Science Museum.
Science Museum reopening with Climate Change exhibition
The Science Museum will reopen its doors following the lockdown with an exhibition that looks at how mankind could remove CO2 from the atmosphere to mitigate climate change.
The Science Museum is to become a Covid vaccination centre
The Science Museum in South Kensington is being drafted in to support science's fight against the Covid virus, as it's to become a mass vaccination hub for the local area.
See things never seen before at the Science Museum
Would you like to see something that no one (outside the Museum) has ever seen before?
The Science Museum’s new laser powered IMAX cinema
Some 20 years after the Science Museum opened its IMAX cinema, they've revamped it with the newest in projector technology.
Tickets Alert: Late night opening at the Science Museum
Tickets have been released for the Science Museum's adults-only late-night opening taking place on Wednesday 14th October.
Kensington’s big three museums announce their reopening dates
The big three - the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A Museum have all announced the dates they will reopen following the lockdown.
New medicine gallery opens at the Science Museum
A huge new exhibition - taking over two-thirds of an entire floor at the Science Museum has opened, all about the history of medicine.
The Science Museum’s “tube map” of the Solar System
Spotted this in the Science Museum the other day - a range of goods for sale with a map of the Solar System which will look very familiar to London Underground fans.
See a Mercury mission spacecraft in the Science Museum
Sitting near the back of the Science Museum is a full-size model of a spacecraft that's currently on a journey to Mercury.
London’s Science City at the Science Museum
There's a new gallery at the Science Museum that shows off an awful lot of wood, brass and books.
Rare watch goes on display in the Science Museum
An intricate British-made watch which sold in 2017 for £3.2 million has gone on display in the Science Museum for the next few years.
Driverless: Who is in control?
Self driving cars may seem like a modern invention, but they're much older than you might realise.
See spies and spooks at the Science Museum
A new exhibition that is less James Bond and more Q looks at the history of how British spies kept their secrets safe from enemies.
Tickets Alert: The Clangers on IMAX, introduced by Sir Michael Palin
The Science Museum is celebrating the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with a special screening of The Clangers - in its huge IMAX cinema.
Tickets Alert: Apollo 11 documentary with Q&A
Experience the Apollo 11 mission on one of the biggest cinema screens in Europe - the Science Museum's IMAX, followed by a Q&A with British astronaut Helen Sharman and legendary science broadcaster James Burke.
A celebration of chemistry in South Kensington
To celebrate 150 years of the Periodic Table of the Elements in 2019, there is to be a celebration of chemistry starting next month.
Tickets Alert: Vintage computer games at the Science Museum
This Easter, the Science Museum is again giving over an entire hall to vintage computer games.
Win tickets to an IMAX screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey
The Science Museum is offering IanVisits readers two pairs of tickets to their IMAX screenings of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey", to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Kubrick’s groundbreaking 1968 epic.
Sir Quentin Blake draws scientists for the Science Museum
A large room at the top of the Science Museum, normally filled with schoolchildren has also gained a huge new mural by the illustrator, Sir Quentin Blake.
The Sun blazes into the Science Museum’s new blockbuster exhibition
From ancient Bronze Age worship to spacecraft still to be launched, the Science Museum's newest blockbuster exhibition looks at the source of all life on earth... the Sun.
The last Tsar, the death of the Romanovs at the Science Museum
At a time when news about Russia is synonymous with assassination and murder, the Science Museum looks back 100 years to another dark and notorious assassination.
The Science Museum has a room full of old washing machines and televisions
In the basement of the Science Museum is a gallery that's all too easy to miss, and yet is full of domestic wonders.