Celebrating more than 200 years of innovation in information and communication technologies. Re-live remarkable moments in history, told through the eyes of those who invented, operated or were affected by the new wave of technology, from the first BBC radio broadcast in 1922 to the dawn of digital TV. Discover how wireless technology saved many lives on the Titanic and spread news of the disaster to the world within hours. You can also hear the personal stories of the operators who worked on the Enfield Telephone Exchange, the last manual telephone switchboard. Planning a school visit? Find out more information about the gallery for educational groups.

Pattern Pod is an amazing multi-sensory area for children under nine years old—and their parents and carers—where they can learn through play to develop their science skills. Like scientists, children explore the world by trying to make predictions about events happening around them. It’s often easier to make these predictions if these events repeat themselves or if there is a pattern to them. In Pattern Pod, children can explore water ripples without getting their feet wet, create symmetrical images on touch screens, follow robot trails and much more. Fun, interactive exhibits encourage them to recognise and copy patterns—or create entirely new ones of their own. Visit Pattern Pod on the ground floor of the museum for non-stop fun! Planning a school visit? Find out more information about the gallery for educational groups.

Trace the remarkable story of steam and how it shaped the world we live in today. Steam has been the driving force behind British industry for 300 years. Without it, the Industrial Revolution could never have happened. Even now, steam provides 75% of the electricity we use every day. Discover an unparalleled collection of historic full-size engines and models. Displays include:The oldest surviving and unaltered atmospheric engineRotative engines built by James WattHigh-pressure engines of the type pioneered by Richard TrevithickA steam turbine designed and built by Charles Parsons Planning a school visit? Find out more information about the gallery for educational groups.

What makes you smarter than a chimp? What makes you smile? What makes you, you? Who Am I? invites you to explore the science of who you are through intriguing objects, provocative artworks and hands-on exhibits. Investigate some of the characteristics that make humans such a successful species, such as personality, intelligence and language. Reflect on the big questions that new techniques in science are raising, and explore how your genetics and brain combine to create your unique identity. Planning a school visit? Find more information about Who Am I? for educational groups.

Hold history in your hands with objects from the Science Museum’s collection. Discover captivating stories and get hands on with our Medicine, Information Age, and Clockmakers handling collections with the help of expert volunteers. From morse code to the world wide web, from saints to stethoscopes, from clock components to historic timekeeping, find out how these intriguing objects have transformed our world. Please speak to our volunteer team at the handling desk if you require audio description of any of our objects.

Discover how London grew from a lively capital city to a global hub for trade, commerce, and scientific enquiry between 1550 and 1800. In 1550, London was a hustling, bustling, rapidly expanding commercial city, with a relatively modest position on the world stage. By 1800, it was a global city and a world-leading centre of science. Science City: The Linbury Gallery tells the story of how science was integral to that transformation. From the observation of previously unidentified planets to the identification of underlying physical principles of the universe, science itself changed, as it began to acquire characteristics that we associate with modern science today—from the carrying out of experiments to the preoccupation with precision measurement. Drawing on three iconic scientific collections: the Science Museum Group Collection ; the King George III collection owned by King’s College London ; and the collection of the Royal Society , this gallery reveals how science was London’s lifeblood, but more than this, it emphasises that science was at the heart of our culture. Covering over 650 square metres, the gallery design by Gitta Gschwendtner creates an abstract cityscape that will immerse you in a contemporary interpretation of historic London. Planning a school visit? Find out more information about the gallery for educational groups.

Featuring three thousand objects and covering an area equivalent to 1,500 hospital beds, Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries is the magnificent new home for the most significant medical collections in the world. Showcasing extraordinary medical artefacts from the collections of Henry Wellcome and the Science Museum Group, including the world’s first MRI scanner, Fleming’s penicillin mould, a professional pianist’s prosthetic arm and even robotic surgery equipment, the galleries explore our relationship with medicine and health through more than 500 years of history. Throughout the galleries you’ll find specially commissioned artworks, including 'Self-Conscious Gene', by Marc Quinn, a bronze sculpture by Eleanor Crook, a series of portraits by award-winning photographer Siân Davey and an installation by Studio Roso, as well as interactive displays, films and audio recordings. A ceramic artwork by celebrated artist Grayson Perry, ‘Alan Measles – God in the time of Covid-19’, is now part of the COVID-19 display in the gallery. This artwork along with the COVID-19 testing kits and signage from the Government’s daily briefings present a reminder of our huge national effort to save lives and protect the NHS.

Step into an interactive world of careers and take a peek behind the scenes in our brand new gallery. Try hands on exhibits that bring to life a wide variety of workplaces, from a blockbuster film set to a pharmaceutical lab, allowing you to experience the hidden yet vital careers of technicians.

Discover how the world can generate and use energy more sustainably to limit climate change in our free gallery. Looking at the past, present and future of energy systems, Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery features recognisable and surprising objects plus interactive exhibits to highlight how we can journey to a more sustainable world—and our role in achieving that low carbon future. See a pioneering electric taxi that’s 100 years old, challenge yourself to balance electricity supply and demand in one of our interactive games, and marvel at a vast seven metre tidal turbine blade, which helped generate enough electricity to power a thousand homes. This free gallery contains three sections, each exploring this century’s defining challenge in a different way:Future Planet explores the climate change we are already experiencing and how scientists use complex computer models to glimpse the climate futures we could face, depending on the decisions we make today.Future Energy focuses on the technologies—and the people behind them—that are reimagining how energy is supplied and used today, as well as showcasing artefacts that have led the way in the energy transition away from fossil fuels.Our Future looks forward to an inspiring new world that is being imagined, with children’s creative ideas of how the world will meet its future energy needs showcased through a hands-on, interactive table. Find out more about the Science Museum Group's approach to sustainability .

Discover the world’s oldest clock and watch collection in its new home at the Science Museum. The collection includes more than 600 watches, 90 clocks, 30 marine chronometers and a number of fine sundials and examples of hand engraving, mapping the history of innovation in watch and clock making in London from 1600 to the present day. Assembled by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and once located in the Guildhall, this remarkable array of timepieces traces the story of the capital’s clockmakers—from their first marine chronometers and mechanical clocks through the evolution of the wristwatch. John Harrison was the inventor of the marine chronometer. Among the collection’s highlights is the fifth chronometer he made, which he completed in 1770, and a four-month duration longcase clock by the father of English watchmaking, Thomas Tompion. An intricate British-made watch, the Space Traveller II, is now on display. Watchmaker George Daniels made almost every part of this watch by hand in the early 1980s.

Explore our fascinating gallery that celebrates engineers and how they shape the world we live in. Human stories are at the heart of the Engineers gallery, where visitors can take a closer look at iconic objects such as the first digital camera, the cutting-edge CMR ‘Versius’ surgical robot arm and a miniature atomic clock that the entire GPS system depended upon, as well as learn more about the remarkable people who invented them. These stories sit within four distinct sections:Bodies looks at how controlled drug delivery and surgical robots place people and their bodies at the heart of precision engineering practice. In Lives​, LED lighting and digital imaging sensors​ illustrate how engineers’ powers of visualisation shape technology to new and successful outcomes. In Connections​, GPS, internet and web technologies show engineering as a connected practice, with diverse teams enabling the connections humanity depends upon.Creating​ looks at how engineers are are imaginative people. Their creativity is central to developing amazing innovations which can change the world. Visitors can also see the Virtual Heart display, a large-scale virtual simulation created by bioengineer Dr Jazmín Aguado Sierra using scans of her own heart. The virtual heart, located in the Bodies section, functions just like her real heart and shows the intricate interactions between electrical impulses, muscle contraction and blood flow. The gallery celebrates our engineering heritage and showcase innovations through the global lens of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering—the world’s leading award for engineers— with current and past prize winners featured throughout.

From mankind's earliest dreams of flight to the wide-body aeroplanes of today, discover the absorbing story of flight. Overhead walkways allow you to get up close to aeroplanes suspended in the air. Examine exhibits from the pioneer days of aviation, including the world's most authentic Antoinette monoplane (1909), Amy Johnson's Gipsy Moth and the Vickers Vimy, which first crossed the Atlantic in 1919. Other extraordinary exhibits include: Supermarine S6B racing seaplane Hawker P1127, which led to the Harrier jump-jet fighter A complete slice of a genuine Boeing 747 jumbo jet Visit the Flight gallery to trace remarkable achievements in the history of aviation. Planning a school visit? Find out more information about the gallery for educational groups.

Chart 250 years of science and technology and discover some of the most iconic items that have shaped our society. The Making the Modern World gallery presents some of the Museum’s most remarkable objects. Come face-to-face with the Apollo 10 command module, Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 1, Crick and Watson’s DNA model and the first Apple computer. You’ll also find thought-provoking objects such as penicillin from Fleming’s laboratory, a porcelain bowl salvaged from Hiroshima and a clock that will tell the time for the next 10,000 years. Visit this exceptional gallery to follow the cultural history of industrialisation from 1750 to the present day. Planning a school visit? Find out more information about the gallery for educational groups.

How has mathematics shaped our world? Our bold and thought-provoking gallery, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, examines the fundamental role mathematicians, their tools and ideas have played in building the world we live in. From war and peace to life, death, money, trade and beauty, the objects in Mathematics: The Winton Gallery reveal how mathematics connects to every aspect of our lives. Planning a school visit? Find out more information about the gallery for educational groups.

Experimental rock duo The Garden bring their chaotic energy and genre-defying sound to Southampton for their only UK headline show. Known for their fearless blend of punk, electronic, and avant-garde influences, the Californian twins deliver an unpredictable live experience thats as theatrical as it is raw.

160 consoles. Five decades. Game on! Immerse yourself in our hands-on gaming experience, featuring the very best video games and consoles from the past 50 years. From Pong to Pacman and Minecraft to Mario, there’s something for everyone, whether you’re a retro games fan, a serious gamer or just want to beat your family at Mario Kart. Compete and connect with friends and family in multiplayer showdowns, rediscover your childhood favourites and test out some of the latest next-gen virtual reality experiences in this ultimate interactive gaming experience. We have games with age ratings up to 12 and one multiplayer game that carries a 16.This is the booking page for Power Up at the Science Museum in London. For Power Up at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester and at the Science and Media Museum in Bradford please visit their booking pages.

Unleash your inner scientist in Wonderlab. This unmissable interactive gallery is perfect for curious minds aged 7-14 to experiment and play with 50 eye-opening exhibits that help them feel like real scientists. They’ll explore the science behind everyday life to imagine the world around them in new and exciting ways. Our wonderful team of Explainers are always on hand to answer questions and show you how things work. They also lead explosive live science shows and unforgettable demonstrations throughout the day which are all included with your ticket. These shows run regularly so keep an eye out for the schedule when you're in the gallery. Wonderlab is also a favourite with school groups, Brownies and other informal education groups. Head over to our Wonderlab Groups page and book an engaging science experience for your class today.

When scientists get involved in the food we eat, it's often viewed as something to steer well clear of, with scary headlines about 'Frankenfoods' surrounding genetically modified ingredients or e-numbers in our sweets. But what if science is the only way of putting food on our plates in decades to come? This new free exhibition at the Science Museum looks at fascinating projects like Norway's ice-cold seed vault and the first beef steak to be grown outside a cow, as well as looking at community-led sustainability projects. And it invites you to get involved, with a multiplayer game where you can cook up your own future for food. Delicious!

See iconic spacecraft and out-of-this-world objects in our exciting new free gallery. Now open next to IMAX: The Ronson Theatre in the museum’s West Hall, Space brings together remarkable exhibits that celebrate both the first space age and the future of space exploration. Discover inspiring stories of human achievement in space travel, and see significant space objects from a new perspective including: In a world first, two human flown spacecraft (Apollo 10 and Soyuz) displayed alongside one another, allowing visitors to compare the differences between a spacecraft that orbited the moon in 1969 and travelled to the International Space Station in 2015.An RL10 rocket engine, which has helped launch spacecraft to every planet in the solar system.The radio headset used by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong to communicate with Mission Control.The Sokol spacesuit worn by Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space.A three-billion-year-old piece of the moon, brought back to Earth by the Apollo 15. Celebrate 10 years since Tim Peake’s mission to space with free activities Sunday 14 December Join us for a whole day of free, exciting space-inspired activities. From enjoying a live Space Show to trying on a replica Sokol spacesuit, there’ll be so much to discover. Tim Peake will be there all day, so you might get to meet a real-life astronaut too! Find out more here. Support us: be part of the discovery Find out how you can support the transformation of our museum spaces and inspire curiosity for generations to come. Discover how you can make a difference today: Support Us

This thought-provoking free photography exhibition reveals the fragile beauty of the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, and the threats to its rich wildlife. Wondrous and moving in equal measure, these photographs bear witness to the teeming majesty of this immense region, and the urgency and gravity of the crises that threaten it. Exhibited in the UK for the first time as part of its international tour, Water Pantanal Fire is part of the UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025-26, organised by the British Council and Instituto Guimarães Rosa.