Key Stage 1 (5-7)
Our galleries and events link really well with themes in the primary curriculum and can be an exciting and memorable experience for students.
Mix and match elements from the list below or if you're following a topic or theme then click on the links on the left for inspiration. Think about the pace of your visit and combine the activity of the hands-on galleries and the excitement of shows, IMAX and drama with exploring real things in our object rich galleries.
Check out our free homework, science club and classroom resources.
Hands-on galleries
Launchpad - the Science Museum's most popular gallery - has been relocated and reinvented. Explore science and technology first-hand with 50 hands-on exhibits and shows. See yourself on the heat camera or listen to your voice echo down a 30 metre tube.
Pattern Pod is a hands-on gallery that was created especially for children from 5–8 years of age and their parents.
The Garden is an interactive gallery created especially for our very youngest visitors.
Object-rich galleries
Learn how mechanical power replaced animal power in this history of farming. Displays include models and original equipment and aspiring farmers can even set a Massey Ferguson combine harvester in motion.
Explore the world of materials, from the leading edge of scientific innovation to new insights into everyday objects. Walk on a glass bridge; see a steel wedding dress or visit the atomic disco with its giant molecular models.
Share the dreams of the flight pioneers: see the development of aviation from its tentative beginnings to the modern era of mass air travel. Displays include Amy Johnson's Gipsy Moth, the first British jet and a unique collection of aero engines.
This unique, breathtaking gallery chronologically presents 150 of the most significant items from the Science Museum's collections from 1750 to 2000. Nowhere else in the world will you be able to see a display that shows so vividly the development of the modern industrial world.
See the extraordinary range of labour-saving devices in this intriguing technological guide to the development of the modern home. Look at the array of gizmos and gadgets, test your skill at identifying mystery objects and attempt to outwit the burglar alarm.
Trace the story of the space rocket. Learn about the satellites orbiting Earth. Find out how we are probing the rest of the Solar System and beyond. In this gallery you too will be exploring space.
IMAX 3D Cinema
Dive into this magical 3D underwater adventure and be transported below the ocean surface to swim alongside some of the planet's most unique and colourful creatures.
Join a praying mantis and a caterpillar for a 3D rainforest adventure and discover the ups and downs of being an insect. Showing only upon request for education groups.
New! Fly Me to the Moon 3D (U)
In this animated spectacular, join three spirited and curious flies as they sneak on board the Apollo 11 mission for an incredible space journey. Get ready to blast off and relive the momentous occasion when the world was united for man’s first steps on the Moon!
Events
Our drama characters quite literally bring science and technology to life.
An engaging and interactive storytelling session exploring forces and motion through an adaptation of the popular traditional folk story, The Enormous Turnip.
Roaring rockets, amazing astronauts and smelly space poo.
An storytelling session and participatory workshop exploring materials through an adaptation of the popular traditional folk story.
Book an action-packed Science Show as part of your Launchpad visit.
Theme days
Our resident entomologist shows you the world of creepy-crawlies then watch a screening of the IMAX film Bugs! 3D and perhaps handle some bugs in the afternoon.
Join Tim Maynard to explore the amazing world of underwater creatures and watch Deep Sea 3D, then get up close with crabs and squid in the afternoon.