Key Stage 4 (14-16)
Offer students the opportunity to see and experience the history, technology and scientific phenomena that they are learning at school. Give subjects a historical and social context and make them more real and memorable for students.
Choose elements from the list below or if you're following a curriculum theme click the links on the left for inspiration. Think about the pace of your visit and combine discussion and observation in our object rich galleries and special exhibitions with open-ended questioning and exploration in our hands-on galleries.
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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.
Object-rich galleries
A continually updated exhibition on science and technology news.
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.
Compare your home computer with Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 in this gallery on the history of the computer. Watch the video on Babbage's ingenious machine, or learn about the mathematical instruments used before the invention of computers.
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.
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.
Find out how it felt to be a doctor or patient at different times in history, or in different cultures. Forty-three scenes ranging from detailed models to full reconstructions show the history of medicine from Neolithic times to the 1980s.
Unravel the connection between apricot tins and kidney machines, scanners and 'jedi' helmets, in this provocative exhibition on developments in twentieth century medicine.
In this game, you can explore how science and technology might affect your life in the future. With other visitors, decide whether new technological developments - such as space tourism to male pregnancy - should or should not go ahead.
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.
The Mathematics Gallery exhibits mathematical instruments and models from the seventeenth century to present day, including mechanical calculators, slide-rules, drawing instruments and polyhedra.
Small exhibition exploring some of the stories, tools and puzzles that have engaged British psychologists during the twentieth century.
See more than 5000 objects from around the world illustrating the history of medicine in western and non-western cultures. Some are beautiful, some intriguing, and some have belonged to famous people.
See King George III's unrivalled and beautiful collection of contemporary scientific apparatus.
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.
This fascinating exhibition explores the science of you. See how new discoveries in genetics, brain science and psychology are helping us learn more about ourselves. How similar and different are you from other people and from other animals?
Special exhibitions
An exciting new exhibition exploring the role played by technology in creating post-war Britain.
Imagine, invent, adapt; use, reuse, recycle. An exhibition exploring the first century of plastics.
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.
Enjoy astonishing up-close 3D encounters with a multitude of shark species in this unforgettable giant screen experience.
Showing only upon request for education groups.
See dinosaurs come to life on the only screen big enough to play host to them in Dinosaurs Alive 3D!
Experience first-hand the awesome spectacle of earthquakes, volcanoes and storms on a quest to understand Earth's most destructive forces. Showing only upon request for education groups.
See inside yourself as you explore the human body on our giant screen. Showing only upon request for education groups.
The only place in London where you can see this amazing film in IMAX 3D.
Join scientists and explorers on their journey of discovery - how can mummies help them unravel the mysterious world of the pharaohs and the wonders of Ancient Egypt?
Blast off to space to see the building of the International Space Station in breathtaking 3D.
Events
Our drama characters quite literally bring science and technology to life.
A chilling drama presentation tracing the history of anaesthetics.