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.
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.
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.
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.
Pattern Pod is a hands-on gallery that was created especially for children from 5–8 years of age and their parents.
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 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.
The Ships gallery houses an unusually large and fine collection of models, including the first steam engine to power a vessel: William Symington's marine engine of 1788. It includes displays on Marine Engineering and Docks and Diving.
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.
The Garden is an interactive gallery created especially for our very youngest visitors.