39-451: National Science Museum may refer to: Science Museum (London) National Science Museum of Japan National Science Museum, South Korea , South Korea Gwacheon National Science Museum , South Korea National Science Museum, South Korea National Science Museum (Thailand) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
78-563: A cross-section of a Boeing 747 . It opened in 1963 and was refurbished in the 1990s. Power Up is an interactive gaming gallery showcasing the history of video games and consoles from the past 50 years. Visitors can play on over 150 consoles, featuring consoles from the Binatone TV Master to the Play Station 5 . The Tomorrow's World gallery hosts topical science stories and free exhibitions including: The IMAX: The Ronson Theatre
117-476: A global hub for trade, commerce and scientific enquiry. The Mathematics: The Winton Gallery examines the role that mathematicians have had in building our modern world. In the landing area to access the gallery (stair C) is a working example of Charles Babbage 's Difference engine No.2. This was built by the Science Museum and its main part completed in 1991, to celebrate 200 years since Babbage's birth, and
156-418: A scientific twist". Up to 380 children aged between 7 and 11, accompanied by adults, are invited to spend an evening performing fun "science based" activities and then spend the night sleeping in the museum galleries amongst the exhibits. In the morning, they're woken to breakfast and more science, watching a show before the end of the event. On the evening of the last Wednesday of every month (except December)
195-636: A short UK tour, since 2019 Rocket is on permanent display at the National Railway Museum in York, in the Art Gallery. The Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries is a five-gallery medical exhibition which spans ancient history to modern times with over 3000 exhibits and specially commissioned artworks. Many of the objects on display come from the Wellcome Collection started by Henry Wellcome . One of
234-629: Is Baden-Powell House . The 100 Queen's Gate Hotel London , a historical building dating back to 1870, is also situated there. The only church is St Augustine's of Canterbury ( Church of England ). Five countries have embassies or high commissions in Queen's Gate: the Embassy of Iraq is at no. 21, the Bangladeshi High Commission at No. 28, the Royal Embassy of Thailand is at Nos. 29–30,
273-567: Is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington , London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually in 2019. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, the Science Museum does not charge visitors for admission, although visitors are requested to make a donation if they are able. Temporary exhibitions may incur an admission fee. It
312-406: Is a recreation of James Watt's garret workshop from his home, Heathfield Hall , using over 8,300 objects removed from the room, which was sealed after his 1819 death, when the hall was demolished in 1927. Exploring Space is a historical gallery, filled with rockets and exhibits that tell the story of human space exploration and the benefits that space exploration has brought us (particularly in
351-682: Is accessed by walking through the Energy Hall, Exploring Space and then the Making the Modern World galleries (see below) at ground floor level. The Energy Hall is the first area that most visitors see as they enter the building. On the ground floor, the gallery contains a variety of steam engines , including the oldest surviving James Watt beam engine , which together tell the story of the British Industrial Revolution . Also on display
390-561: Is an IMAX cinema which shows educational films (most in 3-D), as well as blockbusters and live events. It features a screen measuring 24.3 by 16.8 metres, with both a dual IMAX with Laser projection system and a traditional IMAX 15/70mm film projector, and an IMAX 12-channel sound system. Visitors to the Who Am I? gallery can explore the science of who they are through intriguing objects, provocative artworks and hands-on exhibits. Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery explores how
429-549: Is displayed in this gallery. Doug Millard, space historian and curator of space technology at the museum, states: "We got to the Moon using V-2 technology but this was technology that was developed with massive resources, including some particularly grim ones. The V-2 programme was hugely expensive in terms of lives, with the Nazis using slave labour to manufacture these rockets". Stephenson's Rocket used to be displayed in this gallery. After
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#1732852307830468-510: Is not 'greenwash'". There have been protests against the sponsorship; in May 2021, a group calling themselves 'Scientists for XR' ( Extinction Rebellion ) locked themselves to a mechanical tree inside the museum. The UK Student Climate Network carried out an overnight occupation in June 2021, and were threatened with arrest. In August 2021, members of Extinction Rebellion held a protest inside and outside
507-740: Is one of the five museums in the Science Museum Group . The museum was founded in 1857 under Bennet Woodcroft from the collection of the Royal Society of Arts and surplus items from the Great Exhibition as part of the South Kensington Museum , together with what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum . It included a collection of machinery which became the Museum of Patents in 1858, and
546-618: Is one of the funding partners of the museum's STEM Training Academy. Equinor's sponsorship of the Wonderlab exhibit was on the basis that the Science Museum would not make any statement to damage the oil firm's reputation. Shell has influenced how the museum presents climate change in its programme sponsored by the oil company. The museum has signed a gagging clause in its agreement with Shell not to "make any statement or issue any publicity or otherwise be involved in any conduct or matter that may reasonably be foreseen as discrediting or damaging
585-603: The National Collections Centre , at the Science Museum Wroughton, in Wiltshire. The Science Museum has a dedicated library, and until the 1960s was Britain's National Library for Science, Medicine and Technology. It holds runs of periodicals, early books and manuscripts, and is used by scholars worldwide. It was, for a number of years, run in conjunction with the library of Imperial College , but in 2007
624-781: The Patent Office Museum in 1863. This collection contained many of the most famous exhibits of what is now the Science Museum. In 1883, the contents of the Patent Office Museum were transferred to the South Kensington Museum. In 1885, the Science Collections were renamed the Science Museum and in 1893 a separate director was appointed. The Art Collections were renamed the Art Museum , which eventually became
663-568: The Science Museum Group) which oversees the Science Museum and other related museums, from 2002: Queen%27s Gate Queen's Gate is a street in South Kensington , London, England. It runs south from Kensington Gardens ' Queen's Gate (the edge of which gardens are here followed by Kensington Road ) to Old Brompton Road , intersecting Cromwell Road . The street is mostly in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , but part of
702-476: The Science Museum, as an independent entity, came into existence. The Science Museum's present quarters, designed by Sir Richard Allison , were opened to the public in stages over the period 1919–28. This building was known as the East Block, construction of which began in 1913 and was temporarily halted by World War I . As the name suggests it was intended to be the first building of a much larger project, which
741-590: The Victoria and Albert Museum. When Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone for the new building for the Art Museum, she stipulated that the museum be renamed after herself and her late husband . This was initially applied to the whole museum, but when that new building finally opened ten years later, the title was confined to the Art Collections and the Science Collections had to be divorced from it. On 26 June 1909
780-559: The commissioned artworks is a large bronze sculpture of Rick Genest titled Self-Conscious Gene by Marc Quinn . The galleries occupy the museum's entire first floor and opened on 16 November 2019. The Clockmakers Museum is the world's oldest clock and watch museum which was originally assembled by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in London's Guildhall . The Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery shows how London grew to be
819-588: The east side is in the City of Westminster . The municipal boundary is the street centre between Kensington Road and Imperial College Road . The street was built on land purchased by the Royal Commissioners for the Great Exhibition under an agreement dated August 1855 with Henry Browne Alexander, whose family owned the land through which the road was to pass, and William Jackson, a building speculator. The road
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#1732852307830858-694: The east side of Queen's Gate include the Royal Albert Hall , the Huxley Building of Imperial College London , the Dana Library and Research Centre and the Natural History Museum . Kensington Park School is just south of the Queen's Gate Gardens , opposite the museum. The road also lends its name to a private girls' school, Queen's Gate School , which is situated on the road. On the west side
897-516: The first five chapters cover the history of the museum from the Brompton Boilers in the 1860s to the opening of the Wellcome Wing in 2000. The remaining eight chapters cover a variety of themes concerning the museum's development. The Science Museum consists of two buildings – the main building and the Wellcome Wing. Visitors enter the main building from Exhibition Road, while the Wellcome Wing
936-510: The goodwill or reputation" of Shell. The museum signed a sponsorship contract with the Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor which contained a gagging clause, stating the museum would not say anything that could damage the fossil fuel company's reputation. The museum's director, Ian Blatchford , defended the museum's sponsorship policy, saying: "Even if the Science Museum were lavishly publicly funded I would still want to have sponsorship from
975-663: The library was divided over two sites. Histories of science and biographies of scientists were kept at the Imperial College Library until February 2014 when the arrangement was terminated, the shelves were cleared and the books and journals shipped out, joining the rest of the collection, which includes original scientific works and archives at the National Collections Centre. Dana Research Centre and Library previously an event space and cafe, reopened in its current form in 2015. Open to researchers and members of
1014-579: The most popular galleries in the museum is the interactive Wonderlab:The Equinor Gallery , formerly called Launchpad . The gallery is staffed by Explainers who demonstrate how exhibits work, conduct live experiments and perform shows to schools and the visiting public. The Flight gallery charts the development of flight in the 20th century. Contained in the gallery are several full sized aeroplanes and helicopters , including Alcock and Brown 's transatlantic Vickers Vimy (1919), Spitfire and Hurricane fighters, as well as numerous aero-engines and
1053-600: The museum organises an adults only evening with up to 30 events, from lectures to silent discos. Previous Lates have seen conversations with the actress activist Lily Cole and Biorevolutions with the Francis Crick Institute which attracted around 7000 people, mostly under the age of 35. In October 2007, the Science Museum cancelled a talk by the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, James D. Watson , because he claimed that IQ test results showed black people to have lower intelligence than white people. The decision
1092-568: The museum promising to boycott it following sponsorship of the museum's Energy Revolution exhibition by the coal mining company Adani . The directors of the South Kensington Museum were: The directors of the Science Museum have been: The following have been head/director of the Science Museum in London, not including its satellite museums: The following have been directors of the National Museum of Science and Industry , (since April 2012 renamed
1131-417: The museum with a 12 ft (3.7 m) pink dodo. In 2021, Chris Rapley, a climate scientist, resigned from the museum's advisory board because of oil and gas company sponsorship. In 2021, more than 40 senior academics and scientists said they would not work with the Science Museum due to its financial relationships with the fossil fuel industry. In 2022, more than 400 teachers signed an open letter to
1170-531: The official centenary history of the Science Museum on 14 April 2010. The first complete history of the Science Museum since 1957, Science for the Nation: Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum is a series of individual views by Science Museum staff and external academic historians of different aspects of the Science Museum's history. While it is not a chronological history in the conventional sense,
1209-527: The oil companies." Scientists for Global Responsibility called the museum's move "staggeringly out-of-step and irresponsible". Some presenters, including George Monbiot , pulled out of climate talks on finding they were sponsored by BP and the Norwegian oil company Equinor . Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment said the "carbon capture exhibition
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1248-440: The public, it allows free access to almost 7,000 volumes, which can be consulted on site. The Science Museum has been sponsored by major organisations including Shell , BP , Samsung and GlaxoSmithKline . Some have been controversial. The museum declined to give details of how much it receives from oil and gas sponsors. Equinor is also the title sponsor of "Wonderlab: The Equinor Gallery", an exhibition for children, while BP
1287-508: The title National Science Museum . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Science_Museum&oldid=1121041266 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Science Museum (London) The Science Museum
1326-742: The world can generate and use energy more sustainably to urgently reduce carbon dioxide emissions from global energy systems and limit the impact of climate change. The museum has some dedicated spaces for temporary exhibitions (both free and paid-for) and displays, on Level -1 (Basement Gallery), Level 0 (inside the Exploring Space Gallery and Tomorrow's World), Level 1 (Special Exhibition Gallery 1) and Level 2 (Special Exhibition Gallery 2 and The Studio). Most of these travel to other Science Museum Group sites, as well as nationally and internationally. Past exhibitions have included: The Science Museum organises Astronights , "all-night extravaganza with
1365-468: The world of telecommunications). Making the Modern World displays some of the museum's most remarkable objects, including Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive), Crick's double helix , and the command module from the Apollo 10 mission, which are displayed along a timeline chronicling man's technological achievements. A V-2 rocket , designed by German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ,
1404-547: Was criticised by some scientists, including Richard Dawkins , but supported by other scientists, including Steven Rose . The museum has undergone many changes in its history with older galleries being replaced by new ones. Blythe House, 1979–2019, the museum's former storage facility in West Kensington , while not a gallery, it offered tours of the collections housed there. Objects formerly housed there are being transferred to
1443-443: Was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects . The Information Age gallery has exhibits covering the development of communications and computing over the last two centuries. It explores the six networks that have transformed global communications: The Cable, The Telephone Exchange, Broadcast, The Constellation, The Cell and The Web It was opened on 24 October 2014 by the Queen, Elizabeth II , who sent her first tweet from here. One of
1482-583: Was never realized. However, the museum buildings were expanded over the following years; a pioneering Children's Gallery with interactive exhibits opened in 1931, the Centre Block was completed in 1961–3, the infill of the East Block and the construction of the Lower & Upper Wellcome Galleries in 1980, and the construction of the Wellcome Wing in 2000 result in the museum now extending to Queen's Gate . The leading academic publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, published
1521-541: Was originally known as Albert's Road , but was officially changed to Queen's Gate in 1859. Queen's Gate is also a three-councillor ward of Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with a population of 9,847 (2011 Census). The local Member of Parliament since 2019 has been Felicity Buchan . At the northern end of the road, near the actual gate to Kensington Gardens , is an equestrian statue of Field Marshal Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala , erected in 1920. From north to south, places of interest visible on
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