Your Guide To Becoming A Bubble-ologist
Here in the outreach team it’s our job to travel the country (and sometimes the world) bringing exciting science shows and workshops into classrooms, school halls, fields and town centres. We are often...
View ArticleVisitor Letters – Spaldwick School
We love receiving letters from our visitors and we always try our best to write back as soon as possible. Recently pupils from Spaldwick School visited the Launchpad gallery and saw the Feel the Force...
View ArticleVisitor Letters – Pirbright Village School
It’s always a nice surprise receiving letters from our visitors and we try our best to write back as soon as possible. In fact most of the letters we receive are from Primary Schools who have just...
View ArticleMischievous Mirrors – From The 18th Century To The Modern Day
Explainer Affelia in our Learning team looks at some mischievous mirrors in the Science Museum. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? We all know this famous saying from Snow...
View ArticleMaking A Splash!
One of the things I love about my job within the Learning department is the variety of things I get to work on. When we were approached to help with the development of a new app aimed at our pre-school...
View ArticleVisitor Letters – Loughborough School
We love receiving letters from our visitors and we always try our best to write back as soon as possible. Earlier in the year Loughborough School visited the museum to see the Feel the Force science...
View ArticleVisitor Inventions – Future Fashion
As it’s London Fashion Week, we take a look at the future fashion creations from visitors to our Launchpad gallery. You may be forgiven to think that this season’s must-have fashion are found on the...
View ArticleA Day In The Life Of An Explainer
Hello, I’m Sarah, one of the Explainers here at the Science Museum and I’m here to tell you about a day in my life as an Explainer. The first thing to say is that there is no such thing as a typical...
View ArticleEquations in Action
In Launchpad, if there’s one scientist we can’t get enough of, it’s Sir Isaac Newton. Although he lived around 300 years ago, the influence of his brilliant ideas still pervade many of our interactive...
View ArticleExplainer Vines
Eddie, a Science Museum Explainer, on demonstrating science in six seconds. Are you following the Science Museum Learning team on Twitter? We share lots of interesting facts, ideas and suggestions for...
View ArticleLaunchpad throughout the ages
As the Science Museum prepares to begin building an ambitious new Interactive gallery, we wave a fond farewell to Launchpad. Simon, an Explainer at the Museum, reflects on working in the gallery. “Wow!...
View ArticleBuilding Bridges: seeing the science in our lives
On the evening of Wednesday 13 July, the Science Museum opened its doors to the friends and family of those taking part in our Building Bridges project. For the project, we have been working with year...
View ArticleSchool trips to the Science Museum
It’s September again and for students all over it’s time to think ahead to the new academic year. We in the Learning Support Team have also shined our shoes and restocked our pencil cases ready to...
View ArticleFirst News Takeover Challenge
My name is Edward Cecil and I recently won the First News Takeover Challenge competition at the Science Museum. To enter, I had to send in a video saying why I wanted the job and I said that I wanted...
View ArticleMischievous Mirrors – From The 18th Century To The Modern Day
Explainer Affelia in our Learning team looks at some mischievous mirrors in the Science Museum. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? We all know this famous saying from Snow...
View ArticleMaking A Splash!
One of the things I love about my job within the Learning department is the variety of things I get to work on. When we were approached to help with the development of a new app aimed at our pre-school...
View ArticleVisitor Letters – Loughborough School
We love receiving letters from our visitors and we always try our best to write back as soon as possible. Earlier in the year Loughborough School visited the museum to see the Feel the Force science...
View ArticleVisitor Inventions – Future Fashion
As it’s London Fashion Week, we take a look at the future fashion creations from visitors to our Launchpad gallery. You may be forgiven to think that this season’s must-have fashion are found on the...
View ArticleA Day In The Life Of An Explainer
Hello, I’m Sarah, one of the Explainers here at the Science Museum and I’m here to tell you about a day in my life as an Explainer. The first thing to say is that there is no such thing as a typical...
View ArticleEquations in Action
In Launchpad, if there’s one scientist we can’t get enough of, it’s Sir Isaac Newton. Although he lived around 300 years ago, the influence of his brilliant ideas still pervade many of our interactive...
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