News | Science Museum launches Space gallery – new permanent exhibition is part of a wider project to rework the ground floor of the London museum

The team have done a fantastic job with our new Space Gallery, the objects look gorgeous - these photos almost don't do them justice! - and some great stories woven throughout. We are now the only museum in the world where you can see an Apollo command module alongside a Soyuz module.🚀

Delighted to finally reveal the new SPACE gallery at London's @sciencemuseum.org.uk! It was a pleasure to help - providing what may well be the largest photo of the🌖on🌎! The gallery is stunning, and it's so special to see the Apollo 10 Command Module alongside Soyuz.

The team have done a fantastic job with our new Space Gallery, the objects look gorgeous - these photos almost don't do them justice! - and some great stories woven throughout. We are now the only museum in the world where you can see an Apollo command module alongside a Soyuz module.🚀

For #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay, we present our freeze drier, which we use to dry wet wood. Yes, we literally 'Shiver our Timbers'! See the full video - youtu.be/JMqpYOfc0v4

The @sciencemuseum.org.uk is opening a space gallery later this week. To celebrate, I filmed why Hawking kept a beach ball on his desk: I blow up the universe, then show how it captured the faint fingerprints of quantum jitters that seeded cosmic structure! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYud...

Yes, but *apart* from being hot, kind, intelligent, talented, hot, charming, generous, hot, iconic, sweet, funny, hot, hot and hot, what on earth did Robert Redford have going for him?

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respectfully, I think every single person in the country could stand to reflect on this

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

I randomly stumbled upon Fujio Kito, an artist who documents Japanese playgrounds at night. It was a fun little rabbit hole to follow. fujio-pand-park.tumblr.com

"Annie Bot vs The Tech Bros" 🤖 Clarke Award winner Sierra Greer & expert panel @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @laurenbeukes.com & Jen Wong explore SF’s influence on modern tech culture. 🗓️ Thurs 2 Oct, 1pm 📍Online / King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annie-bot-...

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

mega-proud to have helped The Delightful Sausage create another, somehow even madder, series of IcklewickFM. please listen!

This is really sad and horribly surprising news which I'm sure will be a blow to my friends in the genre fiction community as well Egyptologists and museum people. Such a larger than life character who lit up every space he entered. My thoughts with his friends & family, especially his husband John.

There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.

Great to see our new Space Gallery on here (although under design and architecture?), it's shaping up beautifully and I can't wait for you to see it!

Brilliant to see the latest incarnation of Cairo jazz band Eftekasat in Walthamstow last night, playing outdoors on a beautiful evening in Lloyd Park.

SUSPENDED DISBELIEF (2021) Acrylic on Gessobord - 10" x 8" It’s nearly 50 years since my frugal art school days but I still hate to waste paint, even small amounts. 1/3

Stunning, moving photographic essay on the changing climate of Africa from @sciencemuseum.org.uk with Mirella Ricciardi and @rogerhighfield.bsky.social

"But now in the swift midnight shuttering, the Electric Chair was a hearth and on it the old man blazed like a blue autumn tree." Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury.

Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.

You like creepy kids? Does anyone? Well horror seems pretty fond of them. 😂 Hear the wonderfully clever academic heavyweights @markbould.bsky.social and @theprofrog.bsky.social talk about John Wyndham, George Sanders and evil children. On your favourite podcasting app. Or YouTube. 🫡

Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer

I'm going to need to find this next time we are talking about large object moves in the museum...!

Let me be blunt, newbies: Nobody who works with a "big name" like me would be hitting up self-published authors in a completely different genre. That smell? It's bullshit. And if you aren't already, follow SFWA's Writer Beware blog and learn to smell it from a mile away. writerbeware.blog

On the @sciencemuseum.org.uk blog, our excellent curator of computing and communication Dr Rachel Boon wrote about the life of computing pioneer Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley who passed away recently: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/remembering-...

Congratulations to all the winners, and to the nominees! 🚀

Enjoyed this sign at the parish church in Whitby today…

Congratulations to all the @africansfs.bsky.social Nommo Awards finalists, announced today at Seattle WorldCon! www.africansfs.com/nommo-awards...

I couldn't be more delighted to accept this award. Thank you so much!

Glamour shot for Caturday

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... #booksky

The @sciencemuseum.org.uk Autumn IMAX schedule is on sale and Out of This World... The best space film ever, Apollo 13, showing on the film's 30th anniversary (so excited!) And then 70mm Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey and more. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/a...

'ALIEN: Level 5 of the National Science and Media Museum' is now Certified Fresh in Bradford at 100%

Walthamstow parents and carers this is not a drill - school uniform sale starts tomorrow at Walthamstow Salvation Army on Forest Road for next three days between 9.15am to 4pm. All items - including blazers and shoes - 50p! Please share this post to spread the word about this event!

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

On the occasion of her birthday, Tove Jansson on an elephant, London Zoo, 1957. Good morning.

RIP Jim Lovell, photographed here in front of Apollo 10 on his visit to the Science Museum @sciencemuseum.org.uk in 2013. You can read more about that visit here: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/apollo-13s-j...

Loved this book, treat yourself to a copy!

Illustrations of various strains of pollen in extreme magnification, as featured in Ueber den Pollen (1837), a book by St. Petersburg based German pharmacist and chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pollen-up-close-1837

Went for a lovely meal with the family in Brecon and then somehow got myself roped into being on a pedalo on the Usk! Beautiful but was not at all dressed appropriately 😅

Love this in Brecon Cathedral! 🐶

Before heading to the house I of course stopped in at Y Gaer, Brecon's museum, gallery and library. It's great: a lovely range of objects from throughout local history and some beautiful artworks.

I'm in mid-Wales, near Brecon, for a family gathering to celebrate my mum's big birthday. I sourced and booked the house, I think I did pretty well! 😍

Nietzsche abhors a vacuum www.worldofmoose.com/products/nie...

The history of food is the history of humanity, and now the Science Museum is taking a look at that history and what the future of food looks like. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bug...