Stories
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Article
A nose through Blythe House
Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.
- Article
A head apart from the body
We look to the future of science via science fiction to explore how a head may live apart from its body.
- Interview
Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing
James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.
Catalogue
- Audio
Science museums.
Date: 2001- Books
Science museums in developing countries / With additional chapters by Torsten Althin, W.T. O'Dea, W. Stephen Thomas.
Greenaway, Frank.Date: 1962- Books
Science museums in transition : cultures of display in nineteenth-century Britain and America / edited by Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman.
Date: [2017]- Books
Science and technology museums / Stella V. F. Butler.
Butler, Stella V. F.Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
Here and now : contemporary science and technology in museums and science centres proceedings of a conference held at the Science Museum, London, 21-23 November 1996 / edited by Graham Farmelo and Janet Carding.
Date: 1997