Editing Science Museum, London (section)

==Galleries==
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 is accessed by walking through the Energy Hall, ''Exploring Space'' and then the ''Making the Modern World'' galleries (see below) at ground floor level.

=== Main building – Level 0 ===

====The Energy Hall====
[[File:Science Museum - East Hall 2390.jpg|upright|thumb|The Energy Hall]]
[[File:Steam engine in Science Museum Power gallery.webm|thumb|Video of a [[Corliss steam engine]] in the Energy Gallery in motion]]
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 [[Old Bess (beam engine)|oldest surviving James Watt beam engine]], which together tell the story of the British [[Industrial Revolution]].

Also on display 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.<ref name="SML">{{cite web |title=Watt's workshop |url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co52335/james-watts-garret-workshop-used-1790-1819 |publisher=Science Museum, London |access-date=2020-05-07 |archive-date=11 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611142640/https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co52335/james-watts-garret-workshop-used-1790-1819 |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Exploring Space====
''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 the world of telecommunications).

====''Making the Modern World''====
[[File:Apollo 10 comand module science museum.JPG|thumb|The Apollo 10 Command Module ''Charlie Brown'', which orbited the Moon 31 times in 1969,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_10a_Summary.htm |title=Apollo 10 |website=history.nasa.gov |access-date=30 June 2019 |archive-date=26 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126043142/http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_10a_Summary.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> is displayed in the Modern World Gallery.]]
''Making the Modern World'' displays some of the museum's most remarkable objects, including [[Puffing Billy (locomotive)|''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]], 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".<ref>{{cite news |first=Richard |last=Hollingham |title=V2: The Nazi rocket that launched the space age |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-nazis-space-age-rocket |date=8 September 2014 |access-date=26 February 2023 |publisher=BBC |archive-date=6 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306050345/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-nazis-space-age-rocket |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Millard |first1=Doug |title=V-2: The Rocket That Launched The Space Age |url=https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/v-2-the-rocket-that-launched-the-space-age/ |website=Science Museum Blog |date=8 September 2014 |access-date=26 February 2023 |archive-date=19 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190919235705/https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/v-2-the-rocket-that-launched-the-space-age/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Stephenson's Rocket]] used to be displayed in this gallery. After a short UK tour, since 2019 ''Rocket'' is on permanent display at the [[National Railway Museum]] in York, in the Art Gallery.

=== Main Building – Level 1 ===

==== ''Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries'' ====
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.<ref name="PJ">{{cite journal |last1=Burns |first1=Corrinne |date=13 December 2019 |title=Original Victorian pharmacy recreated in full at the Science Museum |url=https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/opinion/books-and-arts/original-victorian-pharmacy-recreated-in-full-at-the-science-museum/20207418.article |journal=Pharmaceutical Journal |language=en |volume=303 |issue=7932 |access-date=10 February 2021 |archive-date=17 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231217063625/https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/opinion/original-victorian-pharmacy-recreated-in-full-at-the-science-museum |url-status=live }}</ref> Many of the objects on display come from the Wellcome Collection started by [[Henry Wellcome]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wong |first1=Henry |date=14 November 2019 |title=The Science Museum's £24&nbsp;million exhibition gives medicine a human face |url=https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/11-17-november-2019/science-museum-medicine-wellcome-galleries/ |access-date=10 February 2021 |website=Design Week |publisher=Centaur Media plc |language=en-UK |archive-date=14 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114193346/https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/11-17-november-2019/science-museum-medicine-wellcome-galleries/ |url-status=live }}</ref> One of the commissioned artworks is a large bronze sculpture of [[Rick Genest]] titled ''Self-Conscious Gene'' by [[Marc Quinn]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dobson |first1=Juliet |date=2019 |title=The marvellous history of medicine |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6603 |journal=BMJ |volume=367 |issue=367 |pages=l6603 |doi=10.1136/bmj.l6603 |pmid=31753815 |s2cid=208226685 |access-date=10 February 2021 |archive-date=22 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191122024613/https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6603 |url-status=live }}</ref> The galleries occupy the museum's entire first floor and opened on 16 November 2019.<ref name="PJ" />

=== Main Building – Level 2 ===

==== The Clockmakers Museum ====
The Clockmakers Museum is the world's oldest clock and watch museum which was originally assembled by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in [[Guildhall, London|London's Guildhall]].

==== ''Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery'' ====
The ''Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery'' shows how London grew to be a global hub for trade, commerce and scientific enquiry.

==== ''Mathematics: The Winton Gallery'' ====
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 was designed by [[Zaha Hadid Architects]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mathematics: The Winton Gallery {{!}} Science Museum |url=https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/mathematics-winton-gallery |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=www.sciencemuseum.org.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-07 |title=Zaha Hadid Architects' mathematics gallery opens at London Science Museum |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2016/12/07/zaha-hadid-architects-mathematics-winton-gallery-london-science-museum/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Dezeen |language=en}}</ref>

==== ''Information Age'' ====
[[File:Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum London.jpg|thumb|Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum London]]
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<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do |title=See and do |website=Science Museum |access-date=26 July 2019 |archive-date=23 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123094644/https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do |url-status=live }}</ref> It was opened on 24 October 2014 by the Queen, [[Elizabeth II]], who sent her first tweet from here.<ref>{{cite web |date=24 October 2014 |title=Her Majesty The Queen sends her first tweet to unveil the Information Age |url=http://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/her-majesty-the-queen-sends-her-first-tweet-to-unveil-the-information-age/ |access-date=10 March 2015 |publisher=Blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk |archive-date=15 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315061139/http://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/her-majesty-the-queen-sends-her-first-tweet-to-unveil-the-information-age/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Main Building – Level 3 ===

====''Wonderlab: The Equinor Gallery'' ====
One of the most popular{{cn|date=November 2022}} 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.

====''Flight''====
The ''Flight'' gallery charts the development of flight in the 20th century. Contained in the gallery are several full sized [[aeroplanes]] and [[helicopter]]s, including [[Alcock and Brown]]'s transatlantic [[Vickers Vimy]] (1919), [[Supermarine Spitfire|Spitfire]] and [[Hawker Hurricane|Hurricane]] fighters, as well as numerous [[aircraft engine|aero-engines]] and a cross-section of a [[Boeing 747]]. It opened in 1963 and was refurbished in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rooney |first1=David |title=How did we get the planes in? |url=https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/how-did-we-get-the-planes-in/ |website=Science Museum |date=12 August 2010 |access-date=4 October 2020 |archive-date=7 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180607061003/https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/how-did-we-get-the-planes-in/ |url-status=live }}</ref>[[File:DNA Model Crick-Watson.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Replica]] of the DNA model built by [[Francis Crick|Crick]] and [[James D. Watson|Watson]] in 1953]][[File:Old bess beam engine may 2015.JPG|thumb|''[[Old Bess (beam engine)|Old Bess]]'', a surviving example of a steam engine made by [[James Watt]], in 1777]]

=== Wellcome Wing ===

==== ''Power Up'' (Level  1) ====
''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 series|Binatone TV Master]] to the [[PlayStation 5|Play Station 5]]. 

==== ''Tomorrow's World'' (Level 0) ====
The ''Tomorrow's World'' gallery hosts topical science stories and free exhibitions including:

* Mission to Mercury: Bepi Columbo<ref>{{cite web |title=Mission to Mercury : Bepi Columbo |url=https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/mission-mercury-bepi-colombo |website=Science Museum |access-date=28 June 2021 |archive-date=2 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702224622/https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/mission-mercury-bepi-colombo |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Driverless: Who's in control?'' (exhibition ended January 2021)<ref>{{cite web |title=Driverless : Who's in control? |url=https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/driverless-who-is-in-control |website=Science Museum |access-date=28 June 2021 |archive-date=2 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402204630/https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/driverless-who-is-in-control |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== ''IMAX: The Ronson Theatre'' (Entrance from Level 0) ====
The ''IMAX: The Ronson Theatre'' is an [[IMAX]] cinema which shows educational films (most in 3-D), as well as blockbusters and live events.<ref>{{Cite web |title=IMAX: The Ronson Theatre {{!}} Science Museum |url=https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/imax-cinema |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=sciencemuseum.org.uk |language=en |archive-date=21 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321152949/https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/imax-cinema |url-status=live }}</ref> It features a screen measuring 24.3 by 16.8 metres, with both a dual [[IMAX#Laser projection|IMAX with Laser]] projection system and a traditional IMAX 15/70mm film projector, and an IMAX 12-channel sound system.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Har-Even |first=Benny |title=Behind The Curtain At The London Science Museum IMAX |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/bennyhareven/2021/12/28/behind-the-curtain-at-the-london-science-museum-imax/ |date=2020-12-28 |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=28 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228230939/https://www.forbes.com/sites/bennyhareven/2021/12/28/behind-the-curtain-at-the-london-science-museum-imax/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== ''Who Am I?'' (Level 1) ====
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'' (Level 2) ====
''Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery'' explores how 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.