Editing Science Museum, London (section)

== Storage, library and archives ==
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.<ref name="SciMus">{{cite web |title=Blythe House – About us – Science Museum London |url=http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ingenioustours |access-date=21 September 2011 |archive-date=6 September 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040906164833/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ingenioustours |url-status=live }}</ref> Objects formerly housed there are being transferred to the [[National Collections Centre]], at the Science Museum Wroughton, in Wiltshire.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our collection |url=https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/about-us/collection/ |access-date=11 February 2021 |website=Science Museum Group |archive-date=12 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812150441/https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/about-us/collection/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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 [[Imperial College London Abdus Salam Library|library]] of [[Imperial College]], but in 2007 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 the public, it allows free access to almost 7,000 volumes, which can be consulted on site.