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Steam traction inspector Jim Smith Mallard made a special appearance in front stands proudly between LNER’s Azuma, of a delighted audience to mark the start of on the left platform, and railway legend a new passenger service along the east coast Mallard, at York station

Railway history was made last summer in 30 years. Mallard pulled up alongside The event delighted the crowds who the museum,’ said David Horne, managing the museum’s most-loved attractions, is a light broke through the clouds, Mallard was when the world-famous locomotives Azuma in a historic line-up that had gathered to see these era-defining director of LNER. ‘Having such a legendary static exhibit in the Great Hall, surrounded able to emerge from the museum – not Mallard and Flying Scotsman joined captured the speed and style of high- vehicles, and also secured widespread locomotive from LNER’s proud history by other rail vehicles. Moving it required under its own power, but with wheels and LNER's latest train Azuma to mark speed rail travel through the ages. media coverage, enabling LNER to alongside our new Azuma helped to create a a series of careful shunts to manoeuvre pistons in motion to delight the crowds. the start of passenger services on celebrate its history and announce a truly momentous occasion as we look to the other engines aside. The success of the the East Coast Main Line. The special After a short opening ceremony, the new era of high-speed travel. future of rail travel on the LNER route.’ event hung in the balance, as specialist The event allowed us to show our collection event began when No. 4468 Mallard, special Azuma service travelled north contractors were called upon to test the to a wider audience, and demonstrated the the world steam record holder and to Darlington where passengers were ‘We worked very closely with the Behind the successful event was a period locomotive’s fitness to run – a failure at value of maintaining strong links with the thoroughbred locomotive, left the treated to a second rare glimpse of a team at the National Railway Museum of intense preparation that saw LNER any point would have called an immediate rail industry. It also highlighted our ability National Railway Museum to go on renowned engine, when Azuma stood to give Mallard a very rare and and colleagues from the National Railway halt to proceedings. However, on the day, as to tell stories about rail engineering from display at York station for the first time alongside No. 60103, Flying Scotsman. memorable public appearance outside Museum working together. Mallard, one of a heavy rain shower cleared and the early the past, present and future. RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

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‘Today, we stand on the cusp of the OUR FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS graphene age, with applications in Science Museum, London everything from de-icing of aircraft National Railway Museum, York Science and Industry Museum, Manchester Below Dame Mary Archer, wings to life-saving medicine. The story National Science and Media Museum, Bradford chair of the Science of those pioneers is told here at the Locomotion, Shildon Museum Group, beside Waterloo Station (1967) Science and Industry Museum – and by Terence Cuneo, in the it is one of the countless tales of SUPPORT OUR MUSEUMS National Railway Museum Mancunian pioneers’ Visit sciencemuseum.org.uk/about-us/support-us or for corporate membership and patrons see page 62 Boris Johnson makes his maiden speech as prime minister FORCE at the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester ANNUAL REVIEW ONLINE sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/about-us/annual-review

‘I look forward to seeing how the Manchester Science Festival and the Science Museum’s exhibition about FOR carbon capture spark discussion about how to protect our fragile planet’ Sir David Attenborough at the launch of the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Science Museum CHANGE ‘Oh yes! Now this is it. This is my sort of place, this. Just look at the size of these engines. The National Railway In the midst of testing times, the Science Museum Group Museum is a shrine to British is even more committed to its global message and engineering – from the golden age ambitious work, says our chair Dame Mary Archer of steam to the modern day’

David Jason, actor and presenter SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP The Science Museum Group’s focus on a joined a group of schoolchildren to for scientific innovation and ANNUAL REVIEW 2019–20 global, rather than a national, perspective plant native hazel, wild cherry, rowan unprecedented change all over the has never been more relevant as the world and crabapple trees to mark the Group’s world. Now, with Greater Manchester’s © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum ‘These galleries really testify to this tackles a pandemic. We publish our latest climate-focused public programme. vision of becoming carbon neutral by city’s and the UK’s contribution to Edited by Kate Quill Annual Review when there is greater 2038, the city is uniquely placed to with generous input from staff across the Group awareness than ever of the vital role of These are in addition to the 43,000 native influence future progress across the and its many bloggers science, technology and industry’ science in helping us to understand, treat trees that the Group has already planted globe once again. Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, Designed by Steve Lancefield and protect against infectious diseases. over the past decade at our National Collections Centre in Wiltshire, where we At our National Railway Museum in at the Science and Industry Museum Project managers: Katie Dowler and Madeleine Hart In that spirit, in February the Science also host an external solar farm, which York, the use of natural materials and Main photography from Group resources: Museum was delighted to host the launch feeds up to 50MW of electricity into the sustainable architecture was Science and Industry Museum of both the UK Year of Climate Action and national grid at any one time. emphasised in a competition to help ‘We cannot underestimate the National Science and Media Museum National Railway Museum/Pictorial Collection the UN’s 26th Climate Change Conference. transform the museum into the cultural potential of Sound and Vision to Science & Society Picture Library We have committed to planting a further anchor for York Central. This will be one Science Museum Library and Archives The naturalist Sir David Attenborough and 1,000 native locally sourced trees every of the largest city-centre brownfield impact our communities, both Science Museum Photographic Studio economically and emotionally’ Daily Herald Archive/National Science and Media Museum the UK and Italian prime ministers chose us year until 2030. regeneration projects in Europe because the Science Museum Group is a (see page 16). Susan Hinchcliffe, leader of Bradford Council, on new With thanks for additional photographs by: prominent scientific voice in engaging its But planting trees, even millions of them, Kasim Asim, Isidora Bojovic, Bradford Heritage Recording Unit, Stephen galleries at the National Science and Media Museum Baxter, Anna Bridson, Crest Photography, Mark Dolby, Drew Forysth, audience of more than five million people is not enough to mitigate global climate There is much talk of this being a Mary Freeman, Wang Fuchun, Andy Garbutt, Noah Goodrich, Charlotte with the biggest threat to our planet – change. That is why carbon capture and year of climate action, but we need Graham, Nabeelah Hafeez, Kat Harrison Dibbits, Jody Hartley, Jennie Hills, global climate change. As Sir David told us: storage are the focus of a new temporary to think in the long term. The Group’s Kris Humphreys, Jason Hynes, Rameez Khawaja, Jody Kingzett, Jason ‘This unique collaboration between Lock, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Barry MacDonald, Andrew Parsons/No 10 ‘The moment of climate crisis is with us and exhibition at the Science Museum, Sustainability Strategy (see page 20) Downing Street, Patrick Marks, Plastiques Photography Limited, our planet needs us all to act now.’ and why climate change will be the theme means we are committed to act each and GCHQ and the Science Museum is a Lynn Patrick, Kevin Percival, Sam Potts, Science & Society Picture of our biggest event, the Manchester every year to further curb our carbon Library, Ben Shread, Tim Smith, Mariana Yanez, Kira Zumkley great way to mark our centenary’ At the launch, Sir David, Sir Ian Blatchford, Science Festival. emissions. To help us in this vital work, Printed by Go Agency, using sustainable paper – Edixion Offset, which director and chief executive of the Science I am delighted to welcome the Group’s Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, at the launch ® is Environmentally friendly – ECF pulp, FSC certified, and EU Eco label. Museum Group, and Darren Moorcroft, As the birthplace of the Industrial new trustees Peter Hendy, Hannah Fry of Top Secret at the Science Museum Green Star rating – 4, ISO 9001 & ISO 1401 chief executive of the Woodland Trust, Revolution, Manchester was the catalyst and Jo Foster (see page 64).

Cover image Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Sir David Attenborough discuss climate change with children at the Science Museum. Photography Dame Mary Archer is patron of the National Energy Foundation, president of the UK Solar Energy Society and a companion of the Energy Institute. by Jody Kingzett Back image A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley by Rowland Emett, from the SMG Collection. Photography by Jennie Hills She has written and contributed to various volumes of work concerning solar energy utilisation.

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‘The Science Museum Group has found ‘Our history helps us understand who we ‘As we plan for a new decade we ‘The National Railway Museum is a innovative ways of bringing its collections are and where we came from and this continue to celebrate the collections truly unique institution and a must-see to us. It has also chronicled the UK’s exciting art project will further increase and the expertise at the National for the curious. Here, the extraordinary response to the coronavirus crisis through public engagement with the Science Science and Media Museum with human stories and iconic locomotives of thoughtful collection and scholarship’ Museum Group’s world-class collection’ colleagues all around the world’ the past rub shoulders with the cutting Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden Michael Ellis, former arts minister, on our new commission David Wilson, director, Bradford UNESCO City of Film edge technologies of today’ for the National Collections Centre Prue Leith, restaurateur, chef and broadcaster

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magnificent Medicine galleries. We commissioned spectacular works of art, displayed our collections with flair and inclusion, and installed new lifts and facilities for our growing audience.

The new galleries begin with Marc Quinn’s commanding sculpture, Self-Conscious Gene, which stirs the heart and mind as one enters the space. The opening of Medicine means that we have transformed half of the museum over the past decade, and plan to beautify the rest in the decade to come.

Beyond the permanent galleries, the museum marked the centenary of GCHQ with the launch of Top Secret and revealed its work in securing our safety and prosperity. Other exhibitions Vision 2025 will also embrace Locomotion, ‘The opening of Medicine: included Driverless, which examined our railway museum in Shildon, Co Durham. The Wellcome Galleries AI through the lens of autonomous It occupies a site whose railway works are could not have been more vehicles, and The Art of Innovation: a landmark in the history of the industry. TEN YEARS OF From Enlightenment to Dark Matter. This Since Locomotion opened to the public timely, reminding us of the surveyed the fascinating relationship in 2004, its popularity has exceeded all extraordinary advances between scientists and artists over the expectations. We will be working with our medicine has made, and SPECTACULAR past 250 years, and was accompanied by a wonderful joint partner, Durham County will continue to make’ book and a 20-part BBC series for Radio 4. Council, to expand the collection displays as part of the wider vision for the National Sir Ian Blatchford, director, While we have great plans for London, our Railway Museum. One of my favourite Science Museum Group ACHIEVEMENT boldest ambitions centre on the National encounters of the year was visiting Shildon Railway Museum in York. It celebrates to see our most joyful acquisition of its 50th anniversary in 2025 and the 2019, an extraordinary kinetic sculpture proposals for its new Sound and Vision same year marks the bicentenary of the entitled A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud galleries, which will honour a world-class The past decade has seen the Group pursue an We have invested in challenging Stockton and Darlington Railway, a moment Cuckoo Valley by the cartoonist, inventor collection of photography, television, radio ambitious programme of expansion and innovation. exhibitions; dynamic STEM (science, of world heritage importance. Vision and artist Rowland Emett (see back cover). and film. And while the collections are of We are now the most significant science museum technology, engineering and mathematics) 2025 will see a £55 million investment global importance, the museum has a learning; collection scholarship; digital in upgraded collection displays, STEM Staying with this transport theme, the deep relationship with local communities organisation in the world, with a global audience resources; access to our collections; and learning, and public engagement around Liverpool and Manchester Railway was, as was shown by its pioneering show and a firm commitment to the cultural life of world-class galleries. We also decided to the future of the railways in the country in 1830, the world’s first inter-city line Above the Noise. the country outside London, says Group director invite the Science and Industry Museum that invented them. and its Manchester terminus at Liverpool Sir Ian Blatchford in Manchester to join us in 2012, and thus Road station is today home to our Science Across the Group, we continue to welcome became the most significant group of And at a time when there is a national and Industry Museum. It is a site of great the scientists, engineers and technicians science museums in the world. consensus about the urgent need for cultural importance and architectural of today and the future. Last year, we In a year when humanity is dealing with On that note of optimism at this difficult economic and cultural investment beauty, but it needs some serious love. celebrated the first anniversary of the the Covid-19 crisis, the one thing we can time, I would like to take the liberty of We now have a consistent brand and beyond the capital, we were delighted So it was great to begin the restoration of Science Museum Group Academy, our be sure of is that science will ultimately reflecting on how much the Group has values, a better understanding of our that the Department for Digital, Culture, its Power Hall, which houses a splendid dedicated centre for science engagement show us how to bring this pandemic to changed over the past decade. On my audiences and, as our chair described Media and Sport (DCMS) committed collection of the steam and electrical training. It has already become an essential an end. This fact has made all of us in arrival in 2010, our prospects were on page one, we are now the essential £18.6 million to this project. In 2019, the engines that made this region an industrial resource for teachers, museum educators the Science Museum Group even more hardly rosy, with galleries and collections location to announce the UK presidency of team at the National Railway Museum powerhouse. All of this has been made and STEM professionals. committed to our role in bringing the suffering from long-term underinvestment the UN’s 26th Climate Change Conference. were not only planning their new vision, possible thanks to special capital funding subject and its greatest pioneers to life and the organisation facing major but also launched two wonderful touring from the DCMS, for which we are very And this leads me to my final word on for our visitors, notably schoolchildren, reductions in government funding. We have built long-term relationships exhibitions: Brass, Steel and Fire and grateful. Among the many national events what extreme ambition can achieve. In some of whom will surely go on to play with so many generous partners and One Billion Journeys. held in the museum last year, we were October last year, the Science Museum their own role in devising life-saving We might have responded with supporters, who have helped us every particularly delighted that the Bank of was delighted to welcome Peter Tabichi, solutions. The opening of Medicine: retrenchment, thereby risking a spiral step of the way to fulfil our ambitions England chose it as the venue to announce the Kenyan teacher who won the 2019 The Wellcome Galleries – the greatest of decline with reduced programming, to offer a wealth of experiences, that Alan Turing, the renowned code- Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize. medical collection in the world – at the shabbier galleries and alienated exhibitions, galleries and learning breaker and computer pioneer who lived He remarked on the museum’s power to Science Museum last year could not have visitors. But I was struck by the staggering opportunities to millions of visitors, and worked in Manchester, would grace enchant, entertain and inspire and in been more timely, reminding us of the importance of our collections, the energy both online and in person. the new £50 note. doing so encapsulated the Group’s Opposite Bloom, an aerial sculpture representing extraordinary advances medicine has and intelligence of my colleagues, and the spread of infectious disease, by Studio Roso, powerful ability to reach out to curious made, and will continue to make, from the great affection and trust that our At the Science Museum, we saw the in the Medicine galleries at the Science Museum The past decade has seen a remarkable young minds: ‘I was overcome by wonder hospitals to drugs, vaccines and visitors still vested in us, so we chose culmination of a decade of scholarship, Above right Jean Thomas, Nancy Rothwell, Julia renewal for the National Science and at the scale and scope of the exhibits. Goodfellow, David Attenborough, Amanda Solloway computer modelling. a different path and took a punt on audience insights, outreach and gallery and Ian Blatchford at the 10th Anniversary Gala of Media Museum in Bradford, and we I could see the look of wonder in the extreme ambition instead. transformation when we opened our the Royal Society of Biology have spent the year developing radical eyes of so many children.’

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‘The development of Building Two and the homecoming NATIONAL SCIENCE AND MEDIA MUSEUM of Locomotion No. 1 will give Locomotion even more The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford explores the science and opportunities to put the heritage of Shildon and culture of image and sound technologies the North East on the map’ and their impact on our lives. We hold world-famous collections in photography, Peter Hendy, trustee, Science Museum Group film and television, while our three-screen THE WORLD’S cinema, Pictureville, including an IMAX theatre, allows us to showcase films from around the world. The Sound and Vision galleries, due to open in 2023, will bring together star objects from our GREATEST collection for the first time to present a comprehensive history of the still and moving image.

NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM ALLIANCE The National Railway Museum in York is home to the world’s greatest collection of railway objects from the past 250 years. Set in former railway buildings near York station, the museum attracts visitors from OF SCIENCE around the world and tells inspiring stories of railway history and engineering. It has an unrivalled collection of famous locomotives ‘Enhanced public access Above Building One, and royal carriages and a busy programme our new collections of exhibitions and events. Vision 2025 is a is at the heart of our management facility, at the National Collections £55 million transformation of the site that vision for the National Centre in Wiltshire will reimagine the story of the railways and Collections Centre’ provide an interactive and engineering- focused experience for visitors. Jonathan Newby, Group managing director SCIENCE MUSEUM LOCOMOTION The Science Museum has pioneered Locomotion displays highlights of the interactive science for more than eight national collection of rail vehicles in decades. We welcome 3.2 million visitors a Shildon – the world’s first railway town year and remain the most visited museum – in Co Durham. The building is home to in the UK by schools. The Group’s world- more than 70 heritage vehicles, including class collection forms an enduring record the prototype Deltic, British Rail’s of scientific, technological and medical experimental Advanced Passenger Train, advancement from across the globe. Key North Eastern Railway No. 1, one of the objects on display include Tim Peake’s country’s first electric locomotives, and Soyuz capsule (2015) and a copy of the High Speed Train prototype power car. Above The Science Right The National Museum in London Science and Media Isaac Newton’s seminal text Principia Locomotion’s workshop carries out a range is the most visited Museum in Bradford Mathematica (1687). The museum’s Library of restoration projects on our vehicles museum in the UK by explores the history of and Archives care for more than half a which visitors can watch from a purpose- school groups the moving image million items. In 2019, six new permanent built viewing platform. galleries opened: Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery plus the five that make NATIONAL COLLECTIONS CENTRE up Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries. The National Collections Centre in Wiltshire is home to some of the Science Museum SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY MUSEUM Group’s largest and most dramatic The Science and Industry Museum in objects, from the Blue Steel standoff Manchester tells the stories of ideas bomb to the Sno-Cat vehicle for Antarctic that have changed the world, from the exploration. The centre is undergoing a Industrial Revolution to today and beyond. major transformation with the construction Located on the site of the oldest surviving of a vast new collections management passenger railway station, in the world’s facility. This will house more than first industrial city, the museum explores 300,000 small and large objects from the the greatest innovations of the past 200 Group’s collection, including buses, cars, years, from light bulbs and locomotives to telescopes and computers. Researchers, Above Atmospheric Right Locomotion, in textiles and computers. Our programme school groups and the public will be Memory, an art Shildon, Co Durham of exhibitions, experiences and events, welcome to visit from 2023. The site is installation at the Far right Stephenson’s Science and Industry Rocket in the National including the Manchester Science Festival, home to native woodlands and one of the Museum, Manchester Railway Museum, York bring science to life for people of all ages. UK’s largest solar farms.

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1 2 10 10 Actors Sheila 11 Hancock and Maureen Lipman with director Trevor WE ARE Nunn at the Arts and Media Lunch in the Science Museum’s Smith Centre

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1 Karina Vold of 2 Danielle Bisutti and 3 4 Cambridge University, Chris Judge at Power Michael Ellis MP, SMG UP in London 12 Samira Ahmed, Derek chair Dame Mary Bardowell, Angela 12 13 Archer, Chris Hayhurst 4 Actor Matthew Saini and Gavin Evans of MathWorks, and Broderick enjoys his at a Science Museum SMG director Sir Ian day off with a visit discussion on so- Blatchford at the to Top Secret called 'race science' launch of Driverless 13 Aleyne Johnson of 3 Jeremy Fleming, Samsung, former director of GCHQ, science minister at Top Secret Chris Skidmore, SMG chair Dame 5 Gordon Corera, 5 6 Mary Archer, former BBC security Samsung CMO Sam correspondent, with Grant, and astronaut Sir Ian Blatchford, Tim Peake at the SMG director, at the unveiling of Soyuz in launch of Top Secret the Science Museum 6 Prime Minister Boris 14 Tim Peake receives 15 Prue Leith, Johnson with Sally 14 15 MacDonald, director the 2019 Rooke restaurateur and of the Science and Award from broadcaster, was Industry Museum, Hayaatun Sillem, CEO, a guest speaker at and Dame Mary the Royal Academy the National Railway Archer, SMG chair of Engineering Museum’s Director’s Dinner 16 Actor David Jason visits the National Railway Museum 7 Sir David 7 during filming for a Attenborough, new documentary naturalist and series broadcaster, Sir Ian Blatchford, SMG director, and Darren 17 Games journalist Moorcroft, chief 16 executive of the and presenter Alysia Woodland Trust, 8 Greater Manchester’s Judge hosts a panel join schoolchildren civic mayors join 9 discussion at the to plant a tree Sally MacDonald Yorkshire Games outside the Science in front of Festival Museum’s Dana Stephenson’s Rocket Centre for the Mayoral Civic Visit at the Science and Industry Museum 17 9 Sir Ian Blatchford, 8 SMG director, and the artist Marc Quinn beside Self- Conscious Gene

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89,000 ‘Our £150 million Blythe House operation will help provide superb new storage facilities for our national Number of collections. I am delighted that the Science Museum NATIONAL collection objects illustrated online. Group is putting public access at the heart of its The collection plans for the National Collections Centre’ website has Michael Ellis, former arts minister been visited two TREASURES million times It has been a busy year for the teams who manage the Group’s objects, as they prepare more than

300,000 items for the historic move to our Main image Above Jonathan Newby, National Collections Centre in Wiltshire Construction of Building Group managing One at the National director, and Michael Collections Centre Ellis MP, launch the start began in February 2019 of construction work

Rising to the challenge One of the grandest scientific instruments in King George III’s observatory in Richmond was a monumental mural arc. Standing three metres tall, its brass silhouette is one of the highlights of Science City 1550-1800: The Linbury Gallery, our new permanent gallery at the Science Museum.

To prepare for display, the arc underwent extensive conservation. Discoloured lacquering was removed to make the finely engraved details visible. The biggest challenge, however, was moving the arc ‘Thrillingly, we are in the Reviewing what we have to the gallery. The arc’s weight and size – midst of revolutionising In 2018 our curators embarked on a review 450 kilogrammes – made this a logistical public access to one of the of the collection, studying it in detail to challenge, particularly as it had to be gain a greater understanding of the items hoisted up to the second floor. Fortunately, most significant scientific we care for. This important work is already our museum staff have long and extensive collections in the world’ bearing fruit. For example, a review of our experience of transporting enormous and aeronautical collection led to the gifting of extremely heavy items. Jonathan Newby, Group managing director the Sandringham ‘flying boat’ to the Solent The Science Museum Group’s ambitious With construction nearly finished, project We also launched the first of our annual Sky Museum in Southampton (building on One such heavy item, of course, is project to transport 320,000 of its items managers are discussing the internal online themes, exploring the impact an existing long-term loan). Reviews are Stephenson’s Rocket, which in September to a new, purpose-built collections centre layout and planning for public access of chemistry through artefacts in the also under way at the National Collections crossed the Pennines, travelling from in Wiltshire is well under way, with the to the new facility, in preparation for its collection related to food, fashion, plastics, December 2016. They even helped a staff Centre to assess the significance of other the Science and Industry Museum in new facility nearing completion. It will, opening to researchers and public tours pollution and more. We shared engaging member return the missing part of an areas of the collection, ranging in subject Manchester to the National Railway as Jonathan Newby, Group managing in 2023. The team are also studying, stories and videos, created 360-degree object to its rightful place. from civil engineering to firefighting. Museum in York. Following Rocket’s journey director, says, ‘transform how we care for digitising and preparing up to 20,000 views of objects and highlighted lesser- from London to Newcastle and Manchester, and share our internationally significant large objects already housed at the site known ones. Indeed, giving the public easier and At the Blythe House store we are the conservation team are now experts at collection with the world’. for their move into the building. greater access to our enormous collection reviewing an archive of 200,000 handling, moving and reassembling the There are now 89,000 images of the is the focus of the Group’s ambitions photographs and negatives of railway chimney of this 190-year-old locomotive. Construction of Building One at the In 2019 we also began the monumental collection online (more than double what over the next few years. As Newby says: life, gaining knowledge, identifying National Collections Centre began in task of packing all 300,000 objects at was available in April 2019). Support from ‘Enhanced public access is at the heart duplicates and preparing them for their The opening of Medicine: The Wellcome February 2019, and by May the facility’s Blythe House in west London, where Google Arts & Culture helped to digitise a of our vision for the National Collections move to the National Science and Media Galleries has also kept the Science steel structure had taken shape. Since the bulk of our collection is currently further 11,000 coins and paper artworks. Centre and I am delighted construction is Museum. In addition, we are updating Museum’s conservation team busy, then progress has been rapid. Almost stored. By March 2020, more than 50 Global audiences have explored rarely seen under way for the collection’s new home. online records with new curatorial with the cleaning and preparation of 1,000 people have been involved in the staff had conserved 137 objects, items and star objects from the Science Soon Wiltshire residents and audiences research. Short descriptions of more than significant historical items for display construction and, by November, 212,612 packed 50,072, photographed 132,602 Museum Group Collection through the across the globe will be able to explore 100 areas of the collection have been and the installation of 3,000 delicate nuts, bolts and fixings had been used to and recorded, barcoded and hazard- collection website, which recently received more of our incredible collection than published online, providing further objects, including 200-year-old wax complete the building’s shell. checked 218,538 items. its two millionth visit since launching in ever before.’ insights for our audiences. anatomical figures.

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‘Staggering both in breadth and volume’ The Londonist

‘The Wellcome Galleries provide an enthralling historical context for how we experience health and medicine in the modern world’ MEDICAL Adam Kay, The Daily Telegraph MARVEL The Science Museum has transformed its first floor into a magnificent gallery exploring the history of medicine, with bespoke works of art, ground-breaking technology and moving testimonies

After nine years of planning, the five galleries is arranged by theme. In One notable feature of Medicine has Science Museum was delighted to open Medicine and Bodies, we explore what been the use of contemporary art to a spectacular new permanent space, we have learned about the human body bring together the history of science and Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, in over the centuries, including the history medicine with contemporary culture. The November last year. Spread across the of anatomy, different ways of imaging and monumental sculpture Self-Conscious Gene first floor of the museum, the five galleries measuring the body, and the body on a was created especially for the Medicine allow our visitors to explore the most microscopic level. and Bodies gallery by the celebrated significant medical collection in the artist Marc Quinn. Illuminating the ceiling world, interwoven with the stories and In Medicine and Treatments: The GSK of Medicine and Communities is Bloom, a experiences of patients and doctors. Gallery, we examine how we manage the kinetic sculpture inspired by the spread of health of the individual, using surgery, infectious disease, by the Danish designers Award-winning architects WilkinsonEyre different therapies and drugs. Here, our Studio Roso. The elaborate bronze Santa have designed a stylish series of galleries visitors can enter a Victorian pharmacy Medicina by Eleanor Crook keeps watch that seamlessly links the 3,000sq-metre and experiment with mixing their own over the thought-provoking gallery Faith, space. The project has transformed not medicines through an interactive digital Hope and Fear. And across two galleries only the first floor but also opened up exhibit. And in Medicine and Communities, are the beautiful, life-size photographic the entire museum, making use of areas a gallery dedicated to public health, portraits created for us by Siân Davey. that had been closed to the public for visitors can learn about infectious disease, several years and uniting the Making sanitation and the history of the hospital. Alongside these striking artworks, Medicine the Modern World gallery on the ground contains many digital, interactive exhibits. floor with those above. Solid-oak flooring Exploring Medicine is a vast cabinet of Visitors can play games, some of which and an emphasis on sight-lines make the curiosities, crammed from floor to ceiling have proved to be extremely topical. They space easy to navigate. With two new lifts with more than 1,000 objects. Resembling can experience the challenges of stopping and new toilets, it is also fully accessible a museum storeroom, it houses objects an epidemic from spreading, or being in an to our visitors. Red highlight markers from the ancient to modern that jostle intensive care unit, or learn what is involved alert viewers to star objects, while audio, together on the shelves. This gallery also in ensuring a new drug is safely tested. subtitles and British Sign Language ensure showcases some of the museum’s recent Clever animations explain what cells and 3,000 the experience is open to all. acquisitions. The final gallery, Faith, proteins are, and how magnetic resonance Number of square Hope and Fear, examines the cultural imaging (MRI) works. metres that the first Medicine includes Sir Henry Wellcome’s side of medicine, and how faith in our floor gallery covers vast collection – on long-term loan from treatment and in our doctors, and the Right Self-Conscious Gene, a 3.5-metre bronze – the equivalent of Wellcome – as well as the museum’s own support of loved ones, have a direct sculpture of Rick ‘Zombie Boy’ Genest, by Marc 1,500 hospital beds extensive medical archive. Each of the effect on our health. Quinn, towers above visitors as they enter the space

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MEDICINE: THE WELLCOME GALLERIES MEDICINE: THE WELLCOME GALLERIES

Below Santa Medicina, an allegorical bronze figure by Eleanor Crook, in Faith, Hope and Fear ‘We are incredibly proud to see our Batman radiotherapy mask taking pride of place in the new Medicine galleries. The painted masks help children who are undergoing radiotherapy at our hospital by transforming them into the character of their choice’ Leeds Children’s Hospital

The Science Museum’s Learning team has also created impressive 3D-scanned 300+ models of some of the objects as online Number of new resources for teachers. acquisitions in the Medicine galleries Medicine gave the museum an opportunity to update our collection of contemporary medical technology. As well as showcasing the existing collection, the curatorial team ‘Santa Medicina is a identified and acquired new objects for the permanent collection. These include the magnificent fusion of all first robotic surgery equipment used on that the new galleries a live patient, a tiny MRI scanner used for seek to portray... the premature babies and a 3D-printed kidney. kindness that matters as The new galleries also allowed us to much as technology, and develop an oral history project, led by our the faith, hope and love dedicated team of volunteers. The team that is as crucial a part recorded and transcribed 32 new oral Right A circular of the treatment as the histories. These testimonies were given display of human gall bladder stones medicine, the surgery, by medical practitioners and patients – Below The Medicine extracts of them are used in the gallery and Bodies gallery the chemotherapy or and will be available online and at our explores what we know about the human body the incubator’ National Collections Centre. They include and, right, Faith, Hope the voices of pioneers of ultrasound and and Fear examines the Joanna Moorhead, The Tablet robotic surgery, doctors working in cancer cultural aspects of health and medicine research, and those using diagnostic tools or complex drug treatments for conditions Far right A cabinet such as cystic fibrosis. of curiosities (the Wunderkammer), displays 1,000 But perhaps the most important element objects from Sir Henry of Medicine are the voices of ordinary Wellcome’s collection people, which appear throughout the galleries in audio and visual presentations. Funders Medicine: These form a rich and moving tapestry of The Wellcome Galleries our relationship with our own health and has been generously mortality, those we care for and those who supported by Wellcome, National Lottery look after us. We hear from people with Heritage Fund, GSK, mental health issues, those recovering The Wolfson Foundation, from serious brain injuries, an eye surgeon Vitabiotics, Art Fund, Stavros Niarchos working in Uganda, and a person explaining Foundation, Britford what it is like to live with terminal cancer. Bridge Trust, Dr Martin It is this personal element that brings the Schoernig, Medical Sciences Historical human touch to medicine – and to our Society and an wonderful new permanent galleries. anonymous donor

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VISION 2025 AND YORK CENTRAL VISION 2025 AND YORK CENTRAL

Vision 2025, our plan to transform the 1.2m £18.6m National Railway Museum in York and expand Locomotion in Shildon, Number of annual The amount the visitors the National government has is on its way to becoming a reality Railway Museum’s agreed to invest new Central Hall will in Vision 2025 be able to welcome

‘The brief combined three of our passions – museum architecture, great railway architecture of the 19th century and working in Yorkshire. Central Hall is both a tremendous challenge and a unique opportunity to create a new face and connected experience for the museum. We can’t wait to start work with such a fantastic client‘ Fergus Feilden, director, Feilden Fowles architects

One of the most significant and famous Just a month after Rocket arrived in York, from 76 international teams to create the objects in the history of locomotion – the government strengthened that growing £16.5 million building. Feilden Fowles’s and in modern civilisation – arrived at sense of confidence when it announced an most recent project, The Weston visitor the National Railway Museum in York in £18.6 million investment in the museum. It centre at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, was September 2019. Rocket, a superstar of was a milestone in realising a £55 million shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize. RIGHT the Group’s collection, is now at home fundraising target for Vision 2025, a vote alongside other titans of railway history. of confidence in our plans and it will The firm was chosen by the jury for the be a springboard for the next phase of elegance of its designs, which draw The arrival of Rocket was a powerful development. sympathetically on the history of our site. statement of our ambition and a symbolic Inspired by working railway buildings, the moment in our journey towards Vision From extensive landscaping of South Yard, concept features locomotive ‘roundhouses’ 2025, a plan that will see us become the to the creation of an interactive Wonderlab with a central two-storey rotunda. Clad in ‘World’s Railway Museum’. The £55 million gallery and redisplaying the famous Great recycled copper and featuring high glazed project to transform our museums at York Hall, the Vision 2025 masterplan comprises ceilings, the design will allow us to reduce and Shildon will reimagine the inspirational projects that will transform the National our carbon footprint by 80%. The Group is ON TRACK story of the railways for future generations. Railway Museum into a world-class visitor working with a world-class team, who will It is fitting that this will be achieved in the attraction. help us to create a new landmark building same year the National Railway Museum for York. celebrates its 50th birthday and the But the goal of Vision 2025 is to create Stockton and Darlington Railway is 200 two world-class railway museums, and On a practical level, the 4,500sq-metre years old. in January we announced the most Central Hall will connect the existing significant redevelopment at Locomotion, Great Hall and Station Hall buildings and In the past year, the dream of Vision 2025 in Shildon, since it opened in 2004. provide additional capacity to welcome began to become a reality. In March 2019, up to 1.2 million visitors annually. But just York Central received outline planning A £4.5 million plan will see the as important as these functional aspects permission, a milestone in a regeneration construction of the new 4,000sq-metre is the Central Hall’s role in showcasing the project that will profoundly affect Building Two, close to the existing visitor future of rail engineering. our museum and the city of York. The centre, which will almost double the National Railway Museum’s Vision 2025 amount of covered space available to The National Railway Museum has always development is poised to become the the public. The building will house up to been adept at bringing the past to life – cultural anchor of the wider York Central 40 vehicles from the national collection, preserving, conserving and celebrating scheme, a 45-hectare development bringing the total number of rail vehicles at what has been. But that role is changing. created in partnership with Network Rail, Locomotion to more than 100. To remain relevant, Central Hall and Homes England, City of York Council and Vision 2025 must link that past to what is the museum. Back in York, it is hard to overstate the happening today, and inspire our visitors importance of the Central Hall to the with what will be possible tomorrow. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to museum’s future. It will unify the site, transform the Leeman Road area of the connect historic railway buildings and city; the redevelopment of former railway provide a beautiful new welcome area for land will create 2,500 homes, 20% of our visitors. In March, a jury convened by Opposite British architects Feilden Fowles beat stiff competition from 76 international firms to which will be affordable, and a commercial Dame Mary Archer, Group chair, selected create the elegant new £16.5 million Central Hall. quarter creating up to 6,500 jobs. the UK-based architects Feilden Fowles The design is inspired by a locomotive ‘roundhouse’

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LOCOMOTION MANCHESTER RESTORATION

18,500 THE REVOLUTION Number of hours it RAILWAY has taken to erect scaffolding in the Power Hall in STARTS HERE order to install 1,220 metres of RENAISSANCE specialist alloy beams for the roof

A new building at Locomotion will transform the museum for visitors, and build on Shildon’s reputation as the ‘cradle of the railways’

‘This town, and the railway Ambitious plans to expand the site at Built on a brownfield site adjacent to the that runs through it, Locomotion, our beautiful railway museum existing site, the new 4,000sq-metre The restoration of our Manchester museum, changed the world forever. in Co Durham, are in development that Building Two will allow us to double the which occupies a historic railway site, comes will transform the experience for visitors amount of collection items on display and For here was the genesis of to fruition over the coming year, and and inspire a new generation to learn give us the opportunity to show more non- includes a beautiful new exhibition space the modern railway and to more about the transport technology vehicle objects. Together with the existing now have Locomotion at that changed the world. collection building, and better displays in our Grade II-listed warehouse its heart is a privilege’ across the whole site, it will enable us to Locomotion takes inspiration from its tell a more involved and coherent story of Tim Dunn, railway historian and broadcaster location in Shildon, which has a special the railway industry from its earliest days place in railway history. Near to the far in Shildon to the present, and highlight The Science and Industry Museum stands The Power Hall Above The Power Below Impression of on one of the most important industrial The £7.5 million Power Hall project includes Hall, which celebrates the new £5 million end of the site is the place from where, in both its national and international impact. the golden age of Special Exhibition September 1825, Locomotion No. 1 hauled heritage sites in Europe. Indeed, many major roof repairs and a renovation and steam, is undergoing a Gallery, designed by the first steam-powered passenger train The new building will cement Shildon’s would claim that it started a technology rethink of the gallery space. Built in 1855 £7.5 million renovation Carmody Groarke on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. standing as the world’s first railway town revolution which led to the birth of the as the shipping shed for Liverpool Road and Locomotion as an essential museum modern world. Our visitors can walk station, the hall houses Europe’s largest Shildon is also the place where some of to visit for anyone who is interested in through the oldest surviving passenger collection of working steam engines. When the earliest train tickets were sold and the history of the railways and how they railway station and railway warehouse, a it reopens in two years’ time, visitors will be ‘Everyone who visits will where some of the earliest locomotives changed the world. place that was crucial to the emergence able to experience the sounds and smells understand how what of Manchester as the first industrial city. of the great age of steam and explore the were constructed. The town was home to happened here changed the the world's first railway company works Funder Durham County Council personal stories of the people who lived and at one point it also accommodated A multimillion-pound restoration project is through it. We will show how Manchester world. We can’t wait to see the largest sidings in the world. Often under way to carry out crucial conservation provided the power that changed not only where this journey takes us’ called ‘the cradle of the railways’, and restoration work to the site. We will the city but also the world around us today. Sally MacDonald, director, Shildon can justly claim to be the open up new spaces and create a more Science and Industry Museum world’s first railway town. sustainable museum to provide inspiring Forty years ago, the museum was a catalyst science, heritage and cultural experiences for the regeneration of Castlefield, the for everyone. The renovated museum will world’s first urban heritage park. Now, reveal how Manchester’s know-how shaped alongside our partners at Manchester the globe and our lives today, and remind International Festival and The Factory, Funders Power Hall: Department for Digital, Culture, visitors that they too can have ideas that a new events space in the heart of the Media and Sport, Atmos International, Zochonis change the path of history. city, we are helping to create an exciting Charitable Trust, Sally MacDonald. Special Exhibition Gallery: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and city destination with culture at its heart. Sport, Wellcome, Garfield Weston Foundation, Kirby Special Exhibition Gallery Revolution, after all, is in our DNA. Laing Foundation, Zochonis Charitable Trust Our new £5 million Special Exhibition Gallery will create and host some of the world’s most exciting science exhibitions. Designed by the award-winning architects Carmody Groarke, this beautiful new space is in our Grade II-listed New Warehouse, built in 1882. In the coming year we will reveal the grandeur and scale of this historic gallery for the first time, where visitors will be able to enjoy innovative exhibition experiences. The gallery will help to shift the centre of gravity of the Science Museum Group north, and Manchester will be able to launch major exhibitions that will also tour the Group.

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SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABILITY

‘The five museums in the SMG are uniquely The Group has also committed to planting placed to engage a huge audience around 1,000 native trees annually at our National Collections Centre at Wroughton alongside the science of climate change’ the 43,000 trees we have already planted. Sir Ian Blatchford, Group director In 2020, our partner for our tree planting will be the Woodland Trust.

Within the Group, we have introduced carbon literacy training to support our colleagues as they move to a more sustainable future, from explanations of the science behind climate change to GREENER ‘action training’ for managers to identify Above left and right practical ways to cut emissions. Beehives and a bat box support local wildlife At each of our sites, we will be creating Left Our bees enjoy an orchard in Kent local sustainability action plans by the end AND before they arrive at of 2020 to build on the work of our local the Science Museum Sustainability Guiding Teams who have Below right Beehave, by Marlène Huissoud, is focused on specific and practical actions a beehive shaped like to make our organisation more sustainable. a log that will feature Through the South Kensington Group, in a permanent gallery CLEANER on agriculture in the for example, we have rolled out waste Science Museum. It management training and introduced was commissioned by recycling for gloves. our director, Sir Ian Blatchford The Group’s first new Sustainability Strategy Finally, the Science Museum is thrilled to will ensure all our museums and sites are be providing hives for our very own honey bees in 2020. Furthermore, across the on a journey towards significantly cutting Group, we will increase areas of wild flowers our carbon emissions for bees and other foraging insects.

Sir Ian Blatchford, Group director, says: ‘There is no more pressing issue facing When it comes to the most pressing engagement around climate change and Above Environmental the world, and the five museums in the challenge facing the planet, we have an sustainability within the cultural heritage initiatives at our Science Museum Group are uniquely National Collections obligation to both set an example and lead sector and so it is right that by the end of Centre site in placed to engage a huge audience around the way as a group of world-class science 2020 we will set an ambitious science- Wroughton include barn the science of climate change, and the museums. We aim to engage our five based target by the end of the year.' owl boxes technological challenges and solutions Right Aerial view of the million-plus visitors and 11 million digital National Collections around the crucial energy and food audience with the science of climate A Sustainability Strategy will be launched Centre, which has one transitions we need to achieve. Our visitors change, mitigation and adaptation, along around the end of 2020 by which time of the largest solar are the engaged citizens and scientists of farms in the UK with the technologies to manage the global independent consultants will have verified now and tomorrow.’ transition to a low carbon future, from the carbon emissions that we have already energy storage to carbon capture. calculated and also provided us with clarity on carbon emissions from all we procure. The science of climate change is clear. We can then explore where we can make Radical decarbonisation is needed to limit further greenhouse gas emissions savings the global temperature rise to no more in line with our new target. While all our than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels by electricity is already purchased from the end of the century, a target set out renewable sources, there is still much more two years ago in a special report from we want to do, including: decarbonising the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on our heating; reducing our energy Climate Change. consumption and cutting our carbon emissions from travel by introducing high- To meet this challenge, and embed quality video-conferencing across our sustainability across our sites, the sites, which has already been accelerated Science Museum Group set up an external as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and Sustainability Advisory Board this year, implementing a cycle-to-work scheme. chaired by the Science Museum’s deputy director, Julia Knights. Knights, a soil We also aim to cut our reliance on single- and climate scientist, is also our Group use plastics and disposable cups in our executive lead for our Sustainability cafés and shops, and install more water Strategy, and says: ‘The Science Museum fountains to encourage colleagues and Group aims to be a leader in public visitors to use reusable water bottles.

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TOP SECRET TOP SECRET

206,450 Number of people who booked to see the exhibition at the BRAIN Science Museum OF BRITAIN The intriguing world of British intelligence and cyber security was revealed in the Science Museum’s thrilling exhibition Top Secret, timed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of GCHQ ‘Most cipher machines are destroyed when they come out of use. We have Last spring, the Science Museum welcomed secret. On display are Fullerphone sets Right The exhibition Her Majesty The Queen to announce used in the trenches during the First featured more than opened up more here at 100 objects from the opening of a blockbuster exhibition World War, a Soviet agent radio set GCHQ’s collections, the Science Museum than exploring 100 years of communications abandoned in a field in Wales in the 1960s, including items that we have ever opened up intelligence and security: Top Secret: From and an encryption key used by HM The had never been seen by the public before to anybody before’ Ciphers to Cyber Security. Queen to keep her telephone calls secure in the 1990s. Tony Comer, GCHQ historian The exhibition ran from July to February and was a great success, receiving The exhibition also includes three enthusiastic press reviews and achieving different German Enigma cipher machines, record-breaking ticket bookings. Top famously decrypted by Alan Turing and Secret will open at the Science and other code-breakers at Bletchley Park, Industry Museum in Manchester in the alongside cipher machines never next year, where it is sure to prove just exhibited in public before, such as as popular. 5-UCO. Previously believed to have been destroyed, this is one of the first in 1944. This helped to bring the Allies voice communications secure between of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre Top Secret also contains an interactive Coinciding with the centenary of the UK’s electronic and fully unbreakable cipher one step closer to winning the war. President John F Kennedy and Prime (NCSC) in combatting them. Visitors can puzzle zone, giving visitors of all ages intelligence, security and cyber agency, machines, developed to handle secret Minister Harold Macmillan during the hear from the individuals carrying out top- the opportunity to test their own code- GCHQ, Top Secret explores the challenges messages during the Second World War, Top Secret also tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. secret work to defend the UK from terror breaking ability and discover first-hand of maintaining digital security in the including the transmission of Bletchley spycraft technology used by Peter and attacks and serious crime. the skills required to succeed in the 21st century and the ground-breaking Park’s decrypted Enigma messages to Helen Kroger, such as one-time pads, By the 1980s, secure telephone systems world of GCHQ. technologies that have been used by the British military in the field. powerful spy radio sets and microdots, were portable. The show includes Margaret Displays include the remains of the GCHQ throughout its history. where secret documents were shrunk Thatcher’s famous ‘briefcase telephone’ crushed hard drive – alleged to have The Science Museum hosted a series Visitors can also discover the Lorenz down to the size of a full stop. Until their which was used to communicate the contained confidential US security of events inspired by the topics in the Through more than 100 objects, including cipher machine, a German example that arrest in 1961, the Krogers were part of course of action to the Ministry of Defence information – used by The Guardian to exhibition. These included the London items from GCHQ’s collections that have was more complex and secure than the Portland Spy Ring, one of the most during the Falklands War in 1982. store information stolen and leaked by premiere of The Great Hack, a documentary never been seen in public, interactive Enigma, and which was used to keep successful Soviet espionage operations in Edward Snowden in 2013, and a computer about Cambridge Analytica, a panel puzzles and first-person interviews, the the German military command’s Britain during the Cold War. Contemporary artefacts in the exhibition infected with the WannaCry ransomware discussion about the future of quantum free exhibition reveals fascinating stories communications secure. Mistakes made highlight current security threats, such as that, in 2017, affected thousands of computing, and a special Lates, our adult of communications intelligence and cyber by a German radio operator while using The Cold War saw the invention of those posed by cyber attacks, and the role organisations, including the NHS. evenings, inspired by Top Secret. security from the past century. this machine enabled staff at Bletchley technologies that proved crucial to the UK, Park to break into the cipher using including the Pickwick telephone – at the Funders Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Raytheon, Avast, DXC Technology, QinetiQ, The Hintze Family Charitable Foundation, Keith Thrower, Top Secret tracks the evolution of Colossus, the first semi-programmable cutting edge of innovation at the time – Sir Ian Blatchford and Jeremy Rosenblatt, with special thanks to Michael Spencer and NEX Group. Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Raytheon technologies used to keep messages digital electronic computer, introduced which was developed to keep transatlantic will continue to support the exhibition when it opens at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester Media partner The Telegraph

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LEARNING LEARNING

‘I was delighted to spend quality time 1,462 with the Science Museum Group Academy. I enjoyed a great conversation Number of teachers and a truly constructive exchange of and museum eductors the ideas with teachers and I think we all SMG Academy learned a lot from one another’ has trained LEADER Peter Tabichi, winner of the 2019 Global Teacher Prize

40,000 Instances of audience OF THE participation at PACK Hello Universe

The Group’s wide-ranging educational Left The Group's Above Young people at initiatives across all its museums are displays have always the We Make London placed a very high workshop, part of helping to improve scientific literacy priority on engaging Science City at the and promote careers in science young minds Science Museum

FAMILY-CENTRED ACTIVITIES The National Science and Media Museum’s Hello Universe exhibition invited visitors 96% to look up and fuel their curiosity, imagine remote galaxies and wonder who – or what Over our – is out there. A family programme ensured STEM/industry the exhibition was relevant to all ages. The professionals target star attraction was a Lego-building activity where visitors could design and build a different space vehicle each day. The best entries went on display in the museum.

Since we opened our Children’s Gallery SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP ACADEMY In 2019, the Academy announced its Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, joined resources, which will support and Meanwhile, at the Science and Industry in 1931, we have believed in the power Since its launch in 2018, the Science Science Capital in Practice programme, the programme. Organisations received a inspire maths communication and Museum, the May Bank Holiday saw the of informal learning to inspire future Museum Group Academy has provided in partnership with the Association of small grant, training, mentoring support enjoyment of the subject among return of the popular family making-and- generations. Today, the five museums more than 2,000 teachers, museum Science and Discovery Centres. and resources to help incorporate this schools and educators. tinkering weekend, MakeFest. Nearly 100 in our Group are visited by more than educators, scientists and industry learning more broadly into their STEM makers delivered hands-on activities 600,000 children each year in booked professionals with science engagement ‘Science capital’ is a measure of a engagement activities. These developments are just a few designed to encourage innovation to more educational groups; we also visit schools training. It is the UK’s first dedicated person’s knowledge of science and their ways in which the Academy has than 6,000 visitors, from building a giant and communities, and organise festivals, centre of excellence for informal science, attitude towards it, and the goal of the In another promising collaboration, which already exceeded our expectations, geodome and engineering a 15-metre training and events. In 2019, we honed our technology, engineering and mathematics initiative is to establish a ‘community of began in January 2020, MathWorks, and is showing that informal learning bridge to coding miniature robots and learning strategy so we can do even more (STEM) education, and aims to help good practice’ to help increase diversity the mathematical computing software has the power to build a scientifically laser-engraving key rings. to nurture the diverse talents of young individuals, schools and institutions and inclusion in STEM subjects. Fifteen company, began a partnership with the literate society. people to solve the challenges that society communicate their subjects to their pupils science centres, including Glasgow Academy to establish a maths-focused Funders MakeFest was supported by the Royal faces, from Covid-19 to climate change. and audiences more effectively. Science Centre, the Eden Project and engagement training course, with learning Funders bp and MathWorks Academy of Engineering

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LEARNING LEARNING

Left A child takes LEARNING RESOURCES STEM AMBASSADORS HIGHLIGHTING RESEARCH part in an activity at the Bradford Science The Group's Learning team unveiled STEM Ambassadors are volunteers who The Platform for Investigation, a Festival an exciting range of resources and study or work in STEM and help bring programme of monthly events showcasing programming aligned with the Science the subjects to life for young people. A STEM research, hands-on activities and Museum’s beautiful new Medicine northern network of these volunteers, demonstrations, engaged 22,000 visitors galleries. Schools and families visiting the Transpennine STEM Ambassador Hub, at the Science and Industry Museum and the space can use the gallery guide and which the Group delivers on behalf of off site at the Festival of Manchester and activity trails to support the experience. STEM Learning, has been developing two Big Bang North West, allowing families to Additionally, 17 objects from the collection projects with primary schools. The first, discover together today’s cutting-edge were 3D-scanned to create digital in collaboration with All About STEM in research and how it affects our lives. interactive models. These are featured in Merseyside and Cheshire, launched a STEM Supported by Siemens, the Platform for an online resource that allows students to and literacy initiative that lends books Investigation partnered with the European explore each object in detail, even if they to schools. The hub is also working with Southern Observatory, the Royal Northern 14,300 are not able to visit the galleries in person. more than 90 primary schools to deliver an College of Music and the Institution of Meanwhile, the outreach team is offering engineering project funded by the Royal Civil Engineers. Number of people a Medical Marvels session to help young Academy of Engineering. Fifty ambassador who engaged with people engage with objects from the engineers are being recruited for this Funder Siemens Future Engineers medical handling collection in their own project, which aims to raise aspirations classroom or community space. around engineering in Category 5 and 6 local authority education districts. STEM ‘Terrific evening of art, BRADFORD SCIENCE FESTIVAL TRAINS AND BRAINS IN YORK At the end of November, an evening event Ambassadors also engaged young people science, performance, talks LATES In July, the National Science and Media Future Engineers, a problem-solving for teachers was held in the gallery to with engineering opportunities available and crafts all creatively The Science Museum has had a strong Museum hosted the third Bradford Science event to inspire budding young scientists, promote the resources and programming to them through a series of Everyday season of Lates, our adult evenings, Festival. Celebrating both the 50th entered its fourth year at the National created to support educational visits. Engineers activities at the Science and blended together, all throughout the year. In July, we celebrated anniversary of the Moon landing and the Railway Museum with an October half- Teachers explored the galleries over drinks Industry Museum over October half term. designed to ease the mind the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings 150th year of the periodic table, it was a term programme on the topic of forces. and medicine-themed nibbles and enjoyed Activities included meeting engineers, and improve well-being’ with more than 20 events, including a hugely popular event that saw a 17% boost This explored concepts such as gravity, air interactive activities. skills development and the role of discussion on conspiracy theories and the in visitor numbers. Highlights included resistance and pressure in the context of engineering in our everyday lives. It Darren Henley, chief executive, Arts Council future of space travel to Mars. In August, the Nova 2 rocket displayed in Centenary the railways. It offered a range of activities, Funders Wellcome, National Lottery Heritage attracted a total of 2,690 participants. England, on the Lates event at the Science we focused on the Driverless exhibition, Fund and GSK Square, two displays of 360-degree including our signature Engineer Like and Industry Museum in Manchester including a collaboration between the journeys to Mars in the Broadway Shopping Me gameshow, the Pressure Zone, where Funders The engineering project is supported by Centre for Connected and Autonomous the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Everyday Centre, It’s A Chem-Mystery! workshops, participants discovered how engineers Engineers education programme is supported Vehicles, the Royal Academy of a Slime Bar presented by the University build tracks over different terrain, and the ‘It was wonderful to see by The Granada Foundation CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS Engineering’s National Engineering Policy of Bradford, a periodic table family trail Living Room, where visitors could relax in a these stories brought to life The Science Museum worked with young Centre and the Queen Elizabeth Prize for and STEM City, the interactive careers familiar space and discover the scientific in such a vivid way. You made people aged between 15 and 25 from Engineering looking at public perceptions element of the festival. Organised by the principles of everyday items. local boroughs to codevelop creative of driverless cars. In March 2019, we Transpennine STEM Ambassador Hub, STEM me think afresh about the Below Children explore Top right The Robot responses to Science City 1550–1800: The worked with UNESCO UK to showcase City hosted science demonstrations and The National Railway Museum also ones I thought I knew’ the history of the Railways activity at Linbury Gallery (see page 45). Creative its projects in the fields of science and railways through fun the National Railway offered career advice to young people. worked with rail companies and STEM collaborations between artists, performers, technology. More than 3,400 visitors found Ali Boyle, keeper of collections, Science group activities Museum Ambassadors (see opposite page) to Below right A UNESCO museum staff and young people, which out how ancient manuscripts were written Museum, after seeing the youth theatre Funders Players of People's Postcode Lottery, The deliver the Engineering Hub, cultivating Lates event at the began in September 2018, resulted in and how to track floods, map the deep sea Broadway Shopping Centre, Surfachem, University performance inspired by Science City Science Museum of Bradford and Royal Society of Chemistry relationships with industry contacts, several exciting creative achievements: a floor and chart the Earth. including Network Rail as a new funder of film, a fanzine, a theatre performance and the programme. In addition, the museum ceramic artworks – all exploring themes of Manchester’s popular Lates programme began a new schools workshop called place, craft and entrepreneurship. included Culture Cure, in which visitors Robot Railways. Its aim is to inspire explored the connections between arts students with the real-life applications A film screening of the young people’s and health with a packed schedule of of computing in a workshop. Students work, North Kensington: A World in Itself, laughter workshops, performances, program their own robot railway using took place during the 2019 Exhibition Road wearable sculptures and more. block code, test and improve their coding Festival. Young people also took part in designs and discover how computers are craft workshops with the artist Janetka used on modern railways. Eight hundred Platun, while youth actors from the Lyric students have participated so far. Hammersmith summer school researched and developed a performance inspired by Funders Future Engineers was funded by Angel the gallery. Focusing on the Royal Society Trains, Network Rail, Eversholt UK Rails Group, and Porterbrook and key scientists of the era, it enjoyed three sold-out shows, and later performed at the museum’s September opening of 40,000 Science City. Number of visitors the Bradford Funders The Linbury Trust, supported by the Science Festival National Lottery Heritage Fund, with additional Left A child in light support from the DCMS/Wolfson Museums and welcomed over glasses at the Science Galleries Improvement Fund, with special thanks four days and Industry Museum's to the John S Cohen Foundation and Iain and MakeFest event Jane Bratchie

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COVID-19 £50 NOTE

‘March saw the highest ever ‘One who stands in comparison to Newton and number of visitors to our Darwin. Alan Turing had a profound impact on collection website’ science, computing and on the history of this CRISIS country. A powerful symbol of the long overdue recognition he deserves’ RESPONSE Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind 50,000 Although our museums were obliged to close during Number of readers the Covid-19 pandemic, our online collection, learning per month of 227,299 resources, fun activities and weekly blogs were more science director popular than ever, keeping the public well informed, Roger Highfield’s Number of engaged and entertained during lockdown weekly blog nominations the Bank of England received; 989 eligible names were put forward With visitor numbers ahead of target, the Just as our exhibitions and wider public in person, the Science Museum Group Science Museum Group was into the final programme have been a central part of has found innovative ways of bringing its month of another successful year when public engagement around global threats collections to us. It has also chronicled activity across our six sites was stopped in such as climate change and antibiotic the UK’s response to the coronavirus its tracks by the novel coronavirus. While resistance, so we will play a key role in crisis through thoughtful collection shutting the doors of our museums was a helping future generations to explore the and scholarship.’ necessary part of an international effort impact and innovations of the coronavirus to contain the pandemic, our collection pandemic. Our curatorial response has As our curators began the collecting A NOTABLE remained open and audiences took been swift but sensitive. Colleagues from project with seriousness and within strict digital delight in our informal learning across the Group are researching the ethical guidelines, our organisation sought Above Mark Carney Right Alan Turing, the at the Science and renowned code-breaker resources and the online games we have stories and identifying the objects that out other small ways to support the Industry Museum, where and computer pioneer, developed, exploring science from their will help us to explore the medical and monumental work of care workers. Personal he announced the was chosen as the new kitchens and living rooms. March saw the scientific responses to the outbreak and protective equipment was sent to the winning nominee face on the £50 note GENIUS highest ever number of visitors to our to chronicle its wider impacts on our London Ambulance Service, York Hospital collection website. society and culture. This ranges from and Salford Royal Hospital. Glycerol innovations in respiratory equipment and hydrogen peroxide, usually used in All eyes were on Manchester’s Science stripped of his security clearance and lost reveal. It’s especially appropriate that the As we ignited the curiosity of tomorrow’s and research into a Covid-19 vaccine to experiments by the Science Museum’s and Industry Museum last July to witness his post-war consultancy to GCHQ – and announcement took place in Manchester, scientists and engineers at home, the ephemera such as public health posters. Learning team, were dispatched to Imperial Mark Carney, then governor of the Bank of cruelly punished. as Alan Turing worked here from 1948 as pandemic illustrated the critical value of Hospitals Trust to make hand sanitiser for England, reveal which scientist would be deputy director of Manchester University’s scientific endeavour today; a story Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: key workers and patients. And in Bradford, celebrated on the new £50 note. Turing was a mathematician, logician, Computing Machine Laboratory. brought to life for our audiences through ‘With all of us spending more time at home, the National Science and Media Museum’s cryptanalyst and philosopher, best known a weekly blog by our science director, our museums have been adept at finding Learning team distributed activity sheets Following a six-week period, in which the for his work as the code-breaker whose ‘He did most of his creative thinking during Roger Highfield, that reached more than new ways to inspire and inform. Although to primary schoolchildren, some of whom public made over a quarter of a million work was crucial in enabling the Allies to those years – grappling with the question 50,000 people in a month. it hasn't been possible to explore them do not have access to the internet. nominations, covering almost 1,000 defeat the Nazis; it is widely thought that of whether machines can think (the early scientists whose work has shaped how he helped to shorten the Second World foundations of AI) and exploring the we think about the world, a shortlist of 12 War, thereby saving millions of lives. mysteries of patterns in nature – all ideas candidates was decided by a committee. that continue to inspire discovery today.’ Carney then whittled that list down to Turing is also renowned for his efforts one extraordinary individual: Alan Turing to lay the mathematical foundations NOTABLES: THE SHORTLIST (1912-54), the mathematical genius and of the modern computer. Some of his William and Caroline Herschel, computing pioneer. most important work was conducted in astronomers; Charles Babbage and Manchester, where the campaign began Ada Lovelace, computer pioneers; The news was reported all over the world to clear his conviction, in 1952, for Mary Anning, fossil hunter; James Clerk within minutes of the announcement. homosexual acts. The verdict ultimately Maxwell, unifier of science; Stephen Turing dominated the trending tables on led to his death aged 41. Hawking, cosmologist; Ernest Rutherford, Twitter, and thousands tweeted using the founder of nuclear physics; Paul Dirac, hashtag #Turing50. Turing, along with 11 other shortlisted theoretical physicist; Srinivasa Ramanujan, names for the new banknote, were mathematician; Dorothy Hodgkin, The public celebration of his nomination also celebrated in Notables, a special first British female Nobel prizewinner; was particularly poignant because Turing’s exhibition at our Manchester museum. Sally Frederick Sanger, double Nobel work was overshadowed during his lifetime MacDonald, director of the Science and prizewinner; Rosalind Franklin, Above The Group is acquiring the ‘Stay Home, by a prosecution for homosexuality that Industry Museum, said: ‘We were thrilled to DNA pioneer; Alan Turing, mathematician Protect the NHS, Save Lives’ lectern message saw him professionally sidelined – he was be the venue for the £50 note character and cryptanalyst.

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WIDESCREEN WEEKEND PICTUREVILLE

‘I love this museum – it is actually the first place where I ever saw an IMAX THE REEL THING film, when I was 10. I love the history of film so it Widescreen Weekend returned to our Bradford museum to is always great to get an revive the golden era of cinema on the super-big screen and excuse to come back here’ look at the past, present and future of immersive technologies Stephen Slater, archive producer for the documentary Apollo 11 ‘Isn’t it great to see movies projected as they were supposed to be? I love... the bigness of it and the boldness of it and the collective cinema experience – it is wonderful’ Christopher Frayling, writer and broadcaster

Pictureville is the only venue in Europe where Cinerama, IMAX, 70mm, 35mm and digital 4K formats CINEMA can be seen under one roof

‘Every year I am always stunned by the Above Audiences enjoyed classic films immersive theatrical experience of the such as The Sound big screens and formats. One of the of Music Above 3D is just one Right Director Clio of many viewing biggest joys for me about Widescreen Barnard received a experiences available at ‘Brafta’ from Bradford COMES the Pictureville cinema Weekend is the audience’ UNESCO City of Film in our Bradford museum Samira Ahmed, journalist and broadcaster

The world’s greatest celebration of large- 1960s, such as Cinerama, in which three women in front of and behind the camera. format cinema proved more successful 35mm films are combined to produce one Notable protagonists who featured in HOME than ever in 2019, breaking attendance sweeping vista across a curved screen, and the event ranged from Okoye, the Marvel records for the second year in a row. CinemaScope. These systems ushered in a Comics character, and Shuri, the Black Widescreen Weekend, at the National thrilling new era in film, and kick-started Panther super-heroine, to Rita Moreno, The National Science and Media Museum outside the USA (see opposite page museum’s activities, continuing its work Science and Media Museum, drew a total a battle among the Hollywood studios for the first Hispanic actress to win an Oscar has relaunched its pioneering cinemas as for details of the Widescreen Weekend with partners such as Bradford UNESCO audience of 5,000 people – an impressive supremacy in widescreen cinema. (for Best Supporting Actress in West Side a fully independent operation. Rebranded festival). It was followed by the opening City of Film as a venue for high-profile rise of 15% on the previous year. Story), and the late, great Doris Day. as Pictureville, collectively named after the of the 100-seat Cubby Broccoli screen in and community-led events, and wowing To give audiences a flavour of the museum’s celebrated 300-seat theatre, 1996 and, together, these three screens audiences with the latest IMAX hits. The festival celebrates the past, present experience, Widescreen Weekend showed Finally, to celebrate the future of film- its three screens continue to deliver an have not only offered a programme and future of film with a showcase of an advert for a 1959 Renault Dauphine on making, a special ‘Brafta’ was presented eclectic programme for fans of the biggest unrivalled by any other venue in the UK, Mark Cutmore, head of commercial glorious widescreen formats and cinema the Cinerama screen – one of only two to Clio Barnard, director of The Selfish blockbuster and arthouse releases, as but have also welcomed world-famous experiences at the Group, says: technologies – our Bradford museum is short films made using this process. And, Giant, on the last day of the festival well as having a greater focus on museum actors, directors and other prominent ‘Relaunching as Pictureville means uniquely well equipped to show these to for the first time, the festival introduced by Bradford UNESCO City of Film. audiences and local communities. guests to give talks and Q&As about their cinema is not only fully integrated into their best effect. the Immersive Encounters Dome Cinema, work in the industry. the museum’s offer, it is catering for an a 360-degree screen that welcomed 650 Film exhibition has a long history at the expanded range of audiences and has huge Audiences can see an unrivalled selection visitors over four days. museum: when the venue opened in 1983 As a five-year partnership with potential for driving revenue. The unique of movies, from the latest releases to it gave Europe its first permanent IMAX Picturehouse Cinemas came to an end in facilities we offer, a new membership classics from Hollywood’s golden era At a time when women’s contributions screen. At 60ft high, it was the largest 2019, the museum took the opportunity scheme, and our championing of regionally across our three cinema screens: Cubby to cinema are being re-evaluated and cinema screen in the UK at the time, and it to take full control of these exceptional sourced food and drink make this a very Broccoli, IMAX (the first in Europe) and celebrated, last year saw the return remains one of the biggest in the country. theatres and open the city’s only truly exciting venture.’ Funders Film Hub North (part of BFI Film Audience Pictureville. The festival also shows super- of Women in Widescreen, a celebration of Network), City of Bradford Metropolitan District In 1992 the Pictureville screen opened, independent cinema. It is aligning wide formats developed in the 1950s and female-driven narratives and the work of Council, BFI Major Programmes home to the only public Cinerama screen its programme more closely with the Funder Film Hub North

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MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL MANCHESTER SCIENCE FESTIVAL

52 ‘Manchester Science Festival is one of the boldest, most creative and thought- Number of shipping provoking festivals in the country’ containers used to create a custom- Richard Leese, leader, Manchester City Council built structure for the immersive installation Left and right Distortions in Spacetime, by Marshmallow Laser Feast Below Mat Allen, 2018 Josh Award winner, talking with a family at his Touch the Stars event

1m Number of people THE SOUND the Manchester Science Festival has engaged over OF SCIENCE the past decade The Science and Industry Museum and the ‘Inventive and provocative’ Manchester International Festival joined forces The Sunday Times to stage an extraordinary art installation IDEAS FOR last year that set a benchmark for imaginative art-science programming A BETTER

Atmospheric Memory, a breathtaking, Montreal and Carolina Performing Arts us to highlight an iconic object from our immersive art environment created by the (the University of North Carolina at Chapel collection. Henry Babbage’s Analytical WORLD Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano- Hill). It welcomed more than 11,000 visitors Engine Mill, an early computer, was Hemmer, was one of the highlights of over 16 days. The project was funded by displayed during a ‘prelude’ exhibition in this year. From art commissions to the Manchester International Festival, the festival, with the Science and Industry the 1830 Warehouse. This was a valuable The Manchester Science Festival returns to immersive and participatory experiences, the biennial arts event that ran in July Museum’s contribution of £150,000 opportunity to present our collection focus on climate change, part of the Group’s outdoor one-off events to live debates, 2019. Inspired by the ideas of Charles funded entirely by a Wellcome Trust grant. through a different lens while opening up commitment to engage audiences in one of the festival will inform, engage and ignite Babbage, who suggested that the air spaces previously closed to the public. curiosity about climate change, one of the might be a ‘library’ of every word ever The installation was accompanied by the the most pressing issues of our time defining issues of the 21st century. spoken, and combining daring artwork and Atmospheric Memory education programme, Of the audience who came to see sensory performance, Lozano-Hemmer’s which engaged more than 600 KS2 primary Atmospheric Memory, 86% had already Manchester Science Festival will open spectacular installation scoured the schoolchildren from 10 schools across visited the Science and Industry Museum – The Manchester Science Festival, Climate Action, which was launched by ahead of the 26th United Nations atmosphere for voices, transforming them Greater Manchester. The Young Guides an indication that there is a strong appetite which is produced by the Science and Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the Science Convention on Climate Change (COP26) into things people could see and touch. initiative was also hugely successful and for art-science programming of this type. Industry Museum, has created a place Museum in London in February. Guests in Glasgow in 2021, when world leaders Twenty of his artworks were shown within a encouraged secondary schoolchildren to for innovative, surprising and meaningful included Sir David Attenborough and the and 30,000 delegates will convene to custom-built shipping-container structure develop presentation and conversation As a result of our involvement with experiences over the past 12 years where Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. develop an international response to the at the Science and Industry Museum, in skills and lead public-engagement Atmospheric Memory, we established a people of all ages can ignite their curiosity climate emergency. what The New York Times called ‘the most sessions. Atmospheric Memory also proved strong, productive working relationship in science. And its next edition will be no The Group is delighted that Manchester ambitious art project’ at the festival. popular with the museum’s volunteers, with with the Manchester International Festival, different, as the festival centres on one Science Festival, the largest science As the birthplace of the Industrial 369 (74% of our total volunteers) helping a collaboration that is particularly of the most urgent issues of our time: festival in the country, is set to return after Revolution, Manchester was the The installation was a major artistic the project to run smoothly. important in the run-up to the opening climate change. a pause in 2019. It is now officially running catalyst for scientific innovation and co-commission between the Science of The Factory, the festival’s permanent as a biennial event, with the majority of unprecedented change worldwide. Now, and Industry Museum, Manchester As well as showcasing the Science and world-class cultural space that will open The theme of the next Manchester Science activity concentrated at the museum’s with the city’s ambition to become carbon International Festival, FutureEverything, Industry Museum’s external spaces in a next door to the Science and Industry Festival was announced as part of the seven-acre city-centre site to enable neutral by 2038, and our commitment Elektra/Arsenal Contemporary Art, and fresh way, Atmospheric Memory allowed Museum in the coming years. Group’s major public programme focused audiences to enjoy more experiences in to engaging audiences in the role of on climate and solutions to the challenges one visit. It will also be themed around science in tackling urgent global problems, Funders Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Science and Industry Museum, FutureEverything, ELEKTRA/Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal facing the world. The programme is in one issue or subject. The festival will be a Manchester is primed to play its part in and Carolina Performing Arts – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Supported by Wellcome. Education programme supported by The Granada Foundation support of the government’s Year of cornerstone of the Group’s programme influencing future progress once more.

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STEM POWERHOUSE CUTTING CARBON

Many significant ‘I welcome the prime announcements minister’s announcement have been made of the UK Year of Climate at the Science Action and I hope it will and Industry Museum. In 2015, galvanise real change’ Chancellor George Sir David Attenborough, naturalist Osborne coined the term ‘Northern Powerhouse’ in a speech he gave here first country to industrialise. He added: ‘It is up to us to organise the nations of the world to do something about it.’

The Group’s museums are firmly committed to their role in this. Earlier that morning, Sir Ian Blatchford, Group director, announced Left Boris Johnson our own ambitious year of related events speaks in front of and activities. Climate will be the theme for Stephenson’s Rocket the next Manchester Science Festival, led by the Science and Industry Museum. The ‘I just want you to imagine, Science Museum will also present the UK’s first significant exhibition on carbon if we were to reconvene capture and storage. This will explore here 30, 40, 50 or more the latest techniques being developed THE CITY years hence, what treasures for removing carbon dioxide from the this museum might hold then’ atmosphere to mitigate climate change. Prime Minister Boris Johnson To mark the occasion, Sir David and Sir Ian planted a native cherry tree in our LEADING courtyard garden between the Wellcome Wolfson Building and our main museum. Johnson also described culture as one of Joining them were local schoolchildren, the four ingredients of success for the UK. Darren Moorcroft, chief executive of the Manchester is the UK’s most visited city Woodland Trust, and Julia Knights, deputy THE WAY after London, and the Science and Industry director of the Science Museum. The Museum is proud to play a critical part in CLIMATE result will be a beautiful grove of native its cultural life. We produce the country’s wild cherry, crabapple, hazel and rowan In his first speech as prime minister, Boris Johnson largest and most popular science festival, trees to provide food for birds and a changing schedule of exhibitions, and nectar for bees. came to our historic Manchester museum to praise are now also devising programmes with the city and its scientific pioneers and outline Manchester International Festival (see ACTION The ceremony was a symbolic nod to his vision to drive growth across Britain’s regions page 32), our future neighbours, to bring the 100 million trees that need to be world class arts and science attractions planted every year if the UK is to meet to the city. The Science Museum was delighted to host decision again because each delay makes commitments to cut emissions to zero Prime Minister Boris Johnson in February it so much harder to avert more damaging by 2050. These trees are in addition to In his first week of office, the prime vibrancy and importance of Manchester The Science and Industry Museum is also to celebrate the UK’s Year of Climate climate change. It is also important that the 43,000 native trees that the Science minister chose the Science and Industry itself: ‘We need to help places everywhere proud to be the home of the TransPennine Action and upcoming presidency of COP26 we all do our bit. That is why I welcome the Museum Group has already planted Museum to outline his ambitions to shape their cultural structure… time and STEM Ambassador Hub – a network of – the international climate summit to be prime minister’s announcement of the UK over the past decade at our National rebalance growth, productivity and power time again Manchester has shown the volunteers studying or working in STEM held at a date to be confirmed next year. Year of Climate Action and l hope it will Collections Centre in Wiltshire. across the UK. He was accompanied world what’s possible.’ (science, technology, engineering and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy galvanise real change. by Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State mathematics) who work with young also attended as co-host of this event, After the tree planting, the prime minister for Housing, Communities and Local It was a fitting spot for the prime minister people – which operates across Greater alongside more than 150 guests. 'I also look forward to seeing how the joined Sir David and Sir Ian for a climate Government; Grant Shapps, Secretary to make his important announcement, Manchester, West and North Yorkshire. Manchester Science Festival and the workshop with local schoolchildren in the of State for Transport; and Rishi Sunak, because Stephenson’s Rocket is an In Manchester we have more than 1,500 Speaking at the launch, Sir David Science Museum’s exhibition about carbon Exploring Space gallery. former Treasury secretary, now Chancellor iconic symbol of the city, and recently ambassadors working in our schools and Attenborough stressed that there is no capture spark discussion about how to of the Exchequer. returned here for the first time in over communities to support teachers and act time to waste on this issue. ‘The UN’s 26th protect our fragile planet.’ 180 years. Built to run on the Manchester as inspirational role models. Manchester’s Climate Change Conference in Glasgow Above Julia Knights, Group executive sustainability Speaking in the Revolution Manchester to Liverpool railway, Rocket’s technology digital, construction and health sectors is a critically important opportunity Sir David highlighted the UK’s goal to lead and Science Museum deputy director, Sir David gallery against the dramatic backdrop of paved the way for the first rail network, are booming, so recruiting young people for governments to act decisively – we achieve net-zero emissions, which was Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster, Darren Moorcroft, chief executive of the Woodland Trust, Stephenson’s Rocket, Boris Johnson paid shaping the course of history and the with STEM skills is vital to the future of the know what has to be done to cut carbon legislated last June, and said the UK must and Sir Ian Blatchford, Group director, plant a tree tribute not just to our museum but to the world we live in today. city’s economy and growth. emissions, and we can’t afford to put off a ‘lead the way’ globally given that it was the in the Science Museum’s courtyard garden

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CONTEMPORARY COLLECTING SOUND AND VISION

‘For our collection to be celebrated in the rich context of Sound and Vision, and in a UNESCO City of Film, is especially meaningful’ Tony Hall, director-general, BBC

A star piece in Jon Savage’s archive is the original cassette The dawn of technologies such as Because the museum’s collections are all tape from Arrow photography, film and sound recording about the changing ways in which we hear Sounds Studio, in the 19th century changed the world. and see the world, Sound and Vision has which contains TUNING Now, an exciting project is under way at the opportunity to engage and inspire one the recording of the National Science and Media Museum of the UK’s youngest, most diverse and Joy Division’s first in Bradford that will tell the story of how fastest-growing cities. Our world-class unreleased album IN sound and image technologies have collection of photography, radio, film, TV, transformed our lives and the way we sound and digital technologies ranges ‘For me, it’s always experience the world. from the earliest photography and the camera that captured the world’s first been essential that the TO OUR Sound and Vision, which will occupy moving images to the explosion in materials I’ve collected two new galleries at the museum, is internet streaming. go to institutions rather underpinned by three foundational ‘pillars’: than individuals. That way collections, participation and STEM In reaching out to new communities, Sound FUTURE (science, technology, engineering and and Vision hopes to increase museum visits they can be enjoyed by mathematics). The project will explore the and participation, and share our stories in everyone, particularly history of these technologies through our novel and inclusive ways. It will encourage young people, who can Two new permanent galleries collections; show our audiences how they different generations to explore aspects use them to understand at the National Science were made and used; and collaborate with of our national history, from how the city of advisers and local communities – young Bradford was photographed using tintype Clockwise from top Jon Savage and Jan Hicks, the unique personality of and Media Museum will archives manager at our Manchester museum; examine how sound and people, deaf people, and those living in and other early photographic methods, to Hacienda club membership card; original posters Manchester for themselves’ areas of complex deprivation – to ensure the rise of grime and drill music. promoting the Hacienda; an early copy of Joy image technologies have the galleries are relevant, communicate Division's Unknown Pleasures Jon Savage revolutionised our lives well, and have a lasting impact. Sound and Vision has been in development since we opened our ground-breaking Wonderlab gallery in 2017. We plan to open RECORD BREAKER the new galleries in 2023. 1880 Manchester was the world’s first industrial at the museum. Use Hearing Protection: about science and technology’s place in Year in which city, and its pre-eminence as a place of The Early Years of Factory Records will popular culture. The collections will also Shelford Bidwell’s invention, design and manufacture is firmly explore the label’s origins and influence ensure the museum is a leading resource Telephotographic rooted in its 19th-century growth. However, on Manchester’s emerging industries. for academics researching these subjects. Transmitter, which in the following century, with the decline It will also reveal the surprising ways in could send and of industry, the city took on a new which science, technology, engineering To help us achieve these goals, we recently receive images, character. Its altered economic landscape and mathematics are interwoven into our acquired Jon Savage’s archive of Joy was developed – prompted a culture of regeneration and lives and culture. Division material. Collected during his 110 years before reclamation, from which contemporary career as a music journalist and cultural the invention of technologies, digital innovation and a The exhibition will give visitors exclusive commentator, the archive tracks the the internet thriving arts scene emerged, as former access to previously unseen items from band’s progression from pioneering punk industrial sites were repurposed for new the Factory archives. Through a series of outfit to international icon, and its impact creative activities. engaging and interactive displays, it will on Manchester’s global music profile. amplify the stories of Manchester’s culture To reflect this important part of the city’s that gave rise to a new wave of creative We are working to acquire other significant history, the Science and Industry Museum industries in the North West. archives that document Factory’s story is developing its creative industries and wider technological advancements, collections, focusing in particular on Through the exhibition, we are realising such as the change from analogue Manchester’s independent music scene, our ambition to think big – and recording to digital, the advance of digital spearheaded by the revolutionary label establishing ourselves as the home for instruments, and the changing process Factory Records. the Factory Records Archives and the of design. creative industries more generally. We Factory Records will be celebrated with will strengthen our existing collections to an exhibition opening in the coming year inspire future talent and ignite curiosity Funder Players of People’s Postcode Lottery

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SUMMER OF SPACE SUMMER OF SPACE

1.3 million ‘You'll probably never get to sleep on the Moon – only 12 people have – but you can have fun Number of people pretending at this family sleepover event at who saw astronaut the Science Museum’ Tim Peake’s Spacecraft during The Londonist its 20-month tour of the UK OUT OF THIS

‘Budding astronauts will be fascinated by WORLD the Science Museum’s Summer of Space festival, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing’ The Science Museum celebrated all things extra-terrestrial last year, as it welcomed Tim Peake’s Soyuz capsule back to The Evening Standard the museum after its tour of the UK and opened a festival celebrating half a century of space exploration

Above Children try Far right Tim Peake The summer of 2019 marked a giant The control panel was shown alongside the ‘It’s wonderful how the on space suits in the chats to young people leap in the space calendar. Not only Apollo 10 command module Charlie Brown, Science Museum after welcoming Soyuz Science Museum Group Below The Soyuz and its back to the Science did it mark 50 years since humans first which still holds the record for the fastest and Samsung have come parachute on display in Museum after its stepped on the Moon, but also the return crewed vehicle in history, having reached the museum successful UK tour of astronaut Tim Peake’s Soyuz capsule 39,897km/h during its return to Earth on together through this tour to the Science Museum after its stellar 26 May 1969. The Apollo 10 mission took to extend the Principia nationwide tour. astronauts Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford and Mission’s impact in inspiring John Young on two successful orbits of the the next generation of In celebration of this anniversary and the Moon in a dress rehearsal for the historic achievements of space exploration in the Apollo 11 Moon landing which followed scientists and engineers’ past half century, the Science Museum two months later in July 1969. Tim Peake, ESA astronaut opened the Summer of Space, a hugely popular festival that celebrated space The festival also featured the museum’s technologies from the Science Museum biggest ever Astronights, with 500 children Group Collection. and parents sleeping over in the museum 50 years to the day since the launch of The festival began with the official the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. Our presentation of the Soyuz capsule in IMAX Theatre screened the inspiring the museum’s Exploring Space gallery documentary Apollo 11 and visitors heard In June 2016, after six months orbiting collection and is now on long-term display more than 20,000 students through a after a 20-month nationwide tour. Peake from Brian May, the rock musician, and the Earth on the International Space at the National Space Centre, Leicester. combination of school sessions with the unveiled the capsule and shared the Martin Rees, astronomer royal, in a talk Station conducting experiments, walking Space Descent VR with Tim Peake, the Science Museum Group’s Explainer team, news that 1.3 million people had seen about space travel. in space and even running a marathon, stunning virtual-reality journey narrated special visits to see the Soyuz, and a the spaceship during the Tim Peake’s Tim Peake returned to Earth in the Soyuz by Peake, accompanied the tour, enabling double-decker bus which was designed to Spacecraft tour presented by Samsung The museum also hosted: a preview of BBC TMA-19M descent module. The module is nearly 50,000 people to experience replicate the interior of the International and the Science Museum Group. Two’s docu-drama 8 Days: To the Moon the first flown human-rated spacecraft the high-speed descent to Earth from Space Station, with headsets showing and Back; a screening of the Smithsonian in the Science Museum Group Collection. the International Space Station. The VR Space Descent VR. In addition to the The Soyuz was joined on display by the Channel’s Apollo’s Moon Shot, with a live It went on display in London after experience was produced especially education outreach programme, the bus original Apollo 10 command module score by Teeth of the Sea, introduced touring venues in Bradford, Shildon, York, for the Science Museum Group and was visited communities across the UK and simulator console, a key object in by former NASA astronaut Wally Funk; Manchester, Edinburgh, Peterborough, powered by Samsung Gear VR technology. welcomed more than 21,000 onboard. NASA’s contribution to the space race, a space-themed Lates (adult evening Cardiff and Belfast. and one which had never been seen in events); and an outdoor Space Zone of A three-strand education outreach Funders Samsung UK, European Space Agency, the UK before. It is on long-term loan workshops and activities as part of the The Sokol KV-2 emergency space suit programme, developed by the Science Russia-UK Year of Science and Education 2017, from the Smithsonian. Great Exhibition Road Festival. worn by Peake also joined the national Museum Group and Samsung, reached Players of People's Postcode Lottery

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CHEMFEST 2019 POWER UP

‘I have always been 20,000 fascinated by the periodic table – it first got me Number of hours of excited about chemistry – games played last summer at Power so I was delighted to be UP in Manchester part of this initiative presenting chemistry to ‘A unique curation of a wider audience’ gaming history currently Carol Robinson, president of the delighting young and old’ Royal Society of Chemistry Northern Soul

Left Children enjoy a chemistry activity Below Dame Mary Archer, Group chair, at the launch of ChemFest. A child is looking at a chemical element symbol on Dame Mary’s blouse, which depicts the periodic table IN OUR

ELEMENTS Power UP returned to the Science and Industry Museum in July 2019 for its most successful edition in Manchester to date. ChemFest 2019, which celebrated the International The retro-gaming extravaganza was Year of the Periodic Table, attracted thousands of visitors extended from two to six weeks, giving THE GAMES to a packed diary of events, talks and activities that more people the chance to experience the brought the wonders of chemistry to life popular event. More than 10,400 people visited during the summer holiday period, which included three sold-out adult-only Lates sessions. Last year’s Power UP also WE USED Tens of thousands of people took part ChemFest events continued over the which people are invited to send in items generated greater profits than ever before. in ChemFest 2019 to celebrate the summer with tours of the Royal Institution of interest relating to the periodic table. International Year of the Periodic Table archives, a periodic table exhibition at This has so far resulted in various additions The event moved to a new location inside – the grid of the chemical elements that the Royal Society of Chemistry, a tour of to the permanent collection, from bilingual the museum’s historic 1830 Warehouse. is arranged by atomic number, electron Natural History Museum laboratories, and Chinese-English chemical element samples This beautiful building, with its exposed TO PLAY configuration and recurring chemical a Royal Institution event exploring the life to a periodic table blanket. brickwork and wooden beams, provided properties. of William Crookes, who discovered the a striking contrast to the interactive Power UP, our celebration of the history of gaming, element thallium. Additionally, Tom Lehrer, the famous experience taking place inside it, and returned to Manchester last year, attracting more During the year-long collaboration mathematician-songwriter, donated some underlined the history of gaming, with the between leading scientific and cultural In September, the UK’s leading body archival material relating to his song The Power UP timeline displayed in the heart than 10,000 visitors of all ages organisations in London – the brainchild advancing the central role of chemistry in life, Elements, including early, alternative of the space. of our chair, Dame Mary Archer – the the Royal Society of Chemistry, threw open versions and fan translations into other Science Museum featured workshops, the doors of its home at Burlington House, languages. Last year also marked the 60th Visitors particularly enjoy Power UP Retro hand-held consoles also featured Experience team were given the specially commissioned music and family Piccadilly, as part of Open House London, anniversary of his machine-honed, rapid- because they can play all the games they in Power UP for the first time last year. opportunity to develop their skills and shows that reached an audience of and invited Science Museum curators fire enunciation of 102 elements – without used to love and introduce these classics These additions, which included the Game experience by supervising the day-to-day 12,565 adults and children. to bring the subject to life for visitors. doubt the smartest attempt to persuade a to the younger generation. The range of Boy, Atari Lynx and Sega Game Gear, gave running of Power UP. They were supported In all, about 2,000 people came along. general audience to bask in the elemental older games and consoles, such as Pong regular Power UP visitors the chance to try by 44 volunteers, who gave more than From April to mid-July, professional joys of chemistry. on the Binatone or Pac-Man on the Atari a new kind of gaming experience. 500 hours of their time to help visitors chemists joined our Explainers at the Rupert Cole, associate curator of chemistry, 2600, delighted families and adults alike, play the most popular games from the Chemistry Bar in the museum’s spectacular wrote the Science Museum’s chemistry- who played them alongside contemporary As ever, there was a dedicated and past 40 years. Wonderlab interactive gallery to tell themed blogs for our millions of readers Partners Science Museum, V&A, Imperial College enthusiastic team behind the event, who London, The Royal College of Art, The Royal favourites, such as Minecraft and Wii stories about chemistry to more than online and collected items from the Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, The Royal Sports, as well as cutting-edge worked hard to make it a resounding Above A father and son play Mario Kart 64 on the 100,000 visitors, mostly children. worldwide ‘periodic table ballyhoo’, in Society of Chemistry immersive games. success. Two members of the Visitor Nintendo 64, which dates from the late 1990s

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PHOTOGRAPHY BRASS, STEEL AND FIRE

‘I describe myself as a In the early days of the railways, engineers professional thief; what and apprentices would make small but I steal is not passengers’ mechanically accurate models to test their locomotive designs. Brass, Steel and possessions but their images’ MINIATURE Fire, which opened at the National Railway Wang Fuchun Museum in York in September 2019, tells ONE the story of the first 100 years of these fascinating and beautiful railway models.

PIONEERS Before manufactured kits, model-makers often had to make every piece by hand, A fascinating exhibition at the National Railway Museum and our exhibition collection contains 21 of pays tribute to the early model locomotives that these extraordinary, painstakingly detailed heralded the rail revolution miniature steam engines. The star of the BILLION exhibition, however, is the original, full-size Rocket, which will be based at the National Railway Museum for the next 10 years.

‘The ingenious exhibition features Rocket is placed as the grand finale at some of the country’s oldest model the end of the exhibition to demonstrate locomotives which have been how those early years of model-making, experimentation and design came JOURNEYS brought together for the first time’ together in 1829 with the creation An exhibition of travel images by the acclaimed photographer Robin Jones, editor, Heritage Railway Magazine of Robert and George Stephenson’s Wang Fuchun at the National Railway Museum highlighted the revolutionary locomotive. startling pace of change in China over the past 40 years Alongside Rocket, highlights of Brass, Steel and Fire include the world’s oldest working model steam engine, made in Beautiful photographs that vividly 1836 by Thomas Greener, aged just 16. The document the rapid pace of social and 4,000 model is based on a full-size stationary technological change in China were winding engine that would have been used displayed in a special exhibition that Number of railway on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. launched at the National Railway Museum journeys Wang The exhibition also features an example of in 2019. One Billion Journeys: Wang Fuchun has taken in toy engines, nicknamed ‘dribblers’ because Fuchun’s Chinese on the Train is China, during which they left trails of hot water and flammable a collection of work by the prolific Chinese he has taken an spirits in their wake. railway photographer Wang Fuchun. estimated 200,000 photographs Appealing to a range of age groups and The show comprises 43 of Wang’s most audiences, the exhibition is designed famous black-and-white photographs to feel like a modelling workshop and taken over a 40-year period. Together, they Left Passengers features tools, magnifying glasses and offer a fascinating insight into the lives of travelling by steam work benches. hauled train between ordinary Chinese. Tongliao and Jining, 1998, by Wang Fuchun Brass, Steel and Fire received an Earlier images in the exhibition show Below left Wang at the enthusiastic reception from the press and exhibition opening crowded steam or diesel-hauled passenger public and, according to our research, trains, used by rural workers to commute to nine out of 10 people said they would work in China’s emerging big cities. Later of rail journeys said to be taken each A freelance photographer living in Beijing, 2,000 recommend it. David Jason, the actor, even photographs demonstrate the proliferation year in China, which is now home to the Wang has a lifelong passion for the dropped by as part of a TV documentary on of smartphones and high-speed trains as world’s longest high-speed rail network. railways. He began taking photographs Number of great British inventions. China ‘opened up’ to the outside world. Throughout the exhibition, Wang’s images as a railway employee and now has an specialist tools The exhibition title reflects the number capture the candid expressions and international reputation, exhibiting in the that make up the As a further honour, Brass, Steel and experiences of his fellow travellers. United States, Russia and Europe. hanging sculpture Fire received the Best Interpretation at the entrance to prize at the prestigious Heritage Railway One Billion Journeys opened in York with a The exhibition was popular with visitors the exhibition Association Awards. special preview attended by Wang and his eager to see these beautiful and poignant wife Liu Weirong, and representatives from snapshots of life on China’s railways. One York’s Chinese community and the Chinese Billion Journeys was later on display at embassy in London. Wang entertained Locomotion in Shildon from October 2019 Top Lead conservator the audience with stories of his efforts to until March 2020. Wendy Somerville- capture the perfect shot and revealed the Woodiwis with secret to his success: ‘I describe myself Funders Hornbeam Stephenson's Rocket Park Developments, and a model locomotive as a professional thief; what I steal is not Funder One Billion Journeys was made possible Players of the People’s Left Middleton Railway passengers’ possessions but their images.’ with the support of Michael and Jane Wilson Postcode Lottery wheel, 1877

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ART AND SCIENCE SCIENCE CITY

‘A radio series that, for once, ‘A treasure trove of deserves the term “landmark”’ scientific paraphernalia’ The Spectator Metro THE ART OF INNOVATION An acclaimed Science Museum exhibition and accompanying BBC Radio 4 show explored how artists have responded to scientific ideas over the past 250 years Far left and above The Science City gallery draws on several renowned scientific In a first for the Science Museum Group, collections, including this year we embarked on an exciting the King George III Collection and the Royal partnership with BBC Radio 4, inviting Society collection audiences to explore the fascinating Left The microscope relationship between art and science over designed by the 17th- century scientist Robert the past 250 years through a major free Hooke and a copy of his exhibition, a landmark 20-part radio Micrographia series and an accompanying book. The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment TIME to Dark Matter opened in September, examining how artists have been inspired by scientific ideas and why art is crucial to understanding our scientific legacy. Sir Ian Blatchford, Group director, and TRAVEL Tilly Blyth, principal curator at the Science Museum, were the driving force behind the project, expertly presenting the A new permanent gallery at the Science acclaimed Radio 4 series and authoring Museum takes visitors on an immersive the accompanying book, published by journey through the capital as it grew into Bantam Press. ‘There’s a lot of fun, as well as science, in this show... a world leader in scientific inquiry Our ambitious exhibition – co-curated that sense of excitement by Katy Barrett, the Science Museum’s curator of art, and Rachel Boon, its defines the exhibition’ The transformation of London into a George III Collection owned by King’s This free gallery spans 650sq-metres and curator of technology and engineering The New York Review of Books world city over the course of 250 years College London; and the collection of the was built as part of the Science Museum’s – showcased the Group’s unrivalled is the subject of the Science Museum’s Royal Society. Together they represent Masterplan Phase One. collection, displaying objects of scientific new gallery Science City 1550-1800: the evolution of London as a centre for discovery alongside great works of The Linbury Gallery, which opened in scientific endeavour, when artisans and Supported by a National Lottery Heritage art by many legendary names in the visual arts, including John Constable, an 18th-century orrery which Wright may September 2019. The permanent space scientists worked together to reveal the Grant and made possible by funding raised Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney and himself have seen. focuses on how London began to lead the hidden workings of their world. by National Lottery players, we ran a contemporary artists Cornelia Parker world in science, innovation and discovery. project that allowed us to collaborate with Top A visitor admires and Conrad Shawcross. Providing a fresh Rain, Steam and Speed – the Great Western Highlights from the gallery include the young people aged 15 to 25 to create films, David Hockney’s Sun on the Pool, Los perspective on technological and scientific Railway by J M W Turner was paired with a The design of the space echoes the theme seminal text Principia Mathematica artwork and performances in response to Angeles 1982 change through the lens of culture, the beautiful model of the steam locomotive of a city changing over time. Artist Gitta by Isaac Newton, which lays out the themes in Science City. Partners included Above right J M W exhibition placed objects of scientific Turner featured in the painting. In a Gschwendtner has created an intriguing laws of universal motion; a microscope Epic-CIC in Kensington and Chelsea, the Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed was paired discovery next to the artworks they show of support from across the culture cityscape that immerses visitors in historic designed by Robert Hooke, the Royal Lyric theatre in Hammersmith, and the with a model of the inspired or provoked. sector, significant artworks were loaned London as they meet the innovative Society’s curator of experiments in the Caxton Youth Organisation in Westminster. steam locomotive the by Tate, the V&A, the National Gallery, artisans and thinkers of the time. 17th century; a copy of Hooke’s ground- artist painted Left The accompanying A treasured painting that encapsulates the Derby Museums and many others for this breaking Micrographia, the first scientific book by Sir Ian scientific Enlightenment, A Philosopher thought-provoking exhibition. Science City draws on three iconic bestseller; and a range of spectacular Funders The Linbury Trust, National Lottery Heritage Fund, DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Blatchford and Giving that Lecture on the Orrery, by scientific collections: the Science scientific instruments commissioned by Tilly Blyth Improvement Fund, The John S Cohen Foundation, Joseph Wright of Derby, was seen next to Partner BBC Radio 4 Museum Group Collection; the King King George III upon his coronation in 1761. Iain and Jane Bratchie

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WONDERLAB THE SUN

‘We are delighted to help bring the Science Museum Group’s The Sun exhibition to Manchester, giving thousands more young people the chance to learn MIRACLE more about humankind’s long fascination with this unparalleled source of energy’ MAKER Bechtel

Wonderlab, the interactive gallery concept at our London and Bradford museums that encourages children to discover the joy of science, continues to draw in bigger audiences as it adds more fun-filled activities RISING

from the kitchen cupboard, as well as don’t-try-this-at-home experiments – from making fire ‘dance’ to the tune of Tetris using a Rubens tube, to daring to sit on a chair of nails in a test of how surface AND area can impact forces. The museum also 380,000 unveiled a new exhibit, Shadow Trap, that allows visitors to ‘freeze’ their shadow on a Number of people canvas using energy and light absorption. Wonderlab at the Science Museum Spreading the wonder of science across welcomed over the the country, the National Science and SHINING 1,000 past year, of which Media Museum’s Wonderlab also launched Clockwise from above ‘One of the best things more than 100,000 a new live, interactive gameshow for Number of visitors A parent and child you can do in London were educational February half term, Science Showdown. More than 23,000 visitors to the Science who took part in investigate how gases visitors This pitted different historic computing and Industry Museum have been walking workshops and move and flow in the with the kids’ Matter zone; children geniuses against each other – such as Ada on sunshine since last July when The Sun: crafts hosted by learn about our nearest You Need to Visit (family travel blog) Lovelace, Alan Turing, Dorothy Vaughan, Living With Our Star exhibition and event Little Sun, the star in the Space zone; Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson – programme landed in Manchester after socially responsible visitors investigate the properties of light and visitors were then able to vote on their its successful premiere at London’s energy business and colour in the favourite at the end. Science Museum. Colour room The museum also ignited curiosity in The exhibition takes a close look at Bradford’s youngest scientific minds when mankind’s relationship with our closest it hosted its first Baby Rave in November, star, examining its profound influence on making spectacular diffraction sunglasses, were also talks from leading scientists on in collaboration with Better Start Bradford. human life and culture, from the earliest building virtual reality solar systems and our solar bodies and solar geo-engineering Wonderlab welcomed hundreds of little ancient myths to our health, our sense learning about exotic animals who use technology. Naturally, there was plenty of ones bouncing around the gallery across of time, and solar technologies. the Sun in many different ways. An energy time to relax with sundowners and Salute several sessions organised as part of Baby themed learning programme was also the Sun yoga workshops. Week Bradford. As a highlight in Manchester’s cultural delivered at the Science and Industry calendar this year, the exhibition gave Museum during October half term. The Presenter Rick Edwards and science Plans for Wonderlab at the National residents and visitors the chance to see programme included an immersive writer Michael Brooks discussed the Railway Museum in York continue apace beautiful objects, including an ancient science show, drop-in tinkering activity issues raised by Sunshine, the sci-fi film The pioneering Wonderlab: The Equinor watch live experiments at the Chemistry as part of Vision 2025 (see page 16); the Babylonian tablet, a prototype fusion and an early years offer with families directed by Danny Boyle, for a special Gallery at the Science Museum has Bar, or learn about the solar system gallery is due to open in 2022 with a focus reactor and even former US president learning about past, current and future Science(ish) Live event. They covered the cemented its position as one of the UK’s through a giant interactive orrery? on the principle of motion. Manchester’s Jimmy Carter’s solar panels from the White uses of energy and discovering how really big questions, including: when will leading interactive science galleries since Science and Industry Museum is also House. They have watched the Sun rise these energies may impact their lives. the Sun die, can we journey to the Sun it opened in 2016. Year on year, visitor Key to the continued success of Wonderlab planning its own Wonderlab in the near around the world, relaxed on an indoor and will sunshine be created on Earth? numbers are increasing with a third of this in 2019 were two new additions to the future to inspire countless more children beach, and tried on special sunglasses Sold-out Lates, our adult evenings, number free education visitors. gallery, enhancing the exciting range of to see the world around them in new and with digital interactive lenses. meanwhile, saw a live performance of exhibits and immersive experiences across exciting ways. poetry and music derived from solar data Where else can you watch clouds form its seven zones. The Wonder Show opened A packed programme of family events by Katrina Porteous, the acclaimed poet, Funders Bechtel, supported by Players of People's Postcode Lottery. Education programme and lightning strike in front of your eyes, in October, showing live, imaginative Funders Equinor, Urenco, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, included more than 5,000 children and with recorded sound from Peter Zinovieff, supported by The Granada Foundation feel friction in action on three giant slides, demonstrations using everyday ingredients Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 grown-ups at a Sun Playground weekend the pioneer of electronic music. There Media partner The Telegraph

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DRIVERLESS MUSEUM MASTERPLAN

As part of an ongoing programme to film – the highest-quality projection format 3D sound experience. The design by Ellis 2,800 revitalise our spaces, the Science Museum’s – from J J Abram’s Star Wars: The Force Williams Architects features modern, Number of people IMAX Theatre is preparing a major upgrade Awakens to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar comfortable cinema seating and a bar. who attended a to offer the latest in immersive cinema and an unrestored print of Stanley Kubrick’s WHO’S technology. Over the past year, the Science 2001: A Space Odyssey. As one of only two Alongside screenings of films and special Lates that explored Driverless Museum has continued to transform the screens in Europe to feature the very best documentaries, IMAX: The Ronson Theatre technology experience it offers to visitors, including of digital and analogue technology side by will continue to welcome the greatest our many film fans. Our much-loved side, the refurbished theatre will allow us minds in science and culture. The IMAX IMAX Theatre, which opened in 2000, is to host newly released blockbusters, 3D Theatre has previously hosted a lecture DRIVING? undergoing a complete refurbishment. educational films and cinema classics, as by Stephen Hawking, Q&As with musicians well as an exciting diary of live events. such as Jarvis Cocker, Brian May and The development of driverless technology Renamed IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, our will.i.am, a live recording of the Guilty and how it will transform our lives is updated cinema is set to be Europe’s leading With an aspect ratio of 1.43:1, our original Feminist podcast and comedy, dance and destination for film buffs, bringing together IMAX projector offers viewers up to 40% theatre performances. the subject of an important exhibition the original champion of giant-screen more film image on screen than in standard at the Science Museum analogue format with next-generation cinemas. The new IMAX® with Laser, Mark Cutmore, Group head of commercial IMAX® with Laser technology, which offers meanwhile, will deliver brighter images with experiences, says: ‘Cinema audiences the latest in immersive cinema. greater contrast as well as the widest range expect a high-quality, comfortable of colours available to film-makers. The experience and they’ll get that and For 20 years the IMAX Theatre has been refurbishment will also see the introduction more at IMAX: The Ronson Theatre. We’re drawing in large audiences to see some of of IMAX’s incredible 12-channel sound thrilled to provide our visitors with such a the biggest blockbusters in original 70mm system, producing a thrillingly immersive unique offer for film fans.’

Autonomous vehicles have been heralded In Land, visitors can see examples of for the hungry. This section also features as a technology that could radically real self-driving vehicles. The Group’s autonomous drones designed by the Mine change the way we live and work. To collection includes a classic 1960 Citroën Kafon project to clear minefields. explore how close we are to a world driven DS19 car that was modified in the UK in by artificial intelligence (AI), the Science the early 1960s to ‘self-drive’ in early And in Water, the final section, visitors Museum opened a major exhibition in June experiments in driverless technology. This can see a scale model of one of the 2019: Driverless: Who is in Control? From beautiful car, which has long been a design best-known marine vessels in the world – self-driving cars to autonomous flying classic, was able to follow a magnetic field Boaty McBoatface, the name given to an drones and smart underwater vehicles, from embedded cables in the M4. More autonomous submarine that is part of the MAXIMUM the exhibition explores how much of this modern examples include the Robocar, a Natural Environment Research Council’s seemingly futuristic technology already self-driving electric racing car, and the Autosub Long Range fleet. It is being used exists, how much control we are willing to Westfield POD, a fully electric autonomous deep beneath the Antarctic ice to study transfer to it and how its wider vehicle for first and last-mile journeys the effects of climate change. deployment could shape our habits, (those to and from public transport). behaviour and society. Driverless technology may not appear to In Air, visitors can also explore the be commonplace in our everyday lives, but IMPACT There are three distinctive zones in the stories behind flying drones developed it is already changing the way we live, learn exhibition: Land, Air and Water. Each to deliver vital goods and services and respond to the challenges of the 21st As part of an ongoing programme to revitalise our spaces, section explores the different technologies rapidly, from defibrillators for emergency century. As Roger Highfield, Group science the Science Museum is poised to reopen its IMAX Theatre, already operating in these environments, medical response teams to hot dinners director, says: ‘Autonomous technology the motivations of their developers, and may seem like the stuff of sci-fi but it has offering the very latest in immersive cinema technology their potential to transform a range of been around longer than many realise. In activities and industries. Driverless we ask timely questions about how much control we’re willing to cede to AI machines and how driverless technology The Science ‘The Science Museum has Funders MathWorks, could transform our world.’ Museum’s IMAX Direct Line Group and my favourite IMAX theatre PwC. Technology is home to one of anywhere – and I’ve been partner Samsung only 20 operational Electronics UK 70mm 3D IMAX in a few over the years’ ‘A thought-provoking projectors left in Paul Franklin, director and Oscar-winning the world exhibition... full of surprises’ visual effects designer New Scientist

Top The 1960 Citroën DS19 that was modified in the UK to drive autonomously Left A stained-glass driverless concept car with a bed inside, conceived by the artist Dominic Wilcox Funder The Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation

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ABOVE THE NOISE SHOP THE LISTENING PROJECT SOMETHING Our Bradford museum broke new ground with Above the Noise, an exhibition that relied directly on the input of local residents and inspired the BBC to change the way it researches news £140,000 FOR EVERYONE Rise in retail income Left Drummonds Mill, 1991, from the Bradford since the shop Heritage Recording opened in June Unit; local students interviewed parents 2019, compared and grandparents with the same Below Jo Quinton- period the Tulloch, director of our Bradford museum; previous year Sabbiyah Pervez, BBC Look North; Tim Smith, BBC Yorkshire; Kersten England, Bradford Council; Sajidah Shabir, Speaker’s Corner

120 Number of people who collaborated with the National Science and Media Museum for Above the Noise

A pioneering project at the National discover the ways in which visitors Science and Media Museum took an prefer to experience object displays entirely fresh approach to an exhibition, and exhibitions, and how the museum’s ‘A bright well-designed shop appealing to kids one involving an extensive collaboration collections can be made more accessible. and with a well-defined area for adults’ with the local community to shine a light on A partnership with Bradford Museums Left The Science lesser known aspects of life in Bradford. and Galleries is also under way for a Association for Cultural Enterprises Museum's spacious permanent installation of photographs new shop is situated across two floors Above the Noise: 15 Stories from Bradford, from the Belle Vue studio, which, which opened for three months in 2019, between 1902 and 1975, was a popular showed how groups and individuals photographic portrait studio among A world-leading destination store for experimentation, with plenty of things The shop has been very well received. used various forms of technology and Bradford’s residents, many of whom had science-inspired gifts and children’s that appeal to the whole family. The stationery, print and adult textile communication to bypass mainstream come to live and work in the city from educational products has opened in the ranges have become bestselling ranges, media channels, which in many ways other parts of the world. A report of the Science Museum. Conceived by the top The Science Museum’s range of gifts while the lab stools were shortlisted did not represent their experiences or project’s key findings will be produced, creative agency Drinkall Dean, the retail and souvenirs has also been refreshed. for a 2019 Wood Award in the Furniture serve their needs and interests. The along with academic papers. space has expanded onto the mezzanine Working with key product partners, we Production category. The shop was also idea emerged from Bradford’s National ‘Above the Noise taught floor, allowing the museum to offer a have provided exclusive lines for visitors shortlisted for the Best Shop Over £1m Museum, a research project and three- The legacy of Above the Noise has also us a simple lesson: open greater range and variety of products to to buy, including collaborations with the category in the annual awards of the year programme (funded by the Arts extended far beyond the museum. The up. Make time to listen to visitors of all ages. top design brands Darkroom London Association of Cultural Enterprises, which and Humanities Research Council and in exhibition influenced the way the BBC and Pentatonic. A new stationery range promotes commercial best practice in the partnership with the University of Leeds), approaches its own news output. The people, and you’ll find The big, spacious, colourful shop, which includes ethically sourced notebooks and cultural and heritage sector. in which the National Science and Media organisation set up a pop-up newsroom some great stories’ opened last summer, is filled with books, desk accessories, while stackable lab Museum sought to develop how its focus in the city, We Are Bradford, after David science toys, learning products, homeware, stools from King and Webbon – inspired by In accordance with the Group's wider Tim Smith, former head of BBC Yorkshire on science could be combined with Sillito, BBC arts correspondent, was lifestyle items and unusual gifts. It features the ones designer Andy King remembers strategy (see page 20) sustainability making a greater connection with inspired by our exhibition’s approach a co-branded collaboration with Amazon from his schooldays – combine nostalgia features in many of the shop’s products, Bradford and its people. to local stories. The BBC also co- Launchpad, giving visitors an opportunity and cutting-edge design that exemplify including Pentatonic tableware made organised a debate at the museum about to interact with science-inspired products the fun and sophistication of our new shop. from old smartphone screens – the least Above the Noise was a major public national media representation of the from some of the UK’s most exciting start- recycled glass on the planet – and wallets element of the Bradford’s National city. Following the success of We Are ups and technology entrepreneurs. The space-themed range has also been made from recycled plastic bottles. A Museum Project, and there are further Bradford, the corporation increased its refreshed and expanded, and items from newly sourced range of children’s toys has developments in 2020, the final year news gathering resources in the district, The shop's space on the ground floor Fat Face’s collection of Science Museum- been made entirely from ocean plastics, of research. A gallery show, Ideas Hub, as well as opening We Are newsrooms in Funders Bradford’s National Museum Project: has also been renovated and extended, licensed, space-themed clothing are also while refillable water bottles sold in the scheduled to open in 2021, aims to Middlesbrough, Stoke and Aberdeen. Arts and Humanities Research Council and continues to buzz with activity and available to buy. shop are made from 100% recycled plastic.

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ILLUMINATE SMITH CENTRE

Come for the view, stay for the experience: ‘Thank you very much for that seems to be the message from your support in helping us delighted guests who have given the to deliver the event – your ROOM Science Museum’s new private events space, Illuminate, glowing praise since it knowledge was invaluable. opened in spring 2019. Illuminate was It was great working with you WITH also proud to win the ‘Best Venue with a ... in your lovely new venue’ View’ category at the prestigious London Venue Awards. Rhea Sethi, events manager, BP A VIEW Situated on Levels 4 and 5 of the museum, the space enjoys spectacular floor-to- ceiling picture windows with a panoramic Over the past year, we have welcomed vista over the city’s rooftops and companies celebrating anniversaries and landmarks, including Harrods, the London milestones, and high-profile charitable Illuminate, the Science Eye and St Paul’s Cathedral. events such as Unicef’s Soccer Aid Gala, Museum’s spectacular which raised £800,000 in donations to Such has been the success of Illuminate, help protect children in danger around the top-floor private events our events team receive an average of world. A star-studded guest list included space, has been a huge hit 100 inquiries a month from event-bookers an exclusive performance by Robbie with blue-chip clients – looking for an exceptional space in Williams. ‘Illuminate had the modern feel and won a major award which to host events ranging from large we were looking for,’ says Roxanne Portnoi, award ceremonies to bar and bat mitzvah special events manager at Unicef. ‘We 200 celebrations. By far the most attractive received a lot of great feedback after the Number of events feature for prospective clients is the event, especially regarding Illuminate and and meetings the glorious view the venue offers. the beautiful views over London.’ Smith Centre has hosted in less By early 2020, the events team and than a year WINNER Illuminate’s in-house partners, Moving Venue catering and White Light production, ‘Best Venue with a had hosted 81 events in the space, View’ at the London and had taken three repeat bookings. Venue Awards ‘Illuminate has not only established itself as a key contributor to the events market,’ says Alistair Otto, associate commercial director of the Science Museum Group, ‘its WHERE IDEAS HAPPEN Left Robbie Williams gave an exclusive operational success proves invaluable to performance at Unicef's the progression of the Group’s ambitious Our new Smith Centre in the heart of Kensington is a vital gathering place Soccer Aid Gala development plan, and in sustaining our Below The top floor of for the Group’s patrons, fellows and supporters, and has already Illuminate has dazzling role as a world leader in both the science hosted events of worldwide significance views across London and museum sectors.’

Since its official opening by Her Majesty Action, which was attended by many top Above Roger Highfield, Group science director, The Queen in March 2019, the Smith figures, including Sir David Attenborough, joins the luminaries at an Arts and Media Lunch in ‘Thank you all from the bottom of our the Smith Centre. Guests included Michael Wilson, 1,200 Centre, a beautiful new multi-purpose Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Nick Maureen Lipman, Margaret Drabble, Ben Kingsley, hearts for making the party truly events venue at the Science Museum, has Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Stephen Poliakoff, Ben Okri, Sheila Hancock, Sarah Average number hosted more than 200 high-profile and VIP Institute on Climate Change and the Sands, John Sessions and Terry Gilliam mesmerising and an unforgettable of event inquiries meetings and conferences. Environment. The event attracted huge experience for our client’ Illuminate receives international media attention. in a year Gary Peters, director, Evolve Events The elegant suite of rooms occupies a 19th-century building with fine period The centre has also hosted: the Kensington ‘The Smith Centre proved details, and replaces the old Smith Centre, and Chelsea Culture Conversation, which the perfect setting for named in honour of Martin and Elise Smith, brought together 120 cultural organisations sparks to fly between who wanted the museum to have a centre in the area; a conference celebrating for debates, lectures and philanthropy. the opening of Medicine: The Wellcome actors, scientists and It also serves as a peaceful oasis in the Galleries at the Science Museum; meetings leading luminaries’ cultural buzz of Albertopolis, where Group and awaydays for the Group’s funders and Sarah Sands, editor, BBC Radio 4 Today patrons, fellows and supporters can drop sponsors; and two Arts and Media Lunches, in throughout the week. which attracted celebrity attendees. With many original features, museum The Smith Centre has hosted several artefacts, books and artworks, including significant events in the past year. In the magnificent Electrical Engineering February, the government chose the venue Workshop by Terence Cuneo, the Smith to launch the United Nations Climate Centre is an inspiring environment in which Change Conference and the Year of Climate to think, debate, collaborate and work. Funders Sir Martin Smith and Lady Smith OBE

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RESEARCH RESEARCH

Right Research workshop attendees visit the Chao Centre 75,000 for Art and Technology in Beijing Number of people who have read the PATHS OF Group's journal over INQUIRY 95,000 sessions The Group continues to research innovative ways Left and right Bradford Grand Mosque and to showcase our collections and devise our exhibitions Tyersal Primary School in 1986. Both images are part of the Bradford’s National Museum research project Research is reaching the parts that other (AHRC), is part of its Creative Industries Media Museum can be both a national Below Culture Space museum activities cannot, whether by Cluster led by the University of York. and a distinctively Bradford institution. workshops discussed the international embracing immersive technology or Our project will combine a ColliderCase By researching and engaging with the diversity of space bringing specialists together to explore (which allows digital content, such as diaspora communities that live in the city, exploration new approaches to space exploration explanatory information, to be projected it investigates the theme of ‘translocal’ displays. Last year, when we announced the onto cased objects) and The Cutting Room, connections between countries, and Science Museum Group’s aim to become an editing tool using a technology called how this can affect how the museum is the world’s most research-informed ‘object-based media’ that allows for highly experienced. science museum organisation, we also individualised viewing experiences, in vowed to take the power of research and to which the content can vary according to Meanwhile, Culture Space was a three- apply it in every way possible to the work someone’s age or preferences. workshop project in 2019, designed and future programmes of our museums. to start a conversation about how Alongside these project initiatives, our a new space gallery could reflect Digital diversity Science Museum Group Journal, the the international diversity of space People may come to our museums to international digital ambassador for exploration. The workshop met at the admire the amazing objects on display, science-museum research, goes from Science Museum, at the European Space but today they also expect us to play our strength to strength. With a dozen issues Agency in the Netherlands, and at the part in the digital realm, too. And where under its belt, the journal has been read by Mullard Space Science Laboratory near there is a need, research is on standby to 75,000 people over 95,000 sessions. Guildford to discuss how we can apply the enable its delivery. This year will see the lessons learnt from our 2015 Cosmonauts first public incarnation of an experiment in Crossing continents exhibition to a larger, permanent gallery. 3D immersive storytelling, which will be on Time, Culture and Identity is an AHRC- the theme of robots. Funded by Innovate funded project researching the history of Tomorrow’s museum UK, part of UK Research and Innovation 18th-century clocks made in London, and Towards a National Collection, which (UKRI), the aim is to produce a multi-room, watches and automata in the collection launched in October, is a UKRI multi- multi-sensory, immersive experience in of the Palace Museum, Beijing. Here the million-pound research programme to which groups of visitors collaborate to research is being pursued along three enable Britain’s national museums to solve a series of challenges. Research paths: historical (what is the history of the become a unified, searchable online undertaken by a cross-disciplinary group Anglo-Chinese clock trade?), digital (what collection. The Science Museum Group is at the University of Exeter hopes to interpretive resources can be developed leading Heritage Connector, part of the understand how individual and group- for this fascinating collection?) and public first round of digital projects under this visitor experiences in this kind of ‘mixed engagement (what do audiences make of funding, and we are looking forward to reality’ attraction can be designed and these exquisite pieces?). full participation in the programme over evaluated to benefit the creative industries the next five years. sector in the future. Another project, Bradford’s National Museum, now in its last year and also Another digital project, Responsive funded by AHRC, looks at the international Funders Arts and Humanities Research Council, Interpretive Storytelling, funded by the scene in an unusual way. The project The Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome, UK Research Arts and Humanities Research Council explores how the National Science and and Innovation, Innovate UK

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VOLUNTEERING VOLUNTEERING

94% ‘Volunteering for the One Collection project £250,000 at Blythe House has been an amazing Proportion of our experience. It has also sparked more interest Revenue that was team who say in STEM and boosted my science capital’ generated through volunteering volunteer-led with us benefits Collections digitisation volunteer, One Collection activities their well-being over the past year

Over the past year our volunteers have At the National Railway Museum in York, and employment skills. At Locomotion, By supporting the development and helped the Science Museum Group achieve archive volunteers played an important in Shildon, we have worked with the interpretation of exhibitions, volunteers its potential in innumerable ways, and role in helping Search Engine, the North East Autism Society, Step Forward bring our collections to life. At the Science reach its operational, strategic and social museum’s research and archive facility, and Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Museum, they gave talks to 11,500 visitors objectives. Contributing a staggering gain accreditation by assessing, listing, Foundation Trust to provide opportunities in the Exploring Space gallery, provided 100,000 hours of their time, they have digitising and rehousing thousands of for people in front-of-house roles and our spotlight tours to 1,000 visitors to our Top helped to ignite curiosity in our visitors, items. Meanwhile, at the National Science workshop. In Bradford, volunteers from Secret exhibition, and 615 guided tours to reveal the wonders of our collections and and Media Museum in Bradford, our the local Deaf Centre helped to repack The Art of Innovation. harness the power of digital by supporting photography team has created 1,000 our small objects store, as well as explore our imaging work in projects such as One publicly searchable records for the archive how we can make our opportunities more In Manchester, we introduced object Collection (see page 10). of the British photographer Tony Ray- accessible to the deaf community. handling experiences into our newly Jones, which we acquired in 1994. refreshed Textiles Gallery Conversation Collections-based volunteering is a Across a range of roles, our volunteers Space and in York, volunteers undertook fantastic way for us to nurture ‘science Our volunteers, crucially, ensure that our combine their expertise with our research and prepared objects for display capital’ (a person’s knowledge of science museums and collections are friendly and and exposure to it) and complete ‘open for all’, thereby helping to increase important work. Nowhere is this better the diversity and size of our audiences, seen than in One Collection, where build science capital and foster careers. volunteers have increased capacity in This year, we have created new roles and documentation by 56%, packing by 83% partnerships that support this. In London, and photography by 159%. The role has we have worked with Kensington and also had a powerful social impact, with Chelsea Volunteer Centre to engage new 10 of those taking part going on to find communities in science and volunteering. employment in the museum sector after In Manchester, we have partnered with The volunteering with us. Growth Company and the Manchester Art Gallery to support people back into work by helping to develop their science capital

‘The SMG’s role in leading the Heritage Volunteering Group means that quality volunteering inspires TOP futures not just within the group, but across Britain’ collections to inspire visitors. Last year, as part of the museum’s award-winning Shaun Delaney, volunteering the Science Museum object handling team Brass, Steel and Fire exhibition. development manager, NCVO helped 9,000 visitors get to know artefacts relating to communications, computing The Group has also played a leading role and chemistry. in volunteering across the sector. Through our leadership of the Heritage Volunteering In Manchester, 44 Power UP volunteers Group, we have worked with the National took gaming to the next level, transforming Council for Voluntary Organisations to Top left A volunteer inspires the next generation of the experience for our visitors and ensure the heritage sector is reflected in TEAM scientists and technicians during Future Engineers helping to generate significant revenue national discussions on volunteering. At at the National Railway Museum Our amazing team of volunteers are the Above right Robin, a Science Museum volunteer, for the museum. And at Locomotion, our a local level, we have helped to develop a unsung heroes of the Group, giving our visitors explains the science of optical fibres to some Cab Guides provided footplate access city-wide heritage volunteering strategy young visitors to 28,000 visitors, talking to them about in York which, over the coming years, a warm welcome, bringing our collections to life Left Alba, a volunteer at the Science and Industry Museum, helps inspire budding scientists at the science, technology and engineering will deliver a range of activities to open and inspiring a love of science across the country Electricity: The Spark of Life behind the railways. people’s minds and inspire their futures.

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ACQUISITIONS LOANS

WHAT WE WHAT WE ACQUIRED LOANED

Covid-19 collecting Pacer No. 142001 The Level Crossing, Poole, 1953 Working replica of Rocket, 1979 In 2019-20 we added 539 objects to In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, With its distinctive flat front, bus-style To: Poole Museum, Dorset To: Vintage Trains, Birmingham In the past year, the Group loaned the Science Museum Group Collection. the Group’s curators are identifying seating and functional design, the The figurative painter Henry Taylor Built to commemorate the 150th 2,178 objects to 162 different venues objects and stories to collect on the Pacer train may seem an unlikely Lamb also painted townscapes. This anniversary of the Rainhill Trials, and Here are 10 highlights nation’s behalf. These items will join candidate for museum preservation, picture was lent for the retrospective loaned for the Tyseley Locomotive in the UK and 127 objects to the Group's collection, providing yet these vehicles provided an exhibition Henry Lamb: Out of the Works Open Weekend. a permanent record of medical, essential rail link for commuters in Shadows. another 17 venues overseas. scientific, cultural and personal many parts of northern England and Here are 10 highlights responses to the outbreak and Wales over the past 30 years. chronicling its impact on society.

High Speed Train power car no. 43002, The Railway Chronicle – From the Archive material from the collection Bench micrometer, made by Photograph, Iris and The Gnome, 1917 Steam locomotive No. 120, 1899 Measuring machine, c.1855 Electric taxi cab, 1897 Sir Kenneth Grange King’s Cross Pass Loco of music journalist Jon Savage Joseph Whitworth and Co To: National Galleries of Scotland, To: Great Central Railway, To: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester To: British Motor Museum, Britain's most influential modern The everyday life of railway workers This wonderful resource for historians Although built in 1883, this machine Edinburgh Loughborough Made by Sir Joseph Whitworth and Warwickshire locomotive has joined the national in post-war London is revealed in this of the Manchester music scene speaks to the post-industrial decline One of the series of ‘Cottingley This T9 class London & South Western Company. Whitworth revolutionised Designed by Walter Bersey of the collection after more than 40 years in collection of more than 100 drawings contains archive materials and oral of Manchester’s textile industry. In Fairy’ photographs by Elsie Wright Railway locomotive was a star precision engineering. Lent for London Electrical Cab Company, the service. The HST was the fastest train and watercolours by the artist Arthur histories relating to Joy Division, New 1984 it was bought by a Bradford and Frances Griffiths. Lent for the attraction at the railway’s Autumn the exhibition Standardisation and ground-breaking design eventually in Europe when first built in 1975, the Gooch. Dating from 1947-8, they Order, Factory Records and Factory steel pin company so it would exhibition Cut and Paste: 400 Years Steam Gala. Deviation: the Whitworth Story. proved unreliable. Lent for the year the National Railway Museum depict railway workers maintaining Communications Ltd. remain in the UK and not be used of Collage. exhibition The Car. The Future. Me. opened, and this class of locomotive steam engines at the King’s Cross by international competition. still holds the world diesel speed Passenger Locomotive Depot. The record of 148mph. humorous cartoons also document the extreme winter of 1947.

Folding plate ‘Cameo’ camera Chinese shadow ball Table clock made by Thomas Tompion Sample of metallic elements Restaurant Car, c.1935 Empire type world clock, 1909 Three-wheeled motor car, 1888 Picture receiver, c.1960 This camera was given to Frances This 19th-century brass shadow ball This Barnard Tompion clock is thought These 12 metal samples were given To: Museum MORE, Gorssel, To: Somerset House, London To: Victoria and Albert Museum, To: National Maritime Museum, London Griffiths by Edward Gardner and Sir from China has engraved bird and to have been designed for Queen Anne out by the Hong Kong Science Museum Netherlands Lent to the exhibition, 24/7: A Wake London Lent for the exhibition The Moon, this Arthur Conan Doyle in 1920 around fauna filigree patterns which enclose by Thomas Tompion and Edward to those celebrating 2019 as the UN Original railway poster artwork by Up Call for a Non-Stop World, this This 1888 Benz is reputed to be the picture receiver was used to receive the time that Frances and her cousin a gimballed oil lamp. The lamp remains Banger in 1708 and was later given International Year of the Periodic Leonard Campbell Taylor. Lent to this clock uses longitudinal lines to oldest petrol-engined car in the the first photographs from the Moon Elsie Wright took their fifth and final upright and casts shadows across the by King George II to Andrew Stone, Table. We acquired these as part of a museum of modern realist art for the indicate the time at any given point UK. Lent for the exhibition Cars: from the Soviet probe Luna 9 in 1966. photograph of ‘fairies’ in their back wall of a darkened room when rolled tutor to George III. It was acquired collecting project to record how the exhibition For Real: British Realists in on the globe. Accelerating the Modern World. garden in Cottingley, Yorkshire. or rotated. for the nation via the Acceptance periodic table’s 150th anniversary the 1920s and 1930s. in Lieu scheme. was celebrated across the globe.

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WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS FINANCIAL OVERVIEW: SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY CULTURAL SUCCESS 2019–20 By Jonathan Newby, managing director of the Group

The Science Museum Group attracted a total of The National Railway Museum attracted 698,000 Off-site visits In total there were the 132,000 The Science Museum Group saw a significant increase acquisitions part-funded by the Science Museum One Collection and Power Hall conservation 5,007,000 visits during the past year. Up to the end visits and up to the end of February was -8% behind instances of participation in off-site learning in its activities during the year, primarily as large Foundation and the Art Fund. Further additions projects, in addition to our core support. Trading of February visit numbers overall were 1.5% ahead the previous year. The Museum saw historically activities delivered across the Group; almost capital projects moved to completion or delivery. included a Eurostar and the Sir Kenneth Grange income of £18.7 million represented a 20% increase of the previous year. The Covid-19 outbreak in strong visitor numbers in 2018-19 as a result of a 1.5 million visits to our touring exhibitions – our high-speed train. on 2018-19, as before the Covid-19 disruption we March had a major impact on visitor numbers new brand campaign and the successful visit of Tim largest annual attendance since launching the Key projects and acquisitions benefited from a full year’s activity at our Illuminate followed by the closure of the museums from 18 Peake’s Soyuz capsule. Up to March 2019-20 visitor programme in 2014; and tens of thousands visited We proudly opened the £24 million Medicine: Covid-19 pandemic corporate events space in London and a March, meaning the group ended the year -4% figures reflect a return to the historical range, with Flying Scotsman as it toured heritage railways and The Wellcome Galleries, generously supported by The end of the 2019-20 financial year was refurbished retail store on the site. behind the previous year. visitors seeing the exhibition Brass, Steel and Fire provided mainline services. Wellcome, National Lottery Heritage Fund, GSK, overshadowed by the global Covid-19 pandemic and Stephenson’s Rocket. The total includes 33,000 The Wolfson Foundation, Vitabiotics, Art Fund, and the resulting shut down in the Group’s museums Donations and grants of £35.9 million were gratefully The Science Museum attracted 3,160,000 visits visits in education groups, which up to the end of SMG's digital audience There were 11 million visits Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Britford Bridge from mid-March. The direct effect of the closure received from all our donors and supporters for and up to the end of February was +7% ahead of February was at the same levels as the previous year. to the Group's websites, +5% ahead of the previous Trust, Dr Martin Schoernig, Medical Sciences of our sites will become clear over the summer of a variety of capital and non-capital activities, the previous year. A brand awareness campaign, year (+8% up to the end of February), indicating the Historical Society and an anonymous donor. We 2020, but the indirect effects on visitor numbers as outlined above. Our non-capital expenditure capitalisation of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Locomotion attracted 189,000 visits overall and new museum websites have now bedded-in and are continued with our One Collection project to move and behaviour, on the wider economy, and on remained in line with 2018-19, and 72% of this was 11 mission, the popular Top Secret: From ciphers up to the end of February was +28% ahead of having an impact. our collections from a store in west London to a the philanthropic environment will play out over directed to our strategic objectives. Support costs to cyber security exhibition and the opening of the previous year. The museum has moved away purpose-built facility in Wiltshire, with £25.8 million a much longer time frame. The financial future of £21.2 million included the running costs of our Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries all drove footfall. from community-style events, which do not have of funding from our sponsoring department, the of the Group is profoundly uncertain and more large estate, as well as back-office and management The total includes 423,00 visits in education groups a connection with the STEM subject matter of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, precarious than during the recovery from the global functions; these are also in line with previous years. which up to the end of February was +11% ahead of museum, to deliver a programme more rooted in the for this activity. The DCMS also made a valuable financial crisis over the past decade. The Group will the previous year and set for a record-breaking year. national collection and the stories of Shildon with a contribution of £3.5 million from the Capital apply the lessons it learned over recent years on Our capital expenditure on major projects and on focus on improving programming, marketing and the Infrastructure Fund to support our project to entrepreneurial attitudes, operational efficiency collection items increased by 60% to £43.5 million, The Science and Industry Museum attracted core offer. This year's total includes 5,000 visits in repair the Power Hall in Manchester. and effectiveness as it seeks to navigate the as we delivered on the projects described above. 539,000 visits and up to the end of February was education groups which up to the end of February challenges of the coming years. Full statutory results are available in our Annual -14% behind the previous year. Major closures was -23% behind the previous year due to changes We started an ambitious project to develop a new Report & Accounts. and conservation work took place across 40% of in the number of workshops available to schools. Technicians gallery at the Science Museum, funded Moving forward the site, including the closure of the Power Hall by a generous grant from the Gatsby Foundation, While focusing on our future, we are looking to build 2019-20 was a year of significant achievement for two years, temporary closures to the Air and The National Science and Media Museum attracted and completed Science City 1550-1800: The Linbury on the progress in 2019-20. The figures presented for the Group and our financial results reflect Space Halls and building works disconnecting 421,000 visits and up to the end of February was Gallery, funded by the Linbury Trust and the National below are not prepared on a statutory accounting this. 2020-21 and the following years will bring the upper and lower parts of the museum for a -3% behind the previous year, remaining ahead of Lottery Heritage Fund. basis, but instead show capital and non- significant challenges, as the world recovers from three-month period. The museum remodelled its the decline experienced in 2016-17 prior to the capital expenditure, excluding depreciation and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. We will do targets to anticipate a 35% reduction in visitors and Museum’s relaunch in 2017-18. The programme We also increased our collection with the accessions amortisation. £67.7 million (54%) of our current year our utmost to meet these challenges and to took action to revise the public programme and included the popular summer exhibition and of the Barnard Tompion Clock, Rowland Emett’s income was grant-in-aid received from the DCMS, ensure the continued achievement of the communications strategy to mitigate this impact, programme Hello Universe and The Forgotten A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley, including the significant contributions to the Group’s strategic objectives. which reduced this deficit significantly (by 20%) up Showman exhibition. The cinema operation, called to the end of February – a significant achievement. Pictureville, is now managed by the SMG and we are The total includes 83,000 visits in education groups working to grow audiences to this new offer. The which up to the end of February was +3% ahead of total includes 33,000 visits in education groups, the previous year despite the conservation works which up to the end of February was level with SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP INCOME/EXPENDITURE 2019–20 on the site. the previous year. Jonathan Newby, managing director of the Group, and Yasumasa Nagamine, Japanese ambassador Grant in Aid Science capital to the UK, at the Science Museum £67.7m £5.7m

Trading income Audience expectations £18.7m £19.3m SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP VISIT NUMBERS 2019–20 INCOME Grants, donations EXPENDITURE Research and collections and sponsorship £6.0m Total number of visits to the museums London Manchester York Locomotion Bradford Group 2019–20 2019–20 Total £125.3m £35.9m Total £118.8m 2018–19 3,168,000 652,000 782,000 153,000 455,000 5,210,000 International reach Rental income £0.3m 2019–20 3,160,000 539,000 698,000 189,000 421,000 5,007,000 £1.2m Transform estate Other income £3.7m Visits in education groups London Manchester York Locomotion Bradford Group £1.8m Digital 2018–19 433,000 88,000 37,000 7,000 38,000 603,000 £1.8m

2019–20 423,000 83,000 33,000 5,000 33,000 578,000 Increase income £17.3m Any anomalies in totals and % differences arise from roundings Support activites £21.2m

Capital expenditure, including collections £43.5m

These charts are based on unaudited financial information extracted from management accounts as at 31 March 2020. Restricted and unrestricted income are combined; the surplus shown above derives from restricted funding received for projects we intend to deliver in the coming years.

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WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS

The financial support of visitors and partners provides critical funding for the Science Museum Group’s core priorities and future plans. We are hugely grateful to everyone who has supported our work during 2019-20

Our supporters have come together over Corporate partners Rosamond A Brown PATRONS NATIONAL SCIENCE AND MEDIA MUSEUM SUPPORT THE SCIENCE the last year to enable a wide range of Airbus David and Patricia Buck Stephenson Circle Trusts, foundations and government Avast Bruce and Jane Carnegie-Brown MUSEUM GROUP exhibitions, new galleries and programmes Maurice G Boddy City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council Bechtel Trevor Carrier Mr Harry Medcalf Players of People’s Postcode Lottery of work that have reached hundreds of bp Dr Grant Castle The Michael and Nicola Sacher Charitable Trust West Yorkshire Combined Authority Do you have a passion for inspiring the thousands of people across the UK and Direct Line Group Steve Clarke Wick Moorman DXC Technology Dr John L Collins next generation of scientists? Does further afield. Together we are bringing Phil Swallow Corporate partners Equinor Miranda Craig The Broadway Shopping Centre your organisation need a STEM-literate science, technology, engineering and Eurotech Computer Services Limited Ina De & James Spicer Gresley Circle Surfachem workforce? Or do you want to ensure that mathematics to life, creating curiosity and GSK Darun Dhamija Francis Townend University of Bradford Lenovo Data Centre Group John and Elaine Elkington the wider public engage with science and wonder, and inspiring the next generation William N Smith Royal Society of Chemistry MathWorks Mr Lyn Flook Tom and Marie Spence (USA) our scientific heritage? If the answer is of creative thinkers. Nutanix Richard Griffin MBE yes, then you have a stake in our mission Pfizer Mr and Mrs Andrew Griffith Hackworth Circle LOCOMOTION PwC Reade Griffith to inspire futures. We can only achieve We thank all the individuals and Derek Arrand Trusts, foundations and government QinetiQ Dan Ilett Bill Berridge Players of People's Postcode Lottery this with your support and hope you will organisations listed below, and those Raytheon Jessica James Chris Clark consider partnering with us to continue donors who wish to remain anonymous, ReAgent Dr and Mrs Farouk and Afsane Jivraj Frank Clough Samsung Mr Spencer John our vital work. who have made a significant contribution John F Dixon SCIENCE MUSEUM FOUNDATION URENCO The Keniston-Cooper Charitable Trust Michael Dodd The Science Museum Foundation is a registered to this vital work. Wire Broadcast Ltd Dr Joanna Kennedy Mr D A Fagan charity committed to providing resources and By collaborating with the Science Museum Fiona Kumar The Flour Mill advocacy to support the vision and mission of Group, you will get to know our work, STEM Circle corporate members Dr David Lancaster Dr Ian M Holland the Science Museum Group. Bloomberg Lydia Lee Thomas D Kolisch collections and experts better, gain SCIENCE MUSEUM BT Dr Sara Levene Ian Macbeth Trustees insight into how science has shaped the Individual philanthropists, trusts, Cisco Dr Thomas Leonard Lipski Tim Robertson Mark Austin world we live in, and how it can tackle the foundations and government MathWorks George and Angela Loudon Ian Robinson Mike Blackburn OBE Art Fund Sanofi Renato Lulia Jacob Joe Tonks Lord Borwick of Hawkshead pressing issues of today and tomorrow. Arts and Humanities Research Council Mr & Mrs Iain McIntosh Sandy and Colin Turnbull Sir Donald Brydon CBE You can help us fulfil our mission, while Biotechnology and Biological Sciences PATRONS Lesley and Arthur I Miller Dean Welbourn Professor Richard Clegg FREng, FRSC we support you to fulfil your philanthropic Research Council Newton Circle Ben Monaghan Rodney Wilson Dr Bob Cowell Blavatnik Family Foundation The Arah Foundation Ms Mariela Pissioti Edwina Dunn or business objectives in creative and The Douglas Bomford Trust Lord Archer and Dame Mary Archer Dr Neil Reid Claudia Harding tangible ways. Together we will inspire the Iain and Jane Bratchie Humphrey Battcock Simon and Kate Reid SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY MUSEUM Michael Hoffman nation, including your staff, customers The Britford Bridge Trust Lord Borwick Dr Martin Schoernig Individual philanthropists, trusts, David Jacob Dana and Albert R Broccoli Foundation Bridor Trust Sunil and Leena Sheth foundations and government Ravi Rajagopal and stakeholders. The John S Cohen Foundation Sir Donald and Lady Brydon Ian and Helen Simm The Bowland Charitable Trust Dame Fiona Woolf CBE DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Clive and Claudia Bush David Sunkersing Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport For further information please contact us Improvement Fund Dr Bob Cowell Mr David A Trapnell Garfield Weston Foundation Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Sir Peter Gershon Alex van Someren The Granada Foundation at [email protected] Fidelity UK Foundation Bridget and David Jacob Paul and Justine Williams Kirby Laing Foundation Fieldfisher Steve Mobbs and Pauline Thomas Robin Wilson and Yana Alexandroff Sally MacDonald Frank Parkinson Agricultural Trust Matthew Peacock and Terri Duhon Eric Winkler Players of People’s Postcode Lottery The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Sir Martin Smith and Lady Smith OBE Dame Fiona Woolf University of Salford The Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation Mr and Mrs Michael G Wilson Wellcome The Helen Hamlyn Trust The Zochonis Charitable Trust The David and Claudia Harding Foundation Galileo Circle NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM The Hintze Family Charitable Foundation Mark Austin Individual philanthropists, trusts, Corporate partners Horizon 2020 European Union Funding Mr & Mrs Edward D Baker foundations and government Atmos International for Research & Innovation Sir Ian Blatchford & Jeremy Rosenblatt Art Fund Bechtel Innovate UK Niels Boldt-Wilson Friends of the National Railway Museum bp Lee Kai Hung Foundation Iain Bratchie The Holbeck Charitable Trust BuroHappold Engineering The Leverhulme Trust The de Laszlo Foundation Hornbeam Park Developments Ltd Electricity North West Ltd Linbury Trust Mr Andrew Eland and Dr Pascale Hazel Players of People's Postcode Lottery Manchester Science Partnerships Lloyd's Register Foundation Christopher and Judy Hurrion Richard Broyd Trust Raytheon The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson The Oso Foundation Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli Shell Foundation Pi Capital Siemens PLC Medical Sciences Historical Society Sean Phelan and Audrey Mandela Corporate partners Waters Corporation Henry Moore Foundation Lakshmi Rajagopal Angel Trains Ltd National Lottery Heritage Fund Steve Sellers Eversholt Rail Ltd Players of People's Postcode Lottery Sharpe Family London & Continental Railways Ltd Royal Society of Chemistry Lawrence and Alice Staden Murphy Group The Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation Mr Craig Swick Network Rail Dr Martin Schoernig Porterbrook Michael Spencer and the NEX Group plc Brunel Circle Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Max and Julius Aarts In-kind supporters Keith Thrower Toby Anstruther Arriva Cross Country Wellcome Dr P D Atherton Grand Central Railway Company Ltd Above Supporters of Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries join Dame Mary Archer and Sir Ian Blatchford at the The Wolfson Foundation John Birkenhead Central Japanese Railway Company opening of the new permanent space. They include representatives from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Vitabiotics Foundation and the Lalvani Family Dr Stuart and Clair Blackie LNER GSK, The Wolfson Foundation and Vitabiotics

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WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS WHO’S WHO IN OUR GREAT SCIENCE ALLIANCE

THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP COMPRISES Professor Ajit Lalvani Mr Tom Dower Science Museum, London Sir Paul Nurse Mr James Grierson National Railway Museum, York Dr Robert Parker Cllr Simon Henig Science and Industry Museum, Manchester Professor Chris Rapley CBE (from August 2019) Cllr Ossie Johnson (to August 2019) National Science and Media Museum, Bradford Professor Simon J Schaffer Mr Geoff Paul (from January 2020) Locomotion, Shildon Professor Molly Stevens (to November 2019) Mr Ian Thompson (to January 2020) SCMG Enterprises Ltd National Railway Museum advisory board Railway Heritage Designation advisory board BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP Chair Co-Chairs The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum is Mr Anton Valk CBE Rt Hon. Lord Faulkner of Worcester responsible for the whole of the Science Museum Ms Sarah Staniforth CBE Group. The trustees, who may number between 12 Members and 20, are appointed by and responsible to the Mr Philip Benham Members prime minister through the Department for Digital, Ms Carolyn Griffiths (from January 2020) Mr Edmund Bird* Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The director of Sir Peter Hendy CBE (from July 2019) Dr David Brown the Science Museum Group, as chief executive Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Mr Ian Brown CBE (to October 2019) officer, is responsible to the Board of Trustees: and, Dr Ellen McAdam Mr Neil Butters as accounting officer, is accountable to DCMS for Mr Paul Plummer (to January 2020) Mr Ian Gilbert* compliance with the management agreement. Professor Clive Roberts Ms Elizabeth Hallam Smith Within the framework of their statutory duties as Mr Christian Wolmar Sir Peter Hendy CBE stated under the National Heritage Act 1983, the Mr Mark Hopwood (to October 2019) role of the trustees is to establish group policy, Science and Industry Museum advisory board Ms Louise Innes (to October 2019) review performance and endorse appointments Mr David Jenkins (to October 2019) to key management positions. Their primary Chair Mr Mike Lamport activity is to assist the chair in meeting the Professor David A Phoenix OBE Mr Andrew McLean board’s overall responsibilities, in accordance Mr Peter Ovenstone with the policies of the secretary of state, and in Members Mr Andy Savage (to October 2019) compliance with charity law. The Board of Trustees Mr Mark Ball Ms Vicky Stretch also offers guidance and expertise on setting and Mr David Brown Mr Anton Valk CBE (to June 2019) implementing the strategy for the group. Professor Danielle George MBE (from July 2019) Ms Clare Hudson * Joint members Chair Professor Andy Miah Dame Mary Archer DBE Rt Hon. The Baroness Morris of Yardley Mrs Lopa Patel MBE Trustees Ms Angela Saini (from July 2019) NEW FELLOWS OF THE SCIENCE MUSEUM Professor Brian Cantor CBE Ms Sheona Southern Mrs Judith Donovan CBE Mr Steven Underwood The Science Museum Fellows Programme Dr Sarah Dry recognises scientists and individuals who have Dr Joanna Foster (from July 2019) National Science and Media Museum advisory board changed our world through academic research, Dr Hannah Fry (from July 2019) design, technology and philanthropy. Sir Peter Hendy CBE (from July 2019) Chair Miss Sharon Flood Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE (to July 2019) Lord Darzi of Denham in recognition as one of Professor Russell G Foster CBE Mrs Judith Donovan CBE (Observer until the world's leading surgeons. He holds the Mr Andreas J Goss (to July 2019) chair from August 2019) Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE (to July 2019) London, specialising in the field of minimally Professor Ajit Lalvani Members invasive and robot-assisted surgery. Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Ms Samira Ahmed Mr Iain McIntosh Ms Yvonne Baker (to May 2019) Dame Sally Davies in recognition of her Mrs Lopa Patel MBE Professor Brian Cantor CBE dedication to raising awareness of the problem Professor David A Phoenix OBE Dr Amanda Dickins (from May 2019) of Antimicrobial Resistance and assistance with Ms Sarah Staniforth CBE Dr Sarah Dry our Superbugs exhibition in her role as Chief Mr Steven Underwood The Baroness Eaton DBE Medical Officer and UK Special Envoy. Mr Anton Valk CBE Professor Elizabeth Edwards Dame Fiona Woolf DBE Ms Kersten England CBE Sir John Gurdon in recognition for his work as Dr Joanna Foster (from July 2019) a developmental biologist, pioneering research Mrs Sally Joynson in nuclear transplantation and cloning; was OUR DISTINGUISHED ADVISERS Dr Annette Nabavi awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Ms Nicki Sheard Science Museum advisory board Sir Gregory Winter in recognition of his Locomotion advisory board contributions to medicine and chemistry, Chair leading key antibody research and developing Professor Russell G Foster CBE Chair technologies for an entirely new class of drugs Professor Ludmilla Jordanova to benefit humankind. Members Mrs Jane Atkinson Members Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE (to July 2019) Cllr Joy Allen (from August 2019) Dr Hannah Fry (from July 2019) Mr Philip Benham Professor Lucie Green Mr Simon Bradley Rt Hon. Lord Kitchin Ms Rowan Brown

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GAIA GAIA

‘I hope visitors to Gaia get to see the Earth as if from space; an 93% incredibly beautiful and Proportion precious place’ of National Luke Jerram Science and Media Museum visitors who engaged with the installation EARTHLY POWERS

A beautiful installation by the artist Luke Jerram at our Bradford museum recreates the sense of awe that astronauts feel when they see Earth from space

A very special artwork featured Gaia recalls the first time an image in the National Science and Media of Earth, viewed in its entirety, was Museum’s Hello Universe produced – in a photograph taken exhibition, which explored the on NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972. sights and sounds of space in the 50th anniversary year of the first Jerram said: ‘I hope visitors Moon landing. to Gaia get to see the Earth as if from space; an incredibly beautiful Gaia, by Luke Jerram, is a visual and precious place. An ecosystem recreation of Earth as seen from we urgently need to look after – space, using detailed NASA imagery. our only home.’ It is 1.8 million times smaller than our planet, and each centimetre The installation is designed to create of the internally lit sculpture a sense of the ‘overview effect’, a describes 18km of Earth’s surface. term first coined by author Frank The sculpture's title comes from White in 1987 to describe the feeling Greek mythology – Gaia was the of overwhelming awe that astronauts personification of Earth and the experience when seeing Earth from name given to a highly influential space. According to White, the effect hypothesis about how our planet imparts a profound understanding behaves like a living organism. of the interconnection of all life, the fragility of our planet, and a Almost 86,000 visitors saw the renewed sense of responsibility revolving artwork during the for taking care of the environment. seven weeks it was suspended three metres above the floor in To complement the installation, a the National Science and Media specially made surround-sound Museum’s foyer. The piece has composition by Dan Jones, the also been seen at arts and science BAFTA-award-winning composer, Luke Jerram stands beneath festivals around the world. played alongside the exhibit. Gaia in the foyer of the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford In partnership with the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Bluedot, The Association for Science and Discovery Centres, Culture Liverpool and Liverpool Cathedral RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

COLLECTION HIGHLIGHT MECHANICALLY MARVELLOUS

An eccentric and beguiling kinetic ‘Rowland Emett regarded A Quiet sculpture by Rowland Emett is Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley delighting visitors at Locomotion as his finest work and I am delighted that it has found such a prestigious home, and will be available for Constructed in 1984, A Quiet Afternoon in Following this success, Emett focused future generations to enjoy’ the Cloud Cuckoo Valley is the last work on inventive sculptures and was later Jon Baddeley, global head of collectors' sales, Bonhams by one of Britain’s best-loved artists and commissioned to make the inventions sculptors, Rowland Emett (1906-90). This that were used in the 1968 film Chitty delightful moving sculpture has been saved Chitty Bang Bang. for the UK after being purchased for the Science Museum Group Collection, with the A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo support of Art Fund, the Science Museum Valley comprises eight separate machines Foundation, the Friends of the National that together tell the story of a journey Railway Museum and private donors. aboard the imaginary Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway. When the artwork Emett first came to prominence as a comes to life in the daily demonstrations, cartoonist for Punch but his career took a the automata wheels turn and colourful different path when his fanciful drawings characters go fishing, cycling and toast of locomotives were turned into real-life teacakes aboard a fantastical locomotive. versions as part of the celebrations for the The sculpture is one of Emett’s largest Festival of Britain in 1951. His miniature pieces and was originally commissioned 15in-gauge railway, which he called the for a shopping centre before being Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch exhibited at Spitalfields Market in London. Railway, was ultimately one of the most In 1999, while in storage, it was stolen popular attractions, carrying more than two for scrap metal, but was later recovered. million children through Battersea Pleasure Gardens during the course of the festival. A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley has since been refurbished and was exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire.

Currently on display at Locomotion, it will tour other Science Museum Group sites before being put on permanent display at the National Railway Museum.

Funders Art Fund, Science Museum Foundation, Friends of the National Railway Museum, The Richard Broyd Trust, Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli