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SMG INFLUENCE AROUND THE GLOBE 2012–13 Australia Germany South Korea Australia Ireland LIFT HERE Belgium Greece Spain Austria Italy Brazil Israel Sweden Belgium Netherlands The Brazilian Government’s request for advice from the Science Museum on Canada Italy Turkey Canada Norway the development of a new national science museum for Brazil, demonstrates Cyprus Japan Ukraine France Spain Czech Republic Mexico USA Germany USA the Museum’s world-leading reputation and I wish the venture every success Denmark Poland Hungary France Russia India DAVID WILLETTS UK SCIENCE MINISTER

USA FRANCE FRANCE SWITZERLAND GERMANY RUSSIA TURKEY The Science Museum is part of the Science Museum staff from the Among hundreds of items lent After close collaboration with The Deutsches Museum is SMG Director visited Russia SMG began a partnership NISEnet (Nanoscale Informal Science Learning, Contemporary Science and from SMG collections, the painting CERN the Science Museum is a co-partner with SMG in the to discuss potential partnerships with Santralistanbul to Education Network), a collaboration between Audience Research teams attended Coalbrookdale by Night (1801) went due to open Collider, a multimedia EU CEO Thinktank of seven public for 2014’s UK-Russia Year of Culture deliver an education training museums, science centres and universities the Ecsite Annual Conference in Toulouse to a Strasbourg retrospective of exhibition about the Large Hadron science museums in Europe when the Science Museum aims to programme in Istanbul and founded in 2005 by the NSF (National and delivered talks on our live projects, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. Collider, in November 2013. This (Belgium, France, Italy and UK) launch Cosmonauts, a major exhibition London. Our Mystery Box Science Foundation) and currently led partnerships and innovative learning Its glowing furnaces symbolise the will later tour the world about Russia’s exploration of space project in Turkey opened the by the Museum of Science, Boston practice to international colleagues birth of the Industrial Revolution door for further collaboration [see page 28]

SOUTH KOREA A training course for 30 Korean teachers was held at the Science Museum. We also welcomed a curator from the National Science Museum of Korea for six months’ study after being awarded the Korean Government Overseas USA AND CANADA Fellowship. Senior members Two Yorkshire-built A4 locomotives of our Learning team attended were lent to the National Railway the KOFAC STEAM conference Museum from Wisconsin and in Seoul, promoting creativity Montreal for the Mallard world- in science education record celebrations [see page 32] SIERRA LEONE JAPAN The National Railway NRM York cemented a Museum offers continuing relationship with the Railway USA advice to the Sierra Leone Museum in Saitama, Japan (we The Getty Conservation Institute, National Railway Museum signed a sisterhood agreement) Los Angeles, collaborates on and with Umekoji Steam a major partnership research Locomotive Museum, Kyoto project to investigate the National and the Modern Transportation Photography Collection held by Museum, Osaka the National Media Museum CHINA The SMG Learning team delivered science shows to audiences of 7000 people at USA the Science Alive festival in Along with the Smithsonian Hong Kong and southern China Institution in Washington DC and Deutsches Museum in Munich, SMG is a founding sponsor of the Artefacts consortium of museums. Its 17 members promote their collections as historical resources

BRAZIL The British Council hosted a round table with science learning practitioners in São Paulo to discuss ways of working together. SMG seeks to engage directly with education and communication professionals in Brazil to develop mutually beneficial opportunities INDIA ARGENTINA CAMEROON SMG Director made a study trip The UK and Brazilian governments SMG Director of Learning gave An expedition to Cameroon to Kolkata which inspired plans THAILAND signed a letter of intent to co-operate a talk about planning for science collected artefacts for the for a substantial temporary MOSI’s citizen science project AUSTRALIA on science communication and education as part of a UK Trade imminent new telecommunications SOUTH AFRICA exhibition at the Science Museum Turing’s Sunflowers pledged The National Media Museum education. SMG is advising on the and Investment visit to Buenos gallery, Information Age. A key We are continuing our relationship on the science of India, in 12,000 people to grow sunflowers lent iconic cinematography items new National Science Museum Aires. SMG is providing advice acquisition was a mobile phone with the UniZul Science Centre with collaboration with the Council in 13 countries around the world, to the Australian Centre for the in São Paulo [see page 43] for a new science centre call box [see page 67] exchanges to London in the near future of Science Museums in India among them Thailand Moving Image, Melbourne THE BIGGEST MUSEUM ALLIANCE IN SCIENCE

Dr Douglas Gurr, Chairman of the Science Museum Group, welcomes the warm reception that has greeted our new ambitions during 2012–13 and the energy that drives them

ast year we decided to publish while looking after 600,000 booked an Annual Review for the first educational visits, which is so important L time in many years to reflect when it comes to inspiring the next the extraordinary creativity of the generation of scientists and engineers Group. We felt that our Museums who will drive the economy. We hope were hiding their light under that, one day, every British schoolchild several bushels and that such a will pass through one of our Museums. document would make us more accountable and aid us in raising This Review is brimming with the resources needed to meet our interesting stories that convey the ambitions. Happily, the response to innovative spirit of the Group, from the this experiment from decision-makers discovery of the world’s oldest colour was impressively positive. Many cine film at the National Media were surprised by our nationwide Museum, to the Manchester Science reach across five sites – in London, Festival organised by the Museum Manchester, York, Bradford of Science & Industry, Railfest at the and Shildon – as well as the National Railway Museum, and our breathtaking diversity of our work partnership agreement with Brazil. and our global aspirations. These achievements are all the We also received a warm response to more impressive when you realise the publication of Strategic Ambitions, that our Government funding support in which the Science Museum outlined will soon have fallen by one quarter in its priorities until 2022: climate science real terms over five years, more than and sustainability; the history and double the reduction endured by the future of medicine; mathematics and science base. Yet I remain confident informatics (including the science of that, thanks to the drive and energy of data); and understanding the universe. Director Ian Blatchford, we can expect the impact and stature of the Group This Group is now the biggest to continue to grow in years to come. alliance of science museums in the world. The past year saw 5.1 million visits to our Museums and, just as important, the surge to more than 20 million visits online. The Science Museum alone achieved a record 3.1 million visits and a rise to 14 million online. We have also grown our independent adult audience

1 CONTENTS SMG ANNUAL REVIEW 2012–13

I am amazed at the Group’s ability to keep faith with the serious purposes The Science Museum is exploring new and remits of the variety of museums under its charge whilst increasing visit ways to bring the theatre and drama numbers. Squaring this circle while having to cut our costs is the challenge ahead of cutting-edge physics to the public

LORD GRADE SMG TRUSTEE, NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM ADVISORY BOARD PROFESSOR ROLF-DIETER HEUER DIRECTOR GENERAL OF CERN 10 4 36 18 28 6 46

4 Director’s introduction: 26 A fillip for scholarship 60 Bright ideas don’t fund themselves Maximising our impact 27 Oral history comes into its own 62 Acquisitions: The world’s most surprising collection 6 A brave stand on Turing 42 Celebrating women who excel 66 Core themes for the next decade 10 Unearthed: Movie gems in our vaults 43 New deals, new friends abroad 76 Take a note, Mr Pepys – Certainly, Your Majesty 12 A flagship for contemporary science 44 MOSI’s bold new masterplan 18 Railfest creates networking landmark 50 Digerati break one record after another Appendix 20 Web Lab: Chiming with human ingenuity 51 A magnet for young adults Our five Museums in profile 22 Science Festival lights up Manchester 52 Year of the volunteer 24 Happy anniversary, BBC 53 Inventive trio in residence 68 Science Museum (SM), London 28 Spreading our learning expertise 54 Bragg centenary of crystallography 69 Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI), Manchester 32 Old friends visit for conservation 55 Yet more access for all 70 National Railway Museum (NRM), York and Shildon 34 SMG is the place to be 56 Learn how to shunt 71 National Media Museum (NMeM), Bradford 36 Crossing the frontiers of culture 57 Biggest horn in Britain? 72 Our generous supporters 45 Join the debate: Why science matters 58 BIFF and the UNESCO City of Film 74 Who’s who behind our family of Museums 46 The joys of curating 12 24 58 Summer of Olympic thrills 75 SMG visit numbers and financial summary

2 3 SMG ANNUAL REVIEW 2012–13 “ PARTNERSHIP WORKING IS OUR DEFAULT SETTING, IT MAXIMISES IMPACT AND SECURES REAL VALUE

Ian Blatchford, Director and Chief Executive of the Science Museum Group, believes that investing in robust collaborations is the way to ensure science and engineering play central roles in generating prosperity Director Ian Blatchford showing Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff the Codebreaker exhibition

ast year I declared that it was That is why we have vowed to Orchestra’s daring digital installation, Industry in Manchester about perspective on the science time for the Science Museum work with the best national partners. in which visitors could conduct a modern engineering careers. of sustainability. Our Learning L Group to punch its weight, Waffle about synergy has become virtual symphony orchestra, and team worked with science and because the nation’s future prosperity hackneyed, so I prefer to talk about experience performing Holst’s The Our impressive education work has cultural foundations in South and quality of life depend on an amplification. Strong partnerships Planets under the baton of Esa- been boosted by partnerships with Africa, South Korea and Turkey; urgent commitment to science and mean that the great organisations Pekka Salonen. Both the orchestra BP and the BG Group. Not only will and the National Railway Museum engineering. One year on, the Group work together to increase and Museum fundraising teams this expand our outreach work signed a prestigious agreement feels like a vital player in science signal strength. collaborated to secure the funding for across the country, but both with the Railway Museum in engagement and inspiration. We do the project (the kind of cooperation companies are taking a long-term Saitama, Tokyo and the East not have all the solutions, but we are There are many examples in this still too rare in the cultural sector) view about impact. They share our Japan Railways Culture Foundation. a major national force and will Review of working with the best. and the project won the Audience regret about the scarcity of good The National Media Museum in have the greatest impact through Such as the way the Group led and Engagement prize at the Royal academic research into educational Bradford made worldwide partnerships, internationalism and a unique collaboration with the Philharmonic Society Music Awards. practice, and are sponsoring new headlines by announcing the doing work of real substance. GREAT campaign (based at 10 research with two universities. The discovery of the world’s oldest Downing Street), the Department Interesting young people in careers Group is also working for the first moving colour pictures. Partnership working is our default of Business Innovation and Skills in engineering has also been a time with the Prince’s Trust after setting. It maximises impact and (with whom we mounted the crucial theme over the past year. pop star will.i.am urged us to team Above all we pledged ourselves secures real value for money, and Make it in Great Britain exhibition), Our High Performance festival up; and he launched the project anew to academic and scientific ought to be the best show in town. The Royal Society, Royal Academy brought together women engineers with a passionate plea for substance. There could be no I am often driven to intense irritation of Engineering, Engineering UK from many manufacturing and disadvantaged children to have better symbol than mounting by a national landscape blasted by and the British Science Association industry backgrounds, to offer a access to STEM subjects. Codebreaker: Alan Turing’s too many initiatives of scant value; to organise a vote for the greatest surprising insight into inspiring Life and Legacy, marking the too many public bodies, learned British innovations, which has working lives, and encourage more Our new relish for international centenary of the birth of the great societies and companies ploughing left a legacy in the form of a website young women to think about these cooperation brings the best science mathematician and computer on regardless of what others are now in use by GREAT worldwide. options. Building on this, we are and engineering to our audiences, pioneer. It tackled his achievements doing; and a dreadful dearth of good working with the Royal Academy and promotes British science and and personal life with such evidence about what works. Good- Partnerships with outstanding arts of Engineering, National Grid and expertise. We are working with the intelligence and verve. ness knows what the schoolchildren organisations will bring new audiences many major companies to create Brazilian government to create a and adults of Britain are supposed to science. The Science Museum hosted a provocative exhibition in London science museum in São Paulo and, The Group is getting its message to make of this blizzard. Universe of Sound, the Philharmonia and at the Museum of Science & just as important, getting their across loud and clear.

4 5 A BRAVE STAND ON TURING One event symbolises the Group’s new approach: the exhibition marking the birth centenary of Alan Turing, the British code-breaker, mathematician and computer pioneer who helped shorten the Second World War CONTINUED

Viewing wreckage of Comet G-ALYP at the Codebreaker exhibition: Curator David Rooney, Lord Grade, Baroness Northover, Lord Smith, Viscount Montgomery, Lord Harris, Baroness Jones, Lord Dobbs and Baroness Trumpington who lost friends aboard the doomed jetliner

6 7 Opposite: Conservator Bryony Finn readying the Pilot ACE computer for the A BRAVE STAND ON TURING Codebreaker exhibition; bottles of Stilboestrol tablets used for chemical castration; Dorothy Hodgkin’s model for vitamin B12, facilitated by high-speed computation

This page: View of the Codebreaker gallery; Mick Jagger’s Enigma machine; and Alan Turing himself, who asked ‘Can machines think?’

Jean, the former cipher clerk, revisited her wartime memories I am indecently proud among a group of peers as guests of the Director. Now Baroness of the way curators Trumpington, she says: ‘When I went and designers tackled his to Bletchley there were 400 people scientific achievements and there; when I left there were 6000.’ complex personal life with The peers moved through the intensely such intelligence and verve affecting displays of Enigma machines, IAN BLATCHFORD SMG DIRECTOR personal effects and other scientific ean Campbell-Harris was 18 when breakthroughs accelerated by the jet airliner. In 1954, Baroness Trumpington she went to work in naval intelligence calculating power of the Pilot ACE, had lost two friends who were on J at Bletchley Park, the country house one of the world’s first ‘universal’ their honeymoon when Comet G-ALYP secretly assigned to breaking enemy electronic computers devised by crashed, the very jet from which the codes during the Second World War Turing in 1945. Even more poignant Museum’s fragment comes. Again, it was when U-boats were sinking Merchant was wreckage from the world’s first high-speed analysis by the Pilot ACE that Navy ships which were keeping Britain helped reveal metal fatigue as the cause. alive. ‘The two major historical events This computer, donated to the Science of the 20th century that took place at CASTING MYSELF IN Museum, remains the most significant Bletchley were the development of the TURING’S FRAME OF MIND Turing artefact in existence. science of cryptology and the first digital Why did Alan Turing apparently electronic computer,’ she says. take his own life at the age of 41 Codebreaker’s absorbing and personal after arrest and chemical castration, milestones confirm the new direction ‘I was a cipher clerk in a team of six. while in the midst of important the Science Museum Group determined Yes, we were aware of the enormity of work? David Rooney, curator of the to set last year by reassembling what we did. Germany could have starved Codebreaker exhibition, believes James Watt’s workshop: a scholarly Britain within two years and won the war. we can understand Turing only by assessment of key artefacts from our But the German U-boat code was broken.’ examining his life as a homosexual own collections, combined with insights man in the mid 20th century and why into the complex life of an exceptional The specific triumph of cracking the he admitted his ‘crime’ so readily. scientist who shaped the modern world. Enigma machine codes served to Rooney invited 15 members of the shorten the war, yet was not disclosed charity group Opening Doors The tragedy surrounding Turing’s until the 1970s. And the British London to discuss the prejudice death, precipitated by the law’s ruling genius responsible – Alan Turing, facing gay adults in the 1950s. on his homosexuality, is examined mathematician, computer pioneer and He says: ‘Their heartbreaking frankly here. This sophisticated slice philosopher who asked ‘Can machines experiences made the exhibition of history has won the highly prestigious think?’ – was long dead by then. materially different because it gave Great Exhibitions prize from the British us the confidence to present Society for the History of Science. When the Science Museum celebrated Turing’s life without flinching.’ It also prompted several complaint the centenary of his birth with the letters wondering why the exhibition Codebreaker exhibition last summer, was not even larger.

8 9 Cine film of Edward Turner’s children in about 1901, discovered in the National Media Museum Beautiful, amazing, archives by Michael Harvey, Curator of Cinematography [far right] probably the closest thing we’ll get to a time machine going back in time

MARTIN SCORSESE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR AND FILM HISTORIAN

enewed dedication to colour moving pictures – the Lee goldfish was stunning: its colours our collections and research and Turner film, part of the National were so lifelike and subtle. Then STAR TURNS IN PHOTOGRAPHY ‘R means a treasure hunt has only Cinematography Collection. Its there was a macaw with brilliantly UNEARTHED: just begun,’ declares Group Director significance became clear only when coloured plumage, a brief glimpse The first solo exhibition of Ian Blatchford. Few museums know researchers digitised the frames, of soldiers marching and, most Tom Wood’s photographs precisely what lies buried in their revealing vivid moving colour images interestingly, young children celebrated the pleasures of MOVIE GEMS stores and the SMG possesses created in 1901 and rewriting the dressed in Edwardian finery. photography and his diary-like more than 7 million objects. Over the history of cinema.’ fascination with people decades the National Media Museum ‘Lee and Turner’s complex encountered on the streets, IN OUR VAULTS has received many profoundly On discovering the film, Michael three-colour process had always in pubs [left], markets, work important donations which represent Harvey, Curator of Cinematography been regarded by film historians places and parks of Merseyside. Curators discovered the the dawn of photography and cinema at the Bradford museum, worked as a practical failure, but we now Eighty of his vintage prints were and individual pioneers in both with film archive experts Brian discovered that it worked.’ acquired for the Museum, world’s first moving pictures media. Quality, depth and prestige Pritchard, David Cleveland and the one of the largest acquisitions in colour at the National make the collections unique in the BFI National Archive to reconstruct Paul Goodman, Head of from a living photographer. Media Museum and made world and only the curiosity and the moving footage in colour Collections and Projects at the international headlines diligence of curatorial staff will following the precise method laid National Media Museum, said: ‘This Lee and Turner redefine Art of Arrangement: Photography unearth the hidden gems. out in Lee and Turner’s 1899 patent. wonderful rediscovery highlights where cinematography and the Still Life Tradition was the untapped potential of the a beautiful show comparing Head of Museum, Jo Quinton-Tulloch, Michael Harvey said: ‘We sat in the Museum’s collection, as well as had got to… a truly, truly themes in early photographs Watch the Lee and Turner footage says: ‘The Museum attracted editing suite entranced as full-colour its leading role in validating and amazing image drawn from the Museum’s international attention when it shots made 110 years ago came to challenging received wisdom in a documentary clip on YouTube: LORD PUTTNAM collection alongside oil paintings youtu.be/XekGVQM33ao revealed the discovery of the earliest life on the screen. The image of the about the subject matter.’ FILM PRODUCER AND EDUCATOR from Leeds Museums.

10 11 SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP ANNUAL REVIEW 2012 –13 SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP ANNUAL REVIEW 2012 –13 A tarantula poised on a vial for extraction of its venom as a superdrug: displayed at the Pain Less exhibition on the future of pain relief ‘PAIN LESS’ A FLAGSHIP FOR ANTENNA Our Contemporary Science team not only mount topical displays such as Pain Less, reporting on the latest advances. They also invite university researchers into the Museum to enlist visitors as massive data sets

LIFT HERE

12 17 Pain Less at the Science Museum... Clockwise from right: Researching Pain Less resulted: a difficult subject for different audiences, so out of the Anticlockwise: Showing how a spider What Makes Your Walk Unique? as consciousness research for Pain Less is ‘milked’... On video, anaesthetist part of Live Science... Listen Up! was scrutinised with profound intelligence BE A GUINEA PIG ‘PAIN LESS’ A FLAGSHIP FOR ANTENNA Dr Andrew Morley discusses the studied how people hear speech... and input from chronic pain sufferers sprang ZombieLab.’ This long weekend effects of sedation with patient Antenna website... Bionic Man, who contributed a visual artwork, and festival, which embraced a Lates Live Science is a pod for Carol Pretorius... Student Melvin assembled by Darlow Smithson Year 9 students who created a game on Wednesday, brought in 12,000 young hosting live experiments volunteered to suffer pain for a brain Productions... Richard Bosner in the Wellcome Trust’s imaging study... Fragmented Lines, demonstrating Octobot the theme of pain. Most affecting were adults! Researchers from the Sackler a film co-created by adults living four documentary videos produced Centre for Consciousness Science, Who am I? gallery: here with pain... Virtual-reality games Cambridge, UCL and Essex universities Oxford Brookes University explored creating a moving virtual in-house to tell personal stories and to arm to help relieve pain show techniques in research and pain dived in to collaborate. identified the characteristics treatments. For Heather Mayfield, of a person’s walk... Queen Deputy Director of the Museum, Pain Less Nilsson said: ‘Antenna is a kind of Mary psychologists played proved to be, ‘a considered amalgamation translation service to make science the ultimate game of greed ZombieLab sounds like of co-creation, anaesthetists and accessible and the zombies were a hook. to test human empathy... ‘science lite’, but here contemporary research’. Even when we created experiences, Cambridge University’s were real robust scientific as we did in ZombieLab involving arts Listen Up! measured how people hear and understand experiments happening on the ‘The research was the easy part; running collectives, we embed real science into the co-creation groups was a steep them and you’d never call it dumbing speech at different ages. floor of the Science Museum learning curve,’ said Katrina Nilsson, down. That’s what makes us special.’ Emily Scott-Dearing Head of Contemporary Science. ‘We’re From Washington DC, the Smithsonian Head of Exhibitions and Programmes always keen to repurpose invested effort tweeted: ‘Why don’t we do stuff like this?’

he sheer energy and research Not to mention sundry forums in the STEP UP AND CHAT resulting from the Contemporary Dana Centre and a highly responsive T Science department’s main output website. Oh, and organising Katrina Nilsson is extremely is breathtaking in the Wellcome Wing communication skills training for proud that the Contemporary of the Science Museum. The past 16 engineers who were involved in Science team made ours the year yielded 27 major outcomes – ten the Summer of Sport. Their verdict: first Museum to buy its own updates to Topic Zones (new exhibits, ‘We didn’t realise engaging with Talkaoke, a doughnut-shaped one of which examined prosthetic limbs the public could be so informal!’ desk with a scientist trained for Paralympians), seven Antenna to facilitate in the middle of an Live events (scientists on-site with By museum standards, the intimate circle of visitors on their kit, say, letting children shake Contemporary team moves fast bar stools asking questions. hands with a robot octopus while when tackling zeitgeisty issues – ‘It attracts crowds like a parents quizzed its inventors), four deconstructing the Higgs boson triumph homing beacon,’ she says. Live Science experiments in residence at CERN, say. Even a feature exhibition ‘It’s a live chat show.’ such as Listen Up! [see box, right], three can be researched and on the floor updates to Who am I? (the biomedical within nine months. A proposal to gallery, where the Bionic Man was explore anaesthesia, where there’s displayed), two festivals including High little fresh research, was refocused Performance [see page 42] – oh, and a into a survey of pain and consciousness, prestige feature exhibition, Pain Less. where there’s much more.

13 14 15 16 Pain Less at the Science Museum... Clockwise from right: Researching Pain Less resulted: a difficult subject for different audiences, so out of the Anticlockwise: Showing how a spider What Makes Your Walk Unique? as consciousness research for Pain Less is ‘milked’... On video, anaesthetist part of Live Science... Listen Up! was scrutinised with profound intelligence BE A GUINEA PIG ‘PAIN LESS’ A FLAGSHIP FOR ANTENNA Dr Andrew Morley discusses the studied how people hear speech... and input from chronic pain sufferers sprang ZombieLab.’ This long weekend effects of sedation with patient Antenna website... Bionic Man, who contributed a visual artwork, and festival, which embraced a Lates Live Science is a pod for Carol Pretorius... Student Melvin assembled by Darlow Smithson Year 9 students who created a game on Wednesday, brought in 12,000 young hosting live experiments volunteered to suffer pain for a brain Productions... Richard Bosner in the Wellcome Trust’s imaging study... Fragmented Lines, demonstrating Octobot the theme of pain. Most affecting were adults! Researchers from the Sackler a film co-created by adults living four documentary videos produced Centre for Consciousness Science, Who am I? gallery: here with pain... Virtual-reality games Cambridge, UCL and Essex universities Oxford Brookes University explored creating a moving virtual in-house to tell personal stories and to arm to help relieve pain show techniques in research and pain dived in to collaborate. identified the characteristics treatments. For Heather Mayfield, of a person’s walk... Queen Deputy Director of the Museum, Pain Less Nilsson said: ‘Antenna is a kind of Mary psychologists played proved to be, ‘a considered amalgamation translation service to make science the ultimate game of greed ZombieLab sounds like of co-creation, anaesthetists and accessible and the zombies were a hook. to test human empathy... ‘science lite’, but here contemporary research’. Even when we created experiences, Cambridge University’s were real robust scientific as we did in ZombieLab involving arts Listen Up! measured how people hear and understand experiments happening on the ‘The research was the easy part; running collectives, we embed real science into the co-creation groups was a steep them and you’d never call it dumbing speech at different ages. floor of the Science Museum learning curve,’ said Katrina Nilsson, down. That’s what makes us special.’ Emily Scott-Dearing Head of Contemporary Science. ‘We’re From Washington DC, the Smithsonian Head of Exhibitions and Programmes always keen to repurpose invested effort tweeted: ‘Why don’t we do stuff like this?’

13 14 15 16 Clockwise: Sir Nigel Gresley, built 1937, arriving for Railfest... Volunteer boiler- smith Gordon Reed and Explainer Laura The National Railway Hester aboard City of Truro... Expectant visitors to Railfest... Annual Dinner with Museum is the world’s RAILFEST Network Rail’s David Higgins, Great premier museum in its field. Central’s Nigel Harris and former NRM Director Steve Davies We may be based in York and CREATES Shildon but our reach embraces the modern rail industry and NETWORKING partnerships across the globe PAUL KIRKMAN NRM DIRECTOR

LANDMARK to examine development of the Museum over the next decade. He says: ‘We A who’s who of Britain’s have appointed the exhibition designers rail industry came to Metaphor to provide a fresh set of eyes York to celebrate a new and a blueprint that challenges how the golden age of rail organisation thinks. For instance, it will allow for increased vehicle access and better integration of smaller objects within the Great Hall. iabolical rain did not deter 34,000 ‘The Museum remains a key part of people from visiting the National York tourism, with 59% of our general Railway Museum during Railfest, D admissions coming from outside the Britain’s biggest ever gathering of rail region. The visitor’s experience can record-breakers. The nine-day event only grow richer than ever.’ in York last summer embraced the Track Stars exhibition which united 30 renowned railway vehicles such as Flying Scotsman, Mallard, a high- speed Class 395, East Coast’s 91110 and Tornado. A team of 150 volunteers worked more than 5000 hours during the festival to explain the importance of the rolling stock to visitors and to OTHER NRM HIGHLIGHTS facilitate access to cabs and carriage interiors. Even on the preview day, The Royal Scot class steam when the sun was shining, VIPs saw the locomotive Scots Guardsman project for the logistical triumph it was. carried the Olympic flame from the Museum in York to Thirsk as This was no sentimental celebration part of the Olympic Torch relay of a bygone age of steam, for Railfest and then continued to NRM Shildon. signalled a transport renaissance. In December we cemented our A remarkable dinner sponsored by relationship with the Railway Museum Eversholt Rail, Network Rail and Siemens in Saitama, Japan, with the signing gathered top brass from the rail of a sisterhood agreement between industry, heritage and tourism sectors. the two museums.

Addressing key representatives of rail The Tornado Story is an exhibition engineering and operating companies at Shildon exploring the building of Britain’s newest main-line – from Arriva and Abellio to Northern, steam locomotive, Peppercorn Systra and the Tyseley Locomotive Works Class A1 Tornado. – the after-dinner speaker, Sir David Higgins, Chief Executive of Network Rail, Two North American A4s were declared: ‘We really are in a golden age, welcomed by 8000 visitors at Shildon, and should make the most of it.’ ahead of Mallard celebrations in the summer of 2013 [see page 32]. During the past year NRM’s Director Steve Davies was succeeded by Paul Kirkman who announced a Masterplan

18 19 Connecting visitors with a global web World Wide Web. Rather amazingly, community: the Universal Orchestra [left], the Teleporter live stream visitors from across the planet [below] and Sketchbot [below right] can also participate online at chromeweblab.com.

Web Lab’s five unique, continuous web-based experiments have been WEB FACTOIDS improved over the exhibition’s year of A follow-up Science Museum life. They are the Data Tracer image survey to Web Lab found that 8 search, the Lab Tag Explorer, the out of 10 young people ‘feel lost’ Universal Orchestra (demonstrating without the internet, while 40% of how web sockets enable two-way people have taught themselves to communication), the Teleporter live cook using the web. One in three stream (showing compression can people surveyed would choose the transmit large amounts of data), internet over television, with 60% and arguably the favourite for many describing the internet as one of visitors, the Sketchbot that can draw the most important inventions of your face in sand (showing how the the 20th century. web uses computer languages to tell machines what to do).

SMG Director Ian Blatchford says: ‘Our adventurous collaboration with Google produces a brilliant physical realisation of how the internet works and shapes our lives. It is a visual feast, insightful and fun.’

he interactive Web Lab was designed by Google, the search T giant, to showcase the modern CHIMING web experience. Its USP ‘chimes with human ingenuity’ by creating a physical exhibition that explores WITH HUMAN the connection between Science Museum visitors in the gallery and online users anywhere in the INGENUITY world via a website, and so form a global community. Within six months, Enter Web Lab, a series 4.5 million people had visited online, plus 200,000 in the flesh, and Web of interactive experiments Lab has won awards from SXSW, devised by Google that AAM Media & Technology and was It’s wonderful to follow reveal the workings of the a Webby Honoree. the constant evolution internet in both the real and rejuvenation of exhibits The exhibition is for children aged and virtual worlds 8–14 accompanied by parents or and whole galleries, with teachers to understand how data exciting developments and flows across frontiers. They can frequent changes even compose and play music, PROFESSOR DAME ATHENE DONALD exploiting both the internet and the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, SMG TRUSTEE

20 21 Clockwise from left: Gina Czarnecki’s Wasted Works... Planting sunflower The SMG does a fantastic seeds for the Citizen Science experiment... Matt Parker’s and really important domino computer... job in communicating science. Punk Science stand-ups... Professor Helen Storey I was so proud to host a dinner and the Field of Jeans recently for international scientists at the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester and show them local discoveries

Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell President and Vice-Chancellor Manchester University

01 Manchester to commemorate Alan Turing’s unfinished work on sunflowers. Participants were invited to grow sunflowers and record the occurrence of a Fibonacci sequence in the seed heads. Over 12,000 sunflowers were pledged in 13 countries, and the largest sample ever amassed to research this phenomenon did indeed find a mathematical sequence in 93% of sunflower spirals. The project was managed by Erinma Ochu, a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellow. She will be a researcher in residence to advise on our next Citizen Science project.

One fascinating live experiment saw mathematician Matt Parker design the first domino computer on the floor of the Revolution he sixth Manchester Science Manchester gallery at MOSI and, Festival, produced by MOSI as the standing dominoes fell, they T in October, attracted 86,000 carried out a series of calculations. SCIENCE visits over nine days of events across Greater Manchester and its four MOSI also hosted Field of Jeans, universities. These included 25,000 a display of catalytic clothing which FESTIVAL visits to the Museum. brought together fashion designer Professor Helen Storey from Director Jean Franczyk galvanised London College of Fashion and LIGHTS UP efforts to cement the Festival’s chemist Professor Tony Ryan from reputation by bringing in a Sheffield University. Jean Franczyk programme of collaborative events says: ‘A stunning installation in our MANCHESTER that starred the University of Upper Yard demonstrated science Manchester’s Nobel prizewinning at work and science as culture.’ graphene team explaining how to make the new form of carbon, and During the festival, the top floor Professor Tara Shears talking on the of the 1830 Warehouse continued hunt for the Higgs boson at CERN. to prove itself ideal for installations and feature pieces such as A Museum highlight was the Gina Czarnecki’s Palaces. In the citizen science mass experiment evenings, we even experimented developed with Professor Jonathan with a programme of science- Swinton and the University of fiction movie screenings there.

22 23 his is 2LO, London Broadcasting including acting BBC Director General Damon Albarn [main picture] and Simon Mayo seen broadcasting from the Station calling!’ On 14 November Tim Davie, and a new display, The Voice Science Museum, and [below] a ‘meat safe’ RADIO RELICS ACQUIRED BY NMeM ‘T 1922 at 17.33 GMT, that call of the BBC, displaying parts of the microphone from the 2LO studio 90 CRACKLING sign marked the first British original 2LO transmitter and a huge BBC Broadcasting Company transmitter, microphone that was known as a ‘meat 2LO, crackling into life thanks to 22,500 safe’. During 2002 the Science Museum YEARS volts of electricity. Radio listening reached an agreement with the BBC was to change from a specialist hobby and Crown Castle International Ltd, to a national pastime. Ninety years the owners of 2LO, for the transmitter Beside the Museum’s later, at exactly the same time, a to be donated to the Museum. display of the original specially commissioned piece of music 2LO transmitter valves, composed by singer-songwriter and This temporary display explored record producer Damon Albarn was how early radio underwent a rapid Damon Albarn introduced simultaneously broadcast via BBC transformation. In 2014 we will a 90th birthday radio stations to 120 million people across move the 2LO transmitter to its new salute to the BBC. Through the globe. This was an ambitious permanent home in Information Age: all of today’s BBC radio first for the BBC and a great way to Six networks that changed the world, services, the world listened. celebrate the enduring power of radio. our new communications gallery, which is currently under construction. Art, science, magic. The broadcast was part of a special Unforgettable edition of Radio 2’s Simon Mayo Listen to the full 90th anniversary

GILLIAN REYNOLDS RADIO CRITIC AND Drivetime show, live from the Science show here: bbc.co.uk/news/ MEMBER OF NMeM ADVISORY BOARD Museum in front of invited guests, entertainment-arts-20338770

he relics of early broadcasting by early British film-maker Louis shown here are part of the BBC Blattner, which used 6 mm steel tape T Heritage Collection: 946 historical to record sound (notably the voice of broadcasting objects celebrating Neville Chamberlain as he announced 90 years of BBC history which have the outbreak of the Second World been donated to the National Media War to the nation in 1939); two Museum, a selection being displayed original Emitron television cameras in Bradford and at the Science (1936); and the objects on display in Museum in London. Experience TV.

The Collection is a fascinating mixture of props and day-to-day artefacts from the life of the BBC as Britain’s first official broadcaster, founded in 1922 by a private consortium of six radio manufacturers to stimulate the sales of radio sets. That these objects have survived is largely down to the efforts of BBC staff with an eye on history and the future, those who saved things for posterity. The majority are stored at the Science From top: Blattnerphone, 1932, designed by Louis Museum Group’s main storage Blattner, one of the earliest recording machines... facility in Wroughton (near Swindon), Marconi-Reisz microphone used in the BBC effects while some of the objects are being studio... Cellist Beatrice Harrison performing with the birds in her Surrey garden as an annual stored in Bradford. These include broadcast from 1924... Table-top television screen the Blattnerphone (1930), designed magnifier, used to enlarge picture, 1950–55

24 25 A FILLIP FOR ORAL HISTORY SCHOLARSHIP COMES INTO It has been thrilling ITS OWN to observe the many successes of the Research and Meeting eyewitnesses Public History Department, influences the way and especially its impressive you write exhibition labels record in attracting funds to DR TILLY BLYTH support doctoral studentships SM KEEPER OF TECHNOLOGIES AND ENGINEERING

PROFESSOR LUDMILLA JORDANOVA HISTORIAN AND SMG TRUSTEE buzz phrase in the museum world is oral history as a way A of delving into people’s interests ne fantastic breakthrough this and motivations. NRM York has year was being awarded funding added theatre to Station Hall with for 24 collaborative doctorates an ambient soundtrack of chuffing ‘O engines, but also asked passengers by the Arts and Humanities Research Council,’ said Ian Blatchford, SMG to reminisce about yesteryear. Director. ‘These funds mean that This generated 700 such anecdotes the brightest researchers can now which you now find posted around the research more remarkable special trains as photographs and postcards. exhibitions for our public.’ But if you’re trying to explain It is only a year since the Museum how a vintage plug-and-socket formally launched the Research telephone exchange worked why and Public History Department, with not bring together some vintage Dr Tim Boon heading its mission to telephone operators? The curators promote research on our collections. planning the Science Museum’s He said: ‘The £1.4 million award for new Information Age gallery so many AHRC doctorates over the decided to return to Enfield a next three years – more than any other 1920s manual telephone eligible institution – represents a huge switchboard that we had collected vote of confidence in our ability to from there in 1960. come up with good ideas. We can start growing the next generation of curators, As the centrepiece of a pop-up and doctoral projects are a way of display called ‘Number Please?’ enticing the most promising scholars. it attracted 15 former members Alison Hess is one example – her of staff from the Enfield telephone thesis on the BBC’s first transmitter exchange and dozens of others. informed our 2LO display.’ With 90 minutes of film and a cream tea as bait, they were happy to talk A survey of creative technologists about their daily routines. by Nesta and the Science Museum called for a 21st-century equivalent Curator Tilly Blyth said the of the Computer Literacy Project of Museum is creating a UK Oral History the 1980s which generated significant Collection and the Enfield project economic benefits. is one among many. ‘Talking to the inventors of technology is the usual Dr Tilly Blyth, a Museum keeper and way of tackling its history, but this author of ‘The Legacy of the BBC Micro’, is a more social process – seeing said: ‘Without this, we risk losing a From top: Britain’s first digital electronic Nostalgic stories: at NRM Norman Kemp contributed the use of those machines as part generation of creative programmers computer Colossus, to feature in AHRC- a photo of himself on honeymoon and a luggage of their history and giving those funded studentship... Researcher Alison display tells of a girl’s solo journey by train and potential entrepreneurs skilled Hess... York workshop in the PHoSTEM Above right: reunion by former telephonists in Enfield, people a voice whereas before they up for the digital age.’ Research Network 2012, and manual telephone exchange in Enfield, 1960 would have gone unheard.’

26 27 Science Museum Live on Tour! is a 60-minute theatrical adventure that introduces visitors to the wonders of science with dangerous demonstrations, extraordinary experiments and spectacle. In October, 3000 people saw SMG SPREADS the show over three weeks in the IMAX ITS LEARNING EXPERTISE

The Group’s learning activities are hugely popular, with more than 600,000 booked education visitors and 1.7 million participants for demos, shows and workshops in the past year. That’s why the Royal Society is keen to work more closely with the SMG museums

SIR PAUL NURSE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY

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28 29 Clockwise: Buckinghamshire and sophisticated and we’d do them a from primary to secondary education students tackle climate change disservice if we don’t challenge them.’ is a crucial point when interest in SMG SPREADS ITS LEARNING EXPERTISE with splatter guns... Outreach team science can fall off.’ demonstrating at Whitehaven... Science Museum Learning is In 2013 we launched Enterprising supporting a schools partnership Science, a five-year partnership with The ongoing Climate Science Outreach aboard SS Great Britain in Bristol... BP and King’s College London. Project in 50 schools across the UK Atmos magazine written by students on the Climate Science Outreach We’ll be working with 2000 teachers completed its second year with students Project... Teacher Zone workshops at nationwide, and researching what investigating climate topics and writing Lates... Mystery Boxes developed by shapes young people’s attitudes a superb magazine titled Atmos. Its Talk Science and sold as teaching aids to science and science careers. third year saw 60 schools focusing on face-to-face science communication, SMG invests in education, which in one case proved to involve communications and audience splatter guns. research: we deliver teacher development and seminars with Our reputation grows for science academics and museum educators communication consultancy and helping to explore ways our collections can set up museums internationally. This support teaching. Building Bridges year we visited South Korea, Turkey, is an important three-year workshop Malta, Saudi Arabia and staged science project, funded by the BG Group, to shows at a British Council-funded increase science literacy among 11- festival in Hong Kong and southern to 12-year-olds, their teachers and China. Santralistanbul arts complex in families in five London boroughs. Turkey went online to buy our Dr Burch says: ‘That year in transition Mystery Boxes, a teaching aid which promotes the scientific method as a thinking process. In response Karen Davies, Head of Learning Resources, went to Istanbul to shape a programme of workshops.

he SMG Learning department excels at igniting an interest T in science and engineering. Teachers are the first to seek out our Learning experts for their unbeatable hands-on experience, research and classroom resources.

Director of Learning Dr Alex Burch says: ‘The SMG team works locally and internationally in strategic partnerships and with academic rigour to share our findings with the informal science learning sector. We know how important STEM subjects are to the UK and we are good at removing those barriers people face at all ages when confronted by science.

‘Here’s a great example. A group from Anson Primary School in London came to visit our Google Web Lab, an interactive gallery exploring how the internet works. They were so excited they went back to school and set up a web lab of their own – then posted a video about it on YouTube. This shows how a museum visit can transform the way children think. We shouldn’t underestimate our audiences. They are information hungry. They are savvy

30 31 Opposite: A4 locomotive Dwight D Eisenhower arrives at Liverpool from Canada en route to NRM York, where The museums of the Mike O’Connor helps renovation north make a contribution This page: 19th-century wax to the cultural and educational anatomical model after conservation... Aerial evacuation of the 22-metre life of the north of England, and Cambridge eight from the shipping galleries... Ticker tape transmitted are an indispensable asset to from the Great Eastern in 1866 children in our schools

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at Blythe House in London or at the former RAF airfield at Wroughton, where some will be housed in the new Hemcrete zero-carbon storage building made from hemp and lime.

Louisa Burden, Head of Conservation and Collections Care, said: ‘This has been our biggest storage challenge in years and every hull, paddle and turbine required a condition survey. In need of conservation was some Morse code ticker tape transmitted from the Great Eastern on its first transatlantic cable-laying voyage of 1866.’

On more routine duty at Blythe House, conservator Emily Yates relished a macabre task cleaning and repairing a beautiful human anatomical wax model showing the internal organs and made in 1818. She said: ‘I gently removed the dirt layers using a soft brush and a detergent solution, which brightened the coloured wax and made intricate features much more visible.’

were given cosmetic restoration ready to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their sister Mallard’s world speed NEW LIFE record in July 2013 Heritage painter Mike O’Connor is seen here smartening up Dwight D Eisenhower in the York FOR OLD workshop, while volunteers at Shildon stripped Dominion of Canada back to FRIENDS the metal for a makeover. The Sailing Ships gallery opened in 1963 to show off, among other things, the craftsmanship of the finest model wo epic transfers made headlines ship builders. From autumn 2014 this year: the transatlantic shunt it makes way for the permanent T of vintage locomotives via Liverpool Information Age gallery, which will to the National Railway Museum in York, celebrate communications technology and the decant of 1800 objects from the and how we share information today. huge shipping galleries at the Science One of the trickiest items to evacuate Museum in London. All required the was the 22-metre Cambridge rowing expert loving care of our conservators. eight, which had to be squeezed under and over display cases before reaching The twin Yorkshire-built A4 Pacific Exhibition Road. All objects will be express locos once known as ‘streaks’ available for research either

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fter a couple of years of trying to win alliances with major ‘A organisations, now I take a more belligerent view,’ says Ian Blatchford, SMG Director. ‘If people are coming up with new initiatives to engage the public in science and technology, I really want to know why they’re NOT working with us, rather than persuade them! We’ve made a very powerful case for us being a huge player in the past year.’ 5 6

Dr Roger Highfield, Director of I am voting for External Affairs, says: ‘British 1 Double helix in the scientific research punches above its weight and the Science Museum Great British Innovation Group is clearly the most formidable Vote via @sciencemuseum showcase for showing off the coolest #GreatVote new ideas to 5 million people. DAVID CAMERON PRIME MINISTER, TWEETING Our fans are savvy too.’ DURING THE GREAT BRITISH INNOVATION VOTE 8

For National Science and Engineering Week in March 80,000 people visited our website to vote for its Great British Innovation of the past 100 years and a mighty majority opted for Alan Turing’s ‘Universal machine’ – the 2

theoretical basis for all computing. 1 BIS Secretary Vince Cable This poll was a unique collaboration opens Make it in Great Britain between SMG and the GREAT campaign at the Science Museum 2 Carol Vorderman names the (based at 10 Downing Street), BIS, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight the Royal Society, Royal Academy of locomotive at NRM York 3 Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer Engineering, Engineering UK, and the at SM Annual Dinner British Science Association. Highfield 4 Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg 3 takes questions at MOSI 7 adds: ‘Its legacy is a substantial 5 Will Smith premieres Men website written by experts.’ in Black 3 at the Science Museum 6 Michael Palin introduces the 50 Years of Beeching debate Visit the Great British Innovation site: 7 Dr Tara Shears talks on the www.topbritishinnovations.org Higgs boson at MOSI 8 Metal plates from Crick and Watson’s double helix displayed at the Science Museum 9 Director Ian Blatchford chairs This is a remarkable environment discussion beside Lord Smith at the venue, and I say that Science Museum 10 Journalist and UNICEF supporter as someone who has Simon Reeve hosts Rio Summit Question Time at the Dana Centre visited a lot of museums 11 Lord Bragg [third left] at the sixth ERIC SCHMIDT GOOGLE’S EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN Arts and Media Lunch hosted by LECTURING AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM the Science Museum 4 9 10 11

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CROSSING THE FRONTIERS OF CULTURE Science is part of our culture so it has been exciting to see the Science Museum finding innovative ways to create bridges with music, art and the theatre, bringing new audiences into the Museum

PROFESSOR MARCUS DU SAUTOY PRESIDENT OF THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION English Touring Opera performing Laika the Spacedog at the Science Museum in January: set in the Russia of 1957, this opera for children tells the story of the first animal to go into Earth orbit aboard Sputnik II LIFT HERE

36 41 Centre left: Viva Aerial Dance Below: Theatre company Complicite use silk banners to represent genetic switching during staged a try-out in the Science ENCODE: Dance of DNA Museum’s IMAX auditorium of X & Y, an absurdist drama written Right: The London Road by mathematician Professor Viaduct, 1848, by James Wilson Marcus du Sautoy, which took a Carmichael from the NRM collection major step in developing the IMAX as a 420-seat theatre. Below right: Eamonn McCabe’s father-and-son photograph at the National Media Museum

Left: Bradford’s Media Museum screened live relays from both New York’s Metropolitan Opera and National Theatre Live to sellout audiences, while the Science Museum [above] staged another Glyndebourne simulcast, and interval ‘picnic’ in the Flight gallery.

Right: As part of a major new exhibition, Tony Cragg at Exhibition Road, the Science Museum displayed works by the British sculptor, while the Mathematics gallery [beneath] shared a display with the Royal Society of abstract stringed sculptures by Henry Moore inspired by visits to the Museum.

Top: Sound Artist in Residence Aleks Above and left: Since opening its Kolkowski demonstrated a 1909 humidity-controlled art gallery, hand-cranked Edison phonograph the NRM in York has been showing to commit to wax cylinder acoustic off its vast collection of railway recordings by beatboxer Jason Singh, paintings, prints and posters. In Writer in Residence Mick Jackson and Fear & Fascination artists from 1830 thereminist Nahum Mantra. Another onwards captured the anxiety people felt about early railways. event collaged early radio archive recordings, newly composed text and CROSSING THE FRONTIERS OF CULTURE hefty doses of radio interference. usic will be one of our best Glyndebourne simulcast in the artists can do and they can be subjective, of Music performed at MOSI offering Right and below: Of the movement- weapons in smashing the art– IMAX theatre, or ETO’s children’s which is more difficult for the Museum ‘a variety of sounds and genres, all based interaction and planetarium- science divide,’ says SMG opera Laika the Spacedog. through the rest of its programme. with an industrial feel’. style projection at Universe of Sound, ‘M Director Ian Blatchford. ‘Universe of Artists can make us stop and think about Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Philharmonia Sound was a daring interactive digital As Head of the Arts Programme for the philosophical and ethical questions. At the National Media Museum Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, said: ‘Our world is by turns preposterously installation in which visitors could many of the past 17 years, Hannah That’s why I’m here.’ so rich are the photography collections loud, pin-drop quiet, highly charged, conduct, play instruments and step Redler has been stirring the Group’s that when Bradford City FC hit the intense and frequently overwhelming.’ inside a virtual Philharmonia rich cultural masala even more vigorously At MOSI in Manchester the challenge was trail to the 2013 Capital One cup final, Orchestra, joining 132 musicians and in the past year while planning for exemplified in Gina Czarnecki’s exhibition a temporary display of photographs conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, in this autumn’s Media Space galleries which explored the life-giving potential was quickly mounted by drawing on performing Holst’s The Planets. We launch. She’s not content with merely of ‘discarded’ body parts. Palaces was superb images shot 20-odd years ago had to extend its run three times rotating displays from our collections made with donated milk teeth and raised by Eamonn McCabe and Ian Beesley. because of popular demand.’ but also brings in contemporary artists questions about the mining of stem cells, A blog appeal located a father and to challenge cultural divides. while a nearby pair of Art Deco armchairs son spotted on the terrace in one of The shock of the unexpected has become ‘stuffed’ with human fat extracted during the vintage images. ‘I’m the shouty commonplace on the Science Museum’s She says: ‘It would be wrong to be liposuction amplified the show’s title, kid with my Dad in this Bradford v cultural events calendar, whether starry-eyed and just trot out achievements The Wasted Works [see page 22]. Ipswich picture from the 1987/88 it’s the Viva Aerial Dance company in science and engineering without “nearly” season,’ wrote Chris Browell, heralding important news from Nature considering how they impact on ourselves As part of its 40th anniversary BCFC supporter, who saw himself about the ENCODE genetics project, a and the planet around us. That’s what celebrations, the Royal Northern College immortalised as an 11-year-old.

37 38 39 40 Centre left: Viva Aerial Dance Below: Theatre company Complicite use silk banners to represent genetic switching during staged a try-out in the Science ENCODE: Dance of DNA Museum’s IMAX auditorium of X & Y, an absurdist drama written Right: The London Road by mathematician Professor Viaduct, 1848, by James Wilson Marcus du Sautoy, which took a Carmichael from the NRM collection major step in developing the IMAX as a 420-seat theatre. Below right: Eamonn McCabe’s father-and-son photograph at the National Media Museum

37 38 39 40 coverage the previous year that had focused just on women in the arts and design,’ says CELEBRATING Ian Blatchford, SMG Director. Visitors to the Science Museum, WOMEN including Ministers Maria Miller and Jo Swinson, enjoyed three days of free talks, demonstrations and WHO EXCEL workshops. Leading participants included Skoda motor-sport engineer Teena Gade and Shell e held special events in Technology Manager Dr Cara London and Manchester to Tredget, who put chemistry at the W draw attention to the roles of heart of Formula One. Hi-tech women in science and engineering. racing team Viridity GRT The High Performance festival in showcased a kit car, while March promoted women working Cambridge University Eco-Racing in motor-sport technology, particle demonstrated their latest solar- physics, aviation, astronomy and powered car. British astronaut fuel-cell engineering, and the Helen Sharman called the festival college students who might join ‘fantastically inspirational’. them in those careers. ‘It was our contribution to International From top: Engineers Leena and Teena Gade at the Science Museum... Culture Secretary Women’s Day and a strong push Maria Miller meeting astronaut Helen Sharman... back against some lazy press Junior Minister Jo Swinson in the solar-powered car

and to France since the Science Museum co-founded a new forum for directors and chief executive NEW DEALS, officers of the major public national science museums in Europe. The Director says: ‘We have been NEW FRIENDS re-forging many friendships that we had let lapse.’ ABROAD A particular highlight was the signing of a Letter of Intent between the governments of the UK and uring 2012–13, SMG made Brazil and the Science Museum significant progress expanding to cooperate on science D international collaboration, communication and education. aiming to rebuild its reputation as The document was signed by a truly international organisation. Aloizio Mercadente, Minster for In order to get best value from such Education, Brazil; David Willetts, work and set the direction for future Minister for Universities and developments, a Science Museum Sciences, UK; and Ian Blatchford, Group International Strategy was Director of the Science Museum agreed by the Board of Trustees Group, in London, July 2012, in November. in the presence of President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil. As Director of the Group, Ian Blatchford made several The Director also travelled with ambassadorial trips abroad to the Prime Minister’s delegation discuss partnership projects and to Brazil in September 2012. Clockwise from top: Director Ian Blatchford with the Prime Minister’s trade mission to Brazil; reciprocal exhibitions, principally at the Foreign Ministry, Moscow; at Presidency to Russia, Japan, Brazil, India See inside front cover for SMG activity map University, Kolkata; at Miraikan, Tokyo

42 43 Waldegrave. The invited audience comprised leaders from education and Whitehall and the event was JOIN THE co-organised with the Royal Society and the Mile End Group of Queen DEBATE: Mary University of London. In February, key individuals from Government, industry, academia WHY SCIENCE and consumer bodies met to discuss issues facing water use in a meeting organised with the MATTERS Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Met Office. Held at the Science ur Museums aim to become Museum, it was chaired by the forums for initiating policy Director, Ian Blatchford. O conversations, and SMG has embarked on hosting debates Other events saw Lord Heseltine and seminars with policymakers, deliver the CaSE Annual Lecture scientists, historians and ‘An Industrial Strategy’... Google educationalists. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt lectured on the importance of In January the Science Museum science museums in inspiring hosted Science Policy in the Real the next generation... Debates World, a discussion about the took place at both the Science experience of being science minister Museum and National Railway between the current incumbent, Museum to mark the 50th anniversary David Willetts, and two predecessors, of the Beeching cuts on Britain’s Lord Sainsbury and Lord railways... At the Science Museum the University of Leicester staged [see page 64]. The Museum’s a prescient debate on the role arresting 19th-century site is its best of tangible objects versus online asset, so its storytelling aspects are science museums. MOSI’S being enhanced. Prime attractions are the world’s oldest surviving intercity station and the atmospheric 1830 BOLD NEW Warehouse [see page 49]. A new survey If we’re to impress shows the average MOSI visit lasts the Treasury we should almost three hours – considerably make an economic case MASTERPLAN longer than at other museums. as well as the cultural one. The year’s renewed focus on events And SMG has one ur first year since joining SMG has developed better use of the entire site, DR ROGER HIGHFIELD SMG DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS been about repositioning MOSI so it including our public realm during ‘O can take its place within the family the FutureEverything Festival. Indoors, of Museums,’ says Jean Franczyk, the live shows were delivered in Revolution Director. ‘We have to transition from Manchester and the Power Hall while the being a well-loved local institution into 1830 Warehouse proved the strongest being an internationally significant venue for art/science installations such museum with a really strong Manchester as Stephen Hurrel’s Beneath and Beyond. personality. This calls for high standards, new ways of working and A major cause for concern is a ten-year Masterplan to articulate Network Rail’s new rail route which those ambitions. We’ve set an initial threatens the MOSI site. We are fighting I enjoy opportunities to fundraising target of £5 million.’ to eliminate or reduce its impact. take people’s questions and always enjoy coming to To emphasise Manchester’s role as both Top: Romanticised vision of Liverpool Road Manchester, and MOSI is such a historic and contemporary powerhouse Station, Manchester, and the 1830 Warehouse, painted by A P Harris in 1980 an impressive setting From top: Lord Heseltine and Eric Schmidt lecturing; has required shifts in practice across Right: Ollie Palmer’s digital Ant Ballet and David Willetts, Lords Hennessy, Waldegrave and exhibitions, learning and collections installed in the Warehouse NICK CLEGG DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Sainsbury debating at the Science Museum

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Alison Boyle Ed Bartholomew SM DEPUTY KEEPER OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE NRM SENIOR CURATOR, IMAGE AND SOUND COLLECTION THE JOYS OF Planning next November’s NRM’s new gallery has Collider exhibition meant showcased art works from going underground at CERN, the collections which we’ve which has to be a highlight of previously been unable to display for anyone’s year! But what has struck conservation reasons. The poster me most is going through the Z is a democratic form of applied art Archive (the Science Museum’s that passengers and railway workers CURATING own history), following F A B Ward, could see displayed on stations, We asked six of the Group’s busiest who built up our modern physics and I’ve been really pleased to see collection, and seeing how the our posters on show here and at curators what aspect of their work proved issues he faced in collecting big the National Museum of Scotland in most rewarding during the past year physics are still live. You always Edinburgh. I’ve also been delighted think about what you’re adding to work with students from the to an object’s story, and what University of York, particularly our future curators will make of it. MA art history partnership student, Frankie Drummond.

Alison in Making the Modern World with the Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier, Ed with a Southern Railway poster from early ‘atom smashing’ apparatus and the 1930s, a ‘modernist design advertising precursor of the CERN adventure newly electrified commuter services’

46 CONTINUED 47 Dr Tilly Blyth Jack Kirby SM KEEPER OF TECHNOLOGIES AND ENGINEERING MOSI HEAD OF COLLECTIONS

The craft of the curator is A large part of the appeal in layering the experiences of the job is having the across a gallery and creating awe world’s first railway warehouse with our amazing objects. During and oldest surviving passenger the development of our new station on site. Currently these Information Age gallery I’ve had atmospheric buildings aren’t well the honour to start a new public understood by our visitors, so interpretation of the World Wide Web there’s a great opportunity to with the man who created it, Sir Tim explain why they’re so important Berners-Lee. My favourite object is and convey the excitement that the ERNIE (1957) – the Electronic Random railway caused when it opened in Number Indicator Equipment – 1830. The Liverpool & Manchester built to generate winning Premium was the first recognisably modern Bond numbers. He’s a beautiful inter-city railway and its features machine and reminds us of the were copied around the world. importance of public sector It’s a great story that exemplifies research for innovation. Manchester’s global influence.

Tilly beside Difference Engine No. 2, designed Jack stands in the best-preserved 1847–49 by British computing pioneer Charles office of MOSI’s 1830 Warehouse, Babbage and built by the Science Museum with the original desks still in situ

Greg Hobson Doug Millard NMeM CURATOR OF PHOTOGRAPHS SM DEPUTY KEEPER OF TECHNOLOGIES AND ENGINEERING

The most exciting thing about In April 2013 I visited my job is that nothing remains Moscow to meet former the same. Curatorial practice is cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov, constantly evolving, the collection Anatoly Artsebarsky and Alexander is growing and responses to Lazutkin – this for the Museum’s photography’s histories are shifting Cosmonauts exhibition project. as the technologies – and access There is an image for ever framed to them – shift and become more in my memory of the two old democratic. In this context, working travellers in space – Dzhanibekov with the photographer Martin Parr and Artsebarsky – smiling fondly on a thorough investigation of our at each other, grasping hands as Tony Ray-Jones archive for the first they hugged, acknowledging an Media Space exhibition [opening understanding we can’t imagine September 2013] has been a genuine and that needed no words. thrill. Ray-Jones’s notebooks distil what is special about our collection, Doug with a model of the Ariel 1 satellite that made Britain the world’s third space-faring which is its breadth and depth. nation in 1962. ‘I found it in a Suffolk antiques shop in time for Ariel’s 50th anniversary Greg browses a Tony Ray-Jones notebook which exhibition and conference. It was made by details photographic technique, reading lists for McMichael Radio Ltd as part of the company’s research, and places he wanted to photograph work in developing, with Imperial College, the cosmic ray analyser, one of the instruments flown on the satellite’

48 49 increase to 1.5 million visits. profile talk from Sir John Beddington, The NMeM’s Your Life Online about his work as the government blog continues to yield compelling scientific adviser. DIGERATI visitor confessions, and its A MAGNET ground-breaking digital Mirror Alongside the wild silent disco quiz yields data for researchers and interactive live games, there BREAK ONE in The Psychometrics Centre at FOR YOUNG will always be university research Cambridge University. At its launch teams eager to amass data sets. curator Tom Woolley said: ‘It’s Even at the one-off ZombieLab, RECORD AFTER fascinating for people to discover ADULTS proposed by the Contemporary Science more about their personality by team, the University of Essex collective simply “liking” something online!’ behaviour expert Dr Edward Codling ANOTHER he title Lates sounds innocent reported: ‘We managed to collect Other digital advances: NRM enough. But the monthly over- loads of data from a computer launched its first East Coast T 18s night has become a heaving simulation game and we will be major redesign of the Science railway history Time Line app to social cauldron at the Science writing this up as quickly as Museum home page caused enhance passengers’ journeys as Museum, breaking records this year possible into a journal paper.’ A online visits to leap by a third this they travel... The Science Museum with peak Wednesdays exceeding 5000 year – that’s an extra 4 million clicks hosted a national competition, visitors in an evening. The independent Teacher Zone is a way of highlighting onto our site – and won an honourable ExPlay Game Jam 2012, with support adult demographic is mainly aged 18 the Museum’s collections, galleries and mention in the international Webby from the Wellcome Trust and Abertay to 30 (though many maturer good-time learning activities for professionals, Awards. Bloggers across all five University, Dundee... Our online science lovers are in evidence too) and and the versatile Talkaoke desk Museums have raised their profiles Climate Change game Rizk has the Learning team offers a richly mixed provides an intimate forum in which to and the Group’s websites together been played 3.2 million times on programme of 20 on-site activities quiz guest scientists about their work. broke records by attracting 20.5 1300 different websites... And on themes such as climate change, million visits in total. The National Stephen Fry demonstrated the broken hearts, sport, surveillance, Railway Museum showed a dramatic power of the tweet: while filming music and mental health. 48% increase in web traffic, and an interview with curator David This audience is the National Media Museum a 21% Rooney he triggered 1000 new All provided plenty of serious brain- culturally aware and increase. On the commercial front, Science Museum followers... In food. This year featured workshops curious. They are capable the invaluable research resource the pipeline we have a Spectacular From top: ExPlay Game Jam 2012... on quantum physics, heart surgeon The zombie-themed Lates broke records and The Science Museum’s upgraded website... of drinking AND thinking held by the Science & Society Science super-app featuring 100 Gianni Angelini demonstrating in our studied consciousness... The Talkaoke desk NRM’s East Coast Time Line app takes ANTHONY RICHARDS creates an instant talk show... Visitors learn Picture Library showed an 11% objects from our collections. travellers on a free interactive journey historic operating theatre and a high- SM MANAGER OF GALLERY PROGRAMMES the dance steps to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’

50 51 standards across York. ‘People Below left: NRM’s Volunteer Officer Matthew Hick volunteer for many reasons and with a new intake of research volunteers Below: Workshop volunteers at NRM and MOSI have hugely varying demands on YEAR their time. It is important that supervisors understand and respect this.’ One way NRM addresses this OF THE is by offering flexible roles. ‘We provide object research projects for volunteers to do in their own time,’ VOLUNTEER Hick says. ‘People can give as little or as much time as they want.’

A bright idea he and Lindsay Coomer hy does NRM attract several from Learning and Development times more volunteers than introduced was Volunteer Manager’s W other Museums in the Group? training. The course provides staff This year MOSI had 129, NMeM had with skills to manage volunteers 85, SM had 158, but NRM’s combined and these may differ from what paid total rose to 380, contributing over staff require. This course is now 36,000 hours across its two sites. delivered across SMG, resulting in raised staff confidence and more ‘You have to understand what diverse projects. To mark its Year motivates somebody to volunteer,’ of the Volunteer NRM threw several says Matthew Hick, the Volunteer parties as a reward for dedication – Officer, who aims to introduce a city- as well as awarding the usual wide charter to improve volunteering long-service medals.

says: ‘We wanted to make the residencies research led, and Aleks is interested in preserving and making INVENTIVE live today the sounds of the past.’ For Music Day last June he re- TRIO IN enacted an Edwardian concert in which a live orchestra from the Royal College of Music played alongside the RESIDENCE auxetophone from our collection – this is an early amplification device from 1905 that played recordings of famous HOW I WAS MADE hree artists in residence at the singers of the day. Cafés, clubs and Inventor in Residence Mark Champkins Science Museum this year were restaurants would advertise ‘Caruso produced a range of retail goods for a writer, an inventor and a in concert tonight’ and this pioneering the Museum such as a kit of scientific T instruments and a biodegradable musician. According to Hannah audio technology starred centre-stage. bauble that contains a seedling Redler, Head of Media Space and Arts Christmas tree. Each glass, mug or Programme: ‘Artists with inquiring ‘Both Aleks and Mick Jackson have tote bag in his ‘Beauty in the Making’ minds can reflect on the role of the been perfect artists in residence, range is covered in an intricate surface institution and challenge its culture wanting to participate in the life of print that tells the story of how its in surprising ways.’ the Museum community,’ Redler says. constituent material was produced. ‘Mick is a bestselling author who also The sound artist Dr Aleks Kolkowski held workshops with the staff. We staged various demonstrations published his wonderful piece of life Clockwise: Sound artist Aleks Kolkowski de-swarfing his 1909 Edison phonograph... drawing on apparatus from our writing, My Running Hell, to tie in Mick Jackson takes a breather... Mark Champkins’ collection [see also page 37]. Redler with the season of sport.’ tote bag pattern tells how it was made

52 53 In 1913, following the discovery that MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology crystals produce patterns when (LMB), Cambridge. The most surprising subjected to X-ray bombardment, legacy of crystallography is its THE BRAGG father-and-son team William and influence on modern design. At the ACCESS FOR ALL Lawrence Bragg formalised the laws of 1951 Festival of Britain one of the main DOUBLE MIRACLE X-ray crystallography. They won a Nobel visual motifs was atomic structure. Monthly and during holidays the Prize – Lawrence, at 25, remaining Science Museum offers SIGNtific, our to this day the youngest winner. To Here we see an important early deaf-led family events with voiceover celebrate the centenary, the Science model of human haemoglobin interpreters, suitable for deaf and Museum opened Hidden Structures, a proposed in 1967 by Max Perutz at hearing audiences. One interactive new display of striking models resulting the LMB. It was the first protein for storytelling session explores Iceland from X-ray analysis of molecular which 3D modelling really changed the and its erupting volcanoes. There are structure, most of which won further understanding of its function. Their tours too during our adults-only Lates Nobel Prizes, for Kathleen Lonsdale, ‘Studies of the structures of globular events. Surprisingly BSL has very few Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James proteins’ had won a joint Nobel Prize signs relating to science, but here we Watson and several for the prolific in 1962 for Perutz and John Kendrew. see one of our guides Deepa Shastri [right] making the rather glorious gesture for the Sun. The shop sells a selection of BSL videos on the history of medicine and climate science, while staff are currently being trained in the Makaton signing system.

Visually impaired and blind visitors now find Braille labels installed in the Who am I? gallery to accompany the touch objects, while Braille information books are available in the hands-on Launchpad gallery.

HENRY WOWS BRADFORD

This year the National Media Museum welcomed 493,000 visits, three-quarters exploring the galleries, the rest viewing film. A major new attraction was Life Online, the world’s first permanent gallery dedicated to the cultural impact of the internet. In October, Bradford City held its first Science Festival in which the Museum played an important part. As part of Positive Bradford Day, we took our photography handling collection and Cottingly Fairies talk out into City park.

The newly expanded Games Lounge offered even more about the history of video-gaming, hosting a BAFTA Young Games Designer event and free web design workshops. February half- term holiday attracted 35,000 visits to activities inspired by the popular character Horrid Henry, delivered in partnership with Orion Children’s Books.

54 55 LEARN HOW TO SHUNT SMG AWARDS

Trainees at the new Steam School at the Museum of Science & Industry in Science Museum Group Manchester learn how to drive the historic Agecroft No. 1 steam locomotive and The Hemcrete store at Wroughton to shunt wagons around the Museum site [volunteer driver Gordon Reece pictured won Best Workplace New Build in below with learner Mike Thornton]. The former 1830 Liverpool Road station is the the Greenbuild Awards, and was also world’s oldest surviving passenger railway station, and Steam School trainees enjoy Sustainability Winner in the Museums a tour, lunch, a photograph and certificate, as well as two hours’ tuition. The treat and Heritage Awards.

was one of several unusual gift ideas on offer at MOSI which included a photography Science Museum workshop by the acclaimed Manchester photographer Andrew Brooks. Access for All Silver Award from Visit England.

Winner of Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Audiences and Engagement, for Universe of Sound, our digital music collaboration with the Philharmonia.

Relaunched website was an Honoree in the Best Home or Welcome Page category at the Webbys.

Codebreaker won first prize in the 2012 Great Exhibitions competition for large displays run by the British Society for the History of Science Outreach and Education Committee.

Science Museum Live on Tour! was highly commended in the Educational Initiative category of the Museums and Heritage Awards.

Dr Roger Highfield, Director of Science Museum Group External Affairs, won ‘CAB IT’ ABOARD A TANK the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal- BIGGEST HORN IN BRITAIN? Medawar Medal for 2012.

While NRM York boosted its attendances this year to exceed 700,000, special events These are the craftsmen in our John Liffen, chance upon an 8 ft Dr Robert Bud, Keeper of Science make all the difference at its sister Museum in Shildon, which attracted 200,000. workshops responsible for making and fragment from the horn’s narrow end and Medicine, Science Museum, took Last autumn’s 8th Anniversary Steam Gala [pictured here] featured guest tank maintaining the furniture that supports in our Blythe House store. Somebody the University of Ghent’s 27th Sarton engines to pull in the crowds, who enjoyed access to footplates in between rides. and displays precious objects, and had had the foresight to mark it ‘Keep’. Chair for the History of Sciences. The Museum is jointly run with Durham County Council and as well as the striking maintaining moving parts throughout collection of rolling stock, its outlying 19th-century buildings remind us that Shildon Museum of Science & Industry the Science Museum. On occasion Scroll forward to 2012 when artist in is the birthplace of railway engineering in Britain and themselves justify an outing. Best Hospitality Venue of the Year they land a juicy challenge such as residence Aleks Kolkowski had the at the City of Manchester this: a complete rebuild of a legendary bright idea to attempt a reconstruction Business Awards. loudspeaker horn which hung in the and used funds from his residency

Museum from 1929 onwards and allocated for materials towards the National Railway Museum drew crowds by relaying early BBC project which was managed by the Visit York Award 2013 for broadcasts with unprecedented clarity. Arts team and fully supported by Conference Venue of the Year. Liffen. That’s what has clearly put the National Railway Museum Its exponential shape was crucial, smiles on the faces of Steve Long’s at Shildon as were its overall length of 8.23 m workshop team behind those masks. Outstanding Volunteer Team Award (27 ft) and square mouth 2.16 m at the North East Museum Volunteer (7 ft 1 in) across, but it was destroyed Awards, honouring 80 volunteers. during a demolition accident in 1949.

The drive unit, a Western Electric National Media Museum 555W made for cinema amplification, Life Online commended in the remained on display – but not until 1982 Interactive Design category by the did a Museum Assistant, now curator IDI (Irish Design Institute) Awards.

56 57 Indian Cinema with its century- spanning retrospective of ‘the most UNESCO CITY abundant of all cinemas’. Widescreen Weekend celebrated 20th Century Fox’s cinematographic process OF FILM CinemaScope, and a glorious digital revival of the second Cinerama film, Cinerama Holiday, was screened in our Pictureville Cinema, one of the he 19th Bradford International Film few anywhere able to show this 1950s Festival, organised by the National widescreen system which requires a T Media Museum in the UNESCO City synchronised triple-projection suite. of Film, was our second with Virgin Media as title sponsor. It offered 10 Other important events in the Museum days brimming with riches, star guest calendar included November’s Animation appearances, 30 British films and 56 Festival featuring significant practitioners UK premieres by Bernardo Bertolucci, in both studio and digital games production. Olivier Assayas and even a David Lynch short, not to mention Dolph Lundgren, Susanne Bier and Joss Whedon. Filmmakers’ Weekend provided some We are back in Berkeley lively masterclasses. after a thrilling trip to Bradford, London and Boston. BIFF celebrated the 50th anniversary of Your festival was a favorite of ours: Billy Liar by giving Sir Tom Courtenay a diverse programming, fabulous Lifetime Achievement Award and enjoying projection and terrific people. We Widescreen Weekend: a very warm interview with him, while Jo Cinerama requires three loved screening Tokyo Waka there synchronised projectors at Quinton-Tulloch, Head of Museum, chose the National Media Museum as her favourite strand Happy Birthday KRISTINE SAMUELSON OSCAR-NOMINATED DIRECTOR

The Science Museum mounted four Antenna sports exhibits and events where visitors could try a range of Paraylmpic SUMMER wheelchairs and cutting-edge sensor technology. The Make it in Great Britain exhibition, developed by the Department OF OLYMPIC for Business, Innovation and Skills, showcased British manufacturing. THRILLS At the NMeM In The Blink of an Eye combined material from the national collections with contemporary work n partnership with the BBC and to explore how media have captured Japanese broadcaster NHK, the movement. Local Polish and Roma/Gypsy I National Media Museum was one of communities contributed memories to only three locations in the UK to showcase a series of short animated films titled Super Hi-Vision technology. Developed Fragile Stories, which has since been for the Olympics, this future television screened all over Yorkshire. system creates a picture 16 times sharper than current HD television. Muriel Hearnshaw, a veteran Bradford It was a special pleasure athlete from the 1948 ‘austerity’ Olympics, attended a Super HV screening of one of to see the National the Olympic swimming events and visitors Media Museum host one of the said it looked thrillingly life-like. The BBC’s Olympic Super Hi-Vision Olympiad was celebrated across SMG. screens, bringing cutting- The Royal Scot class steam locomotive edge innovation to Bradford Scots Guardsman carried the Olympic 2012 Olympics: Muriel Hearnshaw and thrilling audiences experiences Super Hi-Vision in flame from the National Railway Museum Bradford... Antenna displays in York to Thirsk as part of the torch relay. ROGER MOSEY BBC DIRECTOR LONDON 2012 prosthetic legs in London

58 59 individual philanthropist this year The SMG Development department I am proud to see my was will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas held over 40 events last year, musician. Following his £500,000 welcoming thousands of existing donation to the Prince’s donation to the Prince’s Trust, the and potential supporters into our Trust being put into action to star visited the Science Museum Museums. They enjoyed private help engage disadvantaged to launch a programme of STEM gallery tours, visits to collection youth who would not otherwise workshops in marketable skills. storage sites, receptions with leading have access to technology and These will be delivered to scientists and to celebrate exhibition disadvantaged 13- to 19-year-olds openings, dinners to thank funders science education by the Museum after regular lessons and cultivation events (most recently WILL.I.AM RECORDING ARTIST AND PHILANTHROPIST in schools across the country. to fund our new Mathematics gallery, due in 2015). At the year’s most prestigious event, the Director’s Annual Dinner in London, fellowships were awarded to Professor Stephen Hawking and Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN.

At the National Railway Museum in York the Annual Dinner was reintroduced thanks to our Railfest industry partners and the Station Hall refurbishment was completed with support from First Group, Hornby and others. Capital fundraising was completed for the new Media Space in London, with support from Virgin Media alongside the Wilson Family and the Dana and Albert R Broccoli Foundation.

Clockwise: Professor Stephen Hawking [centre] receives a Fellowship of the Science Museum... Christie’s auctions contemporary photographs to raise money for Media Space... Juergen Maier, BRIGHT IDEAS MD of Siemens UK, addresses the annual Business Breakfast at MOSI... Sir Martin Smith [below right] toasts Michael DON’T FUND G Wilson at his valedictory dinner... Will.i.am visits the Science Museum along with Martina Milburn, Chief THEMSELVES Executive of the Prince’s Trust Tougher economic times mean we must secure our own finances to realise all of our ambitions

undraising at the Science Museum Group leans heavily on F developing partnerships through sponsorship, securing investment from trusts and foundations and relies significantly on private philanthropy. To take the lead in building more high-value relationships with private donors we have created the Science Museum Foundation chaired by Michael G Wilson, executive producer of the James Bond movies. A key

60 61 Acquiring the Lovelock Collection was hugely Building the world’s most symbolic because our acquisitions programme had been in decline. Jim’s collection contains some challenging surprising collection material, so for us to acquire Hadrian Ellory-van Dekker, Head of Collections at the Science Museum, explains... it sends an import message to the science community

IAN BLATCHFORD SMG DIRECTOR Our collections are the cornerstone the contemporary. Some may seem of our great Museums – changing surprising choices. Here is a selection and developing over time. Collecting of those significant and unique and is a dynamic activity. Our curators, unexpected objects acquired during by design or responding to those the past year. fortunate accidents of donation, strive to secure the objects that best express the historical and

Opposite: Gas chromatograph used by James Lovelock on board RSS Shackleton to measure CFC concentrations, 1972, the year he elaborated his famous, but controversial, Gaia hypothesis

This page: Part of an experiment James Lovelock designed for NASA to see whether detectors would work at the surface atmospheric pressure on Mars

62 CONTINUED 63 Building the world’s most surprising collection SELECTED Acquisitions

SCIENCE MUSEUM MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM LONDON MANCHESTER YORK BRADFORD

The Professor James Lovelock Archive of 2012 Paul Berry’s (1961–2001) archive collection, Fifteen-inch gauge model of George and The important BBC Collection documents the includes the gas chromatograph, 1972, that representing the career of the stop-motion Robert Stephenson’s locomotive Locomotion history of Britain’s largest broadcaster and Lovelock took on board the RSS Shackleton animator whose short film, Sandman, was No. 1. Probably made for the 50th anniversary complements existing SMG collections of expedition to measure CFC concentrations Oscar-nominated. Manchester-based of the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1875 television and radio equipment to create one Berry also worked with Tim Burton on The and formerly displayed in a public house in of the most extensive collections anywhere in Confocal laser scanning microscope c. 1989, Nightmare Before Christmas Newton Aycliffe the world. [See page 25] designed by Dr Brad Amos who pioneered this apparatus that has now become standard in Portrait photographs by James Mudd & A ‘yellow novel’ typically sold at station the biological sciences Son, late 19th century. They complement an bookstalls and read by railway passengers, existing collection of industrial photographs Baron Montez of Panama and Paris by by one of Manchester’s most important Archibald Clavering Gunter, 1893 Victorian photographers Photographic negatives and locomotive A rare survival of the archive of a company engineering drawings from the Curl Collection of iron founders, Forrest & Sym Ltd, c. 1882– Last Brother CM100 typewriter (Science Museum) (1850–1969) produced by the London & South 1997, which also manufactured grenades Western Railway; London, Brighton & South and gas bombs during the First World War Coast Railway; South Eastern Railway and the Southern Railway Pye Mk 6 Orthicon television camera, 1963 (NMeM) Blueprints from Mather & Platt, 1941–54. Cyanotypes by Nick Veasey, 2011, a British Evidence of the Manchester company’s An 1881 edition of Bradshaw’s Illustrated photographer who works primarily with X-ray expansion beyond traditional textile Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and imaging. Part of a project: ‘Plants and flowers machinery to become a multinational Ireland. Includes information on tours in the are captivatingly beautiful things’ company producing sprinklers for fire manufacturing districts, the English Lake suppression Districts and the Isle of Man The FotoMan was the first digital camera to go on general sale. The FotoMan Plus model Paul Dirac’s doctoral thesis (Science Museum) Bar of Calvert’s Carbolic Medical Soap The Ken Nunn photographic collection (1992) took higher resolution black-and-white (date unknown). Developed by Dr Frederick of 12,000 photographs of railways in Britain, images, 496 x 360 pixels – tiny by today’s Paul Dirac’s own copy of his doctoral thesis Crace-Calvert, an eminent analytical chemist Ireland, France and Belgium (1890s–1960s). standards Yellow novel (NRM) ‘Quantum Mechanics’, submitted to the who linked science to industry and profited From main lines to light railways, they University of Cambridge in 1926. The thesis from his inventions by producing disinfectant feature significant events and rarely Two contemporary posters (2011, 2012) outlines the first general mathematical theory products that sold worldwide photographed locations acquired to support the NMeM exhibition of the new field of quantum mechanics Bollywood Icons: 100 Years of Indian Cinema. The ‘Stephenson family recipe book’ Additional evidence of the changing face of The last UK mass-manufactured typewriter containing hand-written culinary, Indian cinema produced by Brother Industries Ltd. The medicinal and household recipes. Probably Brother CM100 electronic typewriter was assembled in the mid-1840s by the cook Signed photograph taken in Lesotho in donated after manufacture in Ruabon, or housekeeper of George Stephenson 1960 by Ian Berry, acclaimed photojournalist Wrexham, north Wales, in 2012 and his second wife, Elizabeth and member of Magnum Photos. Acquired through the Tyng Bequest within the Royal An advertising board for a mobile phone repair Distant Steam Train, c. 1924, a watercolour Photographic Society Collection shop, c. 2009, used in Buea, Cameroon, was painting by Christopher Richard Wynne acquired for the new communications gallery, Nevinson, showing a train in a rural landscape Tom Wood photographs of clubbers at Chelsea Information Age, which opens in late 2014 Reach nightclub in New Brighton for the series Thunderbirds name plate (NRM) Calvert’s Carbolic Medical Soap (MOSI) Looking for Love (1982–86). We acquired 24 Two London Transport posters advertising photographs from his first book of the same name Science Museum exhibitions, ‘Smoke A rayon fabric sample from 1948, produced Abatement’, 1935, and ‘The Empire’s by Courtauld’s. After the Second World War Two cartoons by Thomas Derrick Airway’, 1936 experiments with new fibres were an attempt published in Punch’s 1933 almanac, satirising to rejuvenate the British textile industry the BBC’s first television service. They Punch cards in a tray for the Pilot ACE represent an artist’s response to television computer that was built at the National Rare examples of UK-produced batteries for three years before the Alexandra Palace Physical Laboratory c. 1950 home wireless sets, from the time when radio Scale model of the InterCity 250 (NRM) ‘high definition’ service listening was taking off, produced by Chloride Communiwell prototype, 2003, a tool for Electrical Storage Co., c. 1920s A 1:20 scale concept model of the InterCity A series of John Cura’s Tele-Snaps psychotherapy made by drama therapist 250 Class 93 locomotive that was intended to (photographs taken directly from television John Casson; designed to allow clients A group of unique documents relating to the Paul Berry archive collection (MOSI) run on the West Coast Main Line. The £380 screens) of the Queen’s coronation on 2 June to represent their own mental states and world-renowned locomotive builder Beyer, million project was cancelled in 1992 and the 1953. Unlike film, they provide a crucial dynamics by placing small objects on different Peacock & Co. Ltd, 1844–1974, collected by rolling stock never made record of the coronation as viewed by the levels of a five-tier cylindrical structure former employees and supplementing the live television audience official company archive held by MOSI London 2012 ‘Time Travel’ Olympic Games Watercolour and pencil drawing by Edward pin badge, presented to railway staff who The Sony XEL-1 OLED television receiver (2008), Bawden, 1963, for a mural for the Physics Equality campaign material from one of the volunteered to assist at transport hubs the first commercial organic light-emitting Building, University of Hull. An important UK’s largest and oldest HIV charities, George during London 2012 diode television. The 11-inch screen was the example of his abstract work, it depicts an House Trust, 1996–2011, whose activism largest flat-screen technology allowed, but idealised atomic structure continues Manchester’s radical traditions Nameplate from the Virgin Trains Class 57 produced amazingly lifelike colour images locomotive number 57309 Thunderbirds Model (scale 1:25, approx.) of the 1956- A soft drink bottle, c. 1925, that exemplifies Brains. Virgin named its locomotives Panasonic transistor television Model TR-005 designed Bluebird CN7 racing car, by Cherilea how the 20th-century city moved beyond that recovered broken-down trains after (1972). Housed in a pearl-grey spaceship UK Ltd c. 1960. The actual Bluebird car, driven traditional heavy industry into new markets. characters from the 1960s television cabinet design, it resembled a flying saucer and by Donald Campbell, was made for an attempt One such was Tizer, created in Manchester series and Brains was the inventor of the was officially known as ‘The Orbitel’. A 5-inch on the world land speed record in 1960 by Fred Pickup in 1924 Bluebird scale model (Science Museum) Thunderbirds vehicles monochrome set with no provision for batteries Bollywood poster (NMeM)

64 65 Medicine, left: in the Dana Centre, trainee Alexandra Cope and STORY IN A PHONE BOX surgeon Omar Faiz explain How Surgeons Learn to Operate The Information Age gallery is due Informatics, right: a Cameroon to open at the Science Museum phone kiosk acquired for the upcoming Information Age gallery in 2014. The project team wanted to explore the use of mobile Climate, below right: one Science phones in developing countries Museum Outreach team project saw a school create a dress and the ‘leapfrogging effect’ of entirely from old magazines new technologies over creaking colonial infrastructure. Charlotte Physics, below: concepts for the imminent Collider exhibition Connelly, Content Developer on the project, reports that Cameroon was selected because its mobile industry was booming. A field trip was proposed to collect objects related to telecoms, and these included mobile phone call boxes which act as vital network hubs and retailers of call credit, a novel concept. The most impressive box belonged to Emmanuel Bongsunu, who worked near Ntarikon market in Bamenda. His box tells the story of local history and Emmanuel was very keen to sell it to us so that he could upgrade to a new custom-made box that was specifically designed for his needs now. For us his old, slightly haphazard box bore all the signs of magnificent evolution.

relationships between traditional 1 Climate science and sustainability, science categories such as physics, including the challenges of The Science Museum Group is biology, chemistry, engineering, population growth, food and water determined to push boundaries, CORE THEMES mathematics and computing security and energy sources can secure a deeper, systematic and to raise the prestige and impact of understanding of our world. Above all, 2 The history and future of medicine, science. This means a strong commitment FOR THE they want us to examine the challenges and issues arising from biomedical to scholarship in the history of science, posed by innovation to the way we live sciences, neuroscience, synthetic and maximising collaboration with the as individuals and society. biology and genetics NEXT DECADE international scientific community The public expects a museum to 3 Informatics (and the science of DR DOUGLAS GURR SMG CHAIRMAN signify both current knowledge and data), mathematics, communication, future discovery. Making choices microelectronic and computing he Science Museum Group about our displays, programming and technologies, bioinformatics and neither teaches nor lectures themes for debating the next decade the human genome T audiences about science have been much discussed. Each of because formal education is not our our Museums has decided its own 4 Understanding the universe, role. Instead we seek to inform and focus: where choices facing society the enthralling stories of quantum inspire, to convey a rounded view are urgent, where technology is and particle physics, general of science, as a story of opportunity, evolving rapidly, where applications relativity and cosmology; and of inventiveness and personalities. We are fundamental. These themes will course space technology show the process of discovery, and inform every aspect of their thinking help people visualise the work of about acquisitions, programming, The Science Museum wants to show historical or practising scientists. curation, galleries and education. how scientific research translates into For the Science Museum in particular the technologies that shape the modern Our visitors expect us to explain the the four core strands chosen for world, and how research might provide scientific process, and how the fertile the decade to 2022 are: solutions to contemporary challenges.

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Director: Ian Blatchford FUTURE AMBITIONS medicine and advocacy. To this end Director: Jean Franczyk AUDIENCES made up almost 27% of overall Science Museum we are developing an e-journal for our Museum of Science & Industry visitor numbers and the remaining Exhibition Road Our exhibitions programme research outputs and a publications Liverpool Road, Castlefield In 2012–13, 642,000 people visited 10% came in educational groups. London SW7 2DD planned for 2013 and beyond includes series promoting our collections. Manchester M3 4FP the Museum. Our February half- Among general admissions visitors, www.sciencemuseum.org.uk Collider (on the Large Hadron Collider, www.mosi.org.uk term programme, Steam, Sweat and 80% come from Greater Manchester autumn 2013), Cosmonauts (on the We will further extend our reach Sewers, attracted 30,000 visitors. and the Northwest region, with Russian space programme, 2014), nationally and internationally by The Manchester Science Festival, a further 14% from elsewhere in OBJECTIVES a collections-based exhibition on both hosting and touring major OBJECTIVES produced by the Museum, attracted the UK and 6% from overseas. climate change (2014). Media Space temporary exhibitions. 86,000 visits to exhibitions and events The STEM programme has placed The Science Museum’s mission is will open in 2013 and the Information The Museum of Science & Industry’s across Greater Manchester. As part ambassadors in 140 schools in to make sense of the science that Age gallery in 2014, followed by major mission is to explore the place of the Festival, we commemorated Greater Manchester. shapes our lives. This commitment improvements to the Mathematics where science met industry and the centenary of Alan Turing by drives everything we do. Through our gallery, medical galleries and our the modern world began, and inviting people to take part in a FUTURE AMBITIONS world-class collections, galleries, non-gallery public spaces, in line to understand the impact that mass experiment, which generated interactive experiences and our with our Masterplan. We want to be Inkjet printed iPad drawing on paper of the largest-ever data set about the In line with the Masterplan Stephen Hawking, by David Hockney, 2012 Manchester science, technology learning programmes we aim to be the UK’s leading centre for the public (unsigned). Commissioned as an iPad drawing and innovation continue to have mathematical patterns of sunflowers. development, we have been fitting the leading international museum history of science, technology and by the Science Museum. © David Hockney on all our lives. We aim to be out an interim temporary exhibition championing the understanding, internationally recognised for ACHIEVEMENTS space to house Brains: The Mind enjoyment and prestige of science our creative exploration of how as Matter on tour from the in modern society. these things created and sustain This year 63% of those visiting the Wellcome Collection. We will modern society. Museum came as a family group, also improve the main Welcome AUDIENCES with a significant proportion visiting and Entrance to the Museum. regularly in order to take part in our A new exhibition to highlight the Daily demos in the Textiles gallery: This year the Science Museum speed frames draw and twist cotton into programme of family-friendly events collection and curated by the welcomed 3.1 million visits, our slivers so it can be spun into thread and activities. Independent adults Museum is also planned. highest annual total since complete records began. This included a significant increase in the number of overseas visitors and a growing independent adult audience in line with our audience development plan. Our new exhibition Web Lab received 200,000 visits and 4.5 million online visits in its first six months.

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The Science Museum is a favourite with families: this year 53% of our visitors came in family groups; 13% of our visitors came in education groups and we remain the UK museum with the most recorded visits by this segment. Adults visiting independently make up 34% of our audience. For many visitors to the capital the Museum is a must-visit destination, with 37% of our general admission visitors from overseas and 23% from outside of London and the Southeast.

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Director: Paul Kirkman Achievements Future ambitions Head of Museum: Jo Quinton-Tulloch visitors to the Museum this year was FUTURE AMBITIONS National Railway Museum National Media Museum Life Online, the world’s first permanent Leeman Road In December we cemented our To mark the 75th anniversary Pictureville gallery dedicated to the social, cultural In September 2013 SMG will open York YO26 4XJ relationship with the Railway of Mallard’s breaking the speed Bradford BD1 1NQ and technological impact of the internet. Media Space at the Science Museum www.nrm.org.uk Museum in Saitama, Japan, record as the fastest steam www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk in London. Major exhibitions curated by with the signing of a sisterhood locomotive in the world, the ACHIEVEMENTS the National Media Museum to showcase agreement. Two A4 locomotives Museum is reuniting all six the National Photography Collections Objectives came from Wisconsin and surviving A4 locomotives with a OBJECTIVES The Museum has two broad audiences: will be launched in London and then Montreal for conservation in programme of celebrations. We those who visit primarily for the transfer to the Museum in Bradford. The National Railway Museum Shildon in preparation for this are delighted that HRH The Prince Our mission is to help our audiences galleries and exhibitions, and those We will also be working with the British comprises the main museum in York year’s anniversary of Mallard’s of Wales has agreed to be our explore and understand the social and who visit mainly for the full-length Film Institute to complete the Yorkshire with two large exhibition halls based world record. patron for this series of events. cultural impact of communications film programme. This year 77% of Mediatheque project, which will enable in former railway depots, and a second media in all their forms. We aim to be the all our visitors came for the former, a selection from our existing TV Heaven museum in Shildon, County Durham, best museum in the world for inspiring whilst 23% came for the latter. Of the offer to be incorporated into the BFI which was opened in 2004. The NRM people to learn about, engage with and visits motivated by the galleries and Mediatheque and made available more in Shildon is operated in partnership create media. exhibitions, 63% of visitors came in widely. From June 2013 we are marking with Durham County Council. It houses family groups and 25% were our 30th birthday with special events. more of the National Collection in a Jo Quinton-Tulloch took over as Head independent adults, with a further 11% new building and a historic site around of Museum in September 2012. coming in education groups. In line with the core mission of SMG, the 19th-century former workshop the National Media Museum will be of Timothy Hackworth. AUDIENCES Our independent adult visitors come making a significant shift to focus to see interesting objects, learn and more on inspiring the nation’s interest Our mission is to enable people to This year the Museum attracted have a culturally engaging experience. in science and engineering and the explore the story of railways as an 493,000 visits, of which 35,000 were The Museum as a whole is an important challenges posed by innovation. innovative form of transport and how recorded during the February half term attraction and resource for communities programme of activities inspired by in Yorkshire and the Humber, with 73% they fit into that story. A series of John Logie Baird’s original mechanical memorable gallery, interactive, web the popular children’s book character of our general admissions visitors apparatus for transmitting television and learning experiences tell the Horrid Henry. A major attraction for coming from the region. pictures, built in 1925 story of railways past, present and future. The NRM is the world’s premier railway museum.

Paul Kirkman took over as Director of the Museum in November 2012.

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This year we attracted 727,000 visits to the Museum in York and 203,000 to Shildon, while in June 34,000 visited Railfest alone. The Museum in York continues to appeal successfully to family groups, which make up 56% of visitors. Independent adults account for 38% of visitors, whilst 6% come in education groups. The Museum is a particular attraction for railway enthusiasts and their families, who make up 21% of general admissions visitors, but the majority of visitors are not specifically railway enthusiasts.

Sans Pareil, one of the earliest surviving steam locomotives, was built in c. 1815 by Timothy Hackworth and took part in the 1829 Rainhill Trials. The original is displayed at Shildon

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Johnson Matthey plc Museum of Science & Industry The many individuals who have SPONSORS AND DONORS The Keniston-Cooper contributed to the Steam Our CORPORATE MEMBERS PATRONS Major Acquisitions: Lovelock supporters Charitable Trust The Estate of Ken Andrews Scotsman appeal, the restoring Science Museum Glitterfish Deltic 55002 appeal and the Science Museum Science Museum James Lovelock is one of the most significant and influential scientists of our The Kusuma Trust UK Granada Foundation Station Hall appeal time. His personal archive and scientific collection – a rich record covering 70 years of scientific inquiry, investigation, discovery and invention – now has Accenture Richard Learoyd Institute of Physics Lovelace Laureate Brunel Circle All the individuals who contributed the permanent home it deserves, as the Science Museum purchased this Dr Sara Levene Kirby Laing GlaxoSmithKline Toby Anstruther AHRC (Arts and Humanities Life Technologies Foundation whilst visiting the Museum archive in 2012. The Museum is now working on cataloguing the archive and The Midland Hotel, Manchester Iain Bratchie making it fully accessible to visitors. Research Council) George and Angela Loudon Miscellaneous company donations Archimedes Alliance The Estate of Alan Morris Bloomberg LP The Lord Browne of Madingley Anaesthesia, Journal of the AAGBI Alan and Virginia Lovell Legacy donors Professor James Lovelock himself said: ‘I am delighted that the Science NEC Display Solutions Rentokil Initial plc Dr Ann Coxon Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low MasterCard Oglesby Charitable Trust NRM York volunteers Edwina Dunn Museum has chosen to purchase this collection and I hope that it will show the next generation how it is possible to do scientific research as a lone ARM Holdings plc Sam Mendes Renold plc NRM Shildon volunteers Faraday Fellowship The Art Fund Michael Hoppen Gallery CMS Cameron McKenna Mr Andrew Eland and inventor and scientist. I attribute the science I have done to the inspiration I RSA NW Venture Fund King’s Own Yorkshire Light Dr Pascale Hazel received from visits to the Museum from the age of seven onwards.’ Arts Council England Motorola Solutions UK Ltd Siemens Infantry volunteers Smiths Group Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association John and Elaine Elkington The purchase of the archive relied on the generous support of the public and The Association of Anaesthetists United Utilities All those who wish to remain Curie Circle Otto Bock Healthcare plc Alexander and Ika Green the companies, foundations and individuals listed below: of Great Britain and Ireland University of Salford anonymous Mathys & Squire LLP Sean Phelan and Audrey Mandela Waters Corporation ReAgent Andrew Jackson Association of Paediatric Rose Gallery George and Angela Loudon Dr Yumi Akimoto Knut Kloster Anaesthetists of Great Britain Winton Capital Management Tranter Lowe Ian Blatchford Dr Lalvani Royal Academy of Engineering Zochonis Charitable Trust Wire: Broadcast Ltd Alan and Virginia Lovell and Ireland The Royal College of Anaesthetists National Media Museum Jeremy Oppenheim Howard and Veronika Covington George and Angela Loudon Bank of America Merrill Lynch Lise Sarfati All the individuals who contributed Alexandra Papadakis Dr Ann Coxon Alan and Virginia Lovell whilst visiting the Museum ANKAMA Dr Blair Feltmate The Neukermans Family Trust Barclays Group Science & Technology National Railway Museum Guy Reid Bayer plc Miscellaneous company donations Black Sheep Brewery The de Laszlo Foundation Oak Foundation Facilities Council Lord and Lady Waldegrave John Gilbert Dame Vivienne Westwood Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee MOSI volunteers The Boris Karloff Platinum of North Hill Bonni Benrubi Shell International Charitable Foundation Dr Douglas Gurr All those who wish to remain Siemens plc All those who wish to remain Rail Media Group Gregg Wilson Kiyo Inc. anonymous BG Group plc British Film Institute BP Taryn Simon anonymous Gold Einstein Circle British Journal of Anaesthesia Jem Southam City of Bradford Metropolitan Central Japan Railway Company Dr Douglas Gurr The British Pain Society UK Friends of the Science Museum District Council Friends of the NRM Mercedes and Michael Hoffman The British Psychological Society US Friends of the Science Museum National Railway Museum The Clothworkers’ Foundation West Coast Railways Dr K T Lalvani Geoff and Liz Varrall West Japan Railway Company BT Group plc Coutts & Co. Dr Sara Levene BECOME A PATRON Edward Burtynsky Virgin Media Atlantic Container Line Creative England Silver Sean Phelan and Audrey Mandela Visa Europe Services Inc. Bachmann Industries Europe plc Christie’s Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund Bachmann Industries Europe plc Galileo Circle Many of our individual supporters choose to help us through Patronage. Wellcome Trust Bauer Media Becoming a Patron is a hugely important way of supporting the work of City Bridge Trust Grand Central Railway Company Ltd East Coast The de Laszlo Foundation Mr and Mrs Michael G Wilson Richard Boaste-Kelly our Museums, helping us to create ambitious displays and educational Dr Ann Coxon Heritage Lottery Fund Yorkshire Bronze Daniel Craig The Winton Charitable Foundation John C Bysouth JCT 600 Ltd Newton Circle programmes, and to protect our world-class collections for future Abellio Group generations. In recognition of their support and generosity, our Patrons Creative Artists Agency All the individuals who contributed Canadian National Railway Company Jurys Inn Mr and Mrs Donald Brydon Honeywell Control Systems Ltd enjoy special access to our collections and to a tailor-made programme whilst visiting the Museum CERES Global Kudlian Software The David and Claudia Harding Dana and Albert R Broccoli Leopold de Rothschild Keolis of exclusive events including behind-the-scenes tours, opening Laser Hotline Foundation receptions, dinners and talks by our expert curators. Foundation Miscellaneous company donations Mr and Mrs Arthur William Omnicom Engineering Ltd Tom March Mr and Mrs Michael G Wilson Darbyshire Legacy donors Downham Media World Logistics Community To find out more about becoming a Patron of the Science Museum, please The David and Those who have made gifts in East Coast Robert Moorley The Flour Mill All those who wish to remain contact us on 020 7942 4335 or e-mail [email protected] Eversholt Rail Ltd Milburns anonymous Claudia Harding Foundation memory of friends and family Multibrands International Ltd To find out more about becoming a Patron of the National Railway REPTA First Great Western Northern Film School / Leeds Museum, please contact us on 01904 685774 or Luc Delahaye Science Museum volunteers First Transpennine Express Shepherd Group Dame Judi Dench Metropolitan University e-mail [email protected] All those who wish to remain Freight Transport Association Northern Rail Stately Trains National Railway Museum Rineke Dijkstra anonymous Grand Central Railway Company Ltd EADS The Gresley Society Ray and Diana Harryhausen Duchess Circle The Eranda Foundation Hallet Steam Oils Foundation National Media Museum Alan E Moore The ExPat Foundation Hornby plc Screen Yorkshire Andrew Scott WHERE FUNDS COME FROM Eric and Louise Franck Jeremy Hosking Spellman Walker Dimbleby Fundraising at the Science Museum Group is based on developing Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown Inc. Maximus Augustus Xavier Lachman Toon Boom Freemans Grattan Holdings Rocket Circle long-lasting and mutually beneficial relationships with all our funders. Philippe Garner Samson Alexander Marcus Lachman University of Bradford Schofield Sweeney Solicitors LLP William R Adam Howard Greenberg We view supporters as investors in our ambitions and values and we Life Environmental Services Virgin Media Richard Harper hold varied events to grow their interest in our Museums. Paul Haggis Peel Merseytravel Mr and Mrs Michael G Wilson Hallmark plc Derek Langslow Haier UK and Ireland Nicholas Millward Yorkshire Forward Peter J Mosse Individual donors play a significant role at SMG. They recognise the Hamiltons Gallery Alan E Moore Cerf Ray Price importance of inspiring the next generation and the unique role we All the individuals who contributed play in achieving this. The Harry and Florence Sloan Moveright International Ltd Bradford College Rodney B Wilson whilst visiting the Museum Rex Procter & Partners Foundation Network Rail Our Corporate sponsors support us across a range of galleries Miscellaneous company donations Turn Key Heritage Lottery Fund Derek Newth Scotsman Circle and exhibitions and in return we offer a bespoke range of tangible Universal AV Services benefits to meet their needs. Paula and Robert Hershkowitz Northern Rail Members of the National Ian Macbeth Peel Ports Media Museum Yorkshire Building Society Harry Medcalf Paul Hertzmann and Suan Herzig Grants from private trusts, foundations and Government help Michael and Mercedes Hoffman Siemens plc NMeM volunteers Cameron Neil Millington SMG to share learning expertise. Many grant-giving bodies are T&R Williamson Approach PR Ltd Francis Townend experts in education, heritage or wider public engagement and James Hyman, London All those who wish to remain Tata Steel Projects Catapult Films the benefits are usually mutual. Hyundai Motor UK Ltd anonymous All those who wish to remain Independent Talent Group TTX Cloud2 Ltd anonymous W L Pratt Charitable Trust Visitor giving is one of our newest income streams, generating much-needed unrestricted funds by asking visitors to make a The Institution of Engineering Wabtec Rail Ltd voluntary donation while they are in our Museums. and Technology Williamsons Ltd Kenny and Jenny Jacobson

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OUR DISTINGUISHED ADVISERS Total number of visits to the Museum Science Museum of National NRM National All Science (excluding corporate hire) Museum Science & Railway Shildon Media Museum Industry Museum Museum Group Science Museum Advisory Board Outturn 2011–12 2,922,000 839,000 630,000 210,000 483,000 5,171,000

Chair: Dr Gill Samuels CBE (Trustee) Outturn 2012–13 3,084,000 642,000 727,000 203,000 493,000 5,149,000 Ms Jane Atkinson, from 30 April 2012 Dr Sarah Caddick Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE (Trustee) Professor Marcus du Sautoy Visits by all visitors in Science Museum of National NRM National All Science educational groups Museum Science & Railway Shildon Media Museum Mr Malcolm Garrett Industry Museum Museum Group Dr Lucie Green, from 30 April 2012 Sir Tim Hunt Outturn 2011–12 408,570 63,440 40,614 71,067 44,415 628,106 Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (Trustee) Ms Clare Matterson Outturn 2012–13 400,000 64,000 40,000 61,000 42,000 607,000 Professor Michael J Reiss Professor Simon J Schaffer Information is sourced through both internal records and periodic independent visitor surveys. There has been no change in the method of calculation this year compared with previous years for the Science Museum Group. Museum of Science & Industry Advisory Board – NRM and MOSI each attracted more visits last year than Tate Liverpool. Chairman: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Trustee), – NMeM attracted more visits last year than York Minister or Jorvik. until 31 March 2013 – In addition to our schools audience, 60% of general visitors to the Science Museum and NRM come in family groups Professor Colin Bailey and 70% of NMeM and MOSI general visitors come in family groups. Dr Maria Balshaw – Every year more than 1.8 million children visit one of the SMG museums, including 1 million to the Science Museum alone. Mr Michael Emmerich Mr Peter Fell (Vice-Chairman) Mr Steve Johnson, from 10 August 2012 Sir Richard Leese CBE Mr Robert Owen MBE Ms Sinead Rocks Dr Gill Samuels CBE (Trustee) Ms Susan Woodward OBE Trustees of the Science Museum Group at the Annual Dinner GROUP FINANCIAL SUMMARY 2012–13

SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP PURPOSE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE National Railway Museum Advisory Board SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP The Science Museum is the lead partner in Chairman: Professor Sir Howard Newby CBE (Trustee) Mrs Gillian Cruddas MBE the Science Museum Group, the world’s most The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum The Science Museum Group continued to facilities and a reduction in staff numbers. Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Trustee), significant museum group devoted to science is responsible for the whole of the Science benefit from the generous support of sponsors, We have succeeded in balancing our budgets until 31 March 2013 2.2 and engineering. The Group also encompasses Museum Group. The Trustees, who may number trusts, foundations and individuals during without compromising on either visitor 0.6 Income in 2012–13 (£m) Mr Christopher Garnett OBE the National Railway Museum in York (created in between 12 and 20, are appointed by and 2012–13, all of whose contributions helped experience or the care of our collections. 10.2 Grant in aid Mr Bryan Gray CBE Trading income 1975), the National Media Museum in Bradford responsible to the Prime Minister through DCMS. our Museums to deliver a wide range of Mr Brian Greenwood (1983), the National Railway Museum in Shildon The Director of SMG, as Chief Executive Officer, programmes, from major capital projects and Despite the reductions in our Government Grants, donations Mr Simon Linnett (Trustee) and sponsorship (2004) and the Museum of Science & Industry, is responsible to the Board of Trustees and, as innovative contemporary science displays to funding, we have been able to raise funds Ms Sue Palmer OBE, until 7 February 2013 Rental income Manchester (which joined the Group in 2012). Accounting Officer, is accountable to DCMS for our work with schools and popular late-night to continue with two major capital projects, compliance with the Management Statement Mr Frank Paterson MBE, until 7 February 2013 Other income Together these Museums recorded 5.1 million openings. The support of our visitors has been both of which have been generously funded visits in 2012–13, and over 20 million unique and Financial Memorandum. Mr Adrian Shooter CBE overwhelming over this past year, with income by sponsors. Among other uses, the Media website visits too. The common bond between Mr Anton Valk, from 6 November 2012 43.7 from visitor donations up 64% compared with Space galleries will showcase our 16.1 all the Group’s component parts is the story Chairman Mr Philip Verster our budget. In these difficult economic times, photographic collections from September of human ingenuity in the fields of science, Dr Douglas Gurr Mr William Woolley this support is more critical than ever. Without 2013. Information Age, a major new gallery on technology, medicine, transport, media and it we would struggle to continue to achieve communications, will open in autumn 2014. the development of the modern city. Members Lady Chisholm National Media Museum Advisory Board the extraordinary range and depth of activities our Museums continue to deliver. We have as a Group become more Expenditure THE CHARITY Mr Howard Covington 8.5 2.3 in 2012–13 (£m) Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE Chairman: Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE (Trustee) strategically focused, leaner and more Because 2012–13 was the first full year in efficient, but if public funding continues to 0.5 Costs of generating The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Lord Faulkner of Worcester Mr Simon Beaufoy, until 31 January 2013 13.4 voluntary income which MOSI has been part of our Group, there fall and economic uncertainty persists we was established under the National Heritage Act Mr Andreas Goss Mr Pierre Brahm Trading costs 1983. SMG is an exempt charity under the Second Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE Lady Chisholm (Trustee) was an increase in both Government funding may have to review the scale and range of 9.2 and in operating costs compared with the year our operations. Even in the most difficult of Care for and research Schedule of the Charities Act 1994. Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Mr Philippe Garner into collections Mr Simon Linnett Mr Matt Locke of acquisition. In real terms, our Government circumstances, however, we will endeavour Science education grant has again fallen this year, and the years to ensure as many people as possible can The Science Museum Group comprises: Professor Averil Macdonald Ms Zahida Manzoor CBE and communication Professor Sir Howard Newby CBE Mr Roger Mosey ahead look to become ever more challenging. enjoy our remarkable collections. Visitor services Science Museum, London Dr Gill Samuels CBE Dr Annette Nabavi Governance costs Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester Mr James Smith CBE Mr Simon Norfolk In order to meet the continuing reductions in These figures are extracted from draft 15.4 National Railway Museum, York and Shildon Ms Janet Street-Porter Mr Tony Reeves Government funding, SMG has continued to financial statements. The full Annual Report 22.4 Capital expenditure including collection National Media Museum, Bradford Mr Chris Swinson OBE Ms Carolyn Reynolds cut costs and to realise efficiencies, through and Accounts is available on our website: additions SCMG Enterprises Ltd Mr Peter Fell (observer for MOSI) Ms Gillian Reynolds MBE procurement, rationalisation of storage sciencemuseum.org.uk/group

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his spectacular diorama was despatched last summer to T storage during the decant of 1800 objects from the shipping galleries at the Science Museum to make way for the new Information Age gallery. Titled ‘Model of Admiralty Boardroom, presenting 1677 Thirty- Ship Shipbuilding Programme’, it is the size of an office desktop and was crafted in the Science Museum workshops in 1960, when television was still a novelty, following a long tradition of museum displays. (You may still find other brilliant dioramas in the Agriculture gallery and in Wellcome’s Glimpses of Medical History gallery.)

Just relish the artistry, from the exquisite joinery and costume details to the manikins acquired from a Miss B M Campbell of Hampton Wick. Their faces look drawn from historic portraiture on the figures of King Charles II [far right] and the renowned diarist Samuel Pepys as his Admiralty Secretary [left with quill]. And, oh, the deference of the whole group in an era when only a cat may look at a king!

The moment captured here is a watershed in British naval history. A typical meeting of the Admiralty Board is discussing, with the aid of a scale model prototype (a 2nd-rate man-of-war), the dimensions of a warship being built in the Thirty-Ship Shipbuilding Programme of 1677. This was the first such Royal Navy initiative based on standardised designs.

Anticlockwise from the king’s right hand: Prince Rupert, Sir Anthony Deane (Master Shipwright and Commissioner, Portsmouth Dockyard), Sir Joseph Williamson (a Secretary of State), Sir John Tippetts (Surveyor, Portsmouth Dockyard), Samuel Pepys, the Duke of Ormonde. As key members of the Navy Board, Deane and Tippetts are providing specialist construction advice.

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