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The Museum of Science & Science of The Museum Industry is a fantastic asset The universe cannot wish for a more perceptive eye Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize laureate and Emeritus Professor at the Universityof Edinburgh, who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson; and Stephen Hawking, Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. They are seen before a cross-section image of CERN’s Largeof CERN’s Hadron displayed Collider, in our exhibition, Collider Photograph by Nathan Dainty © Science Museum OUR FIVEOUR WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS London Museum, Science Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester National Railway Museum, York National Media Museum, Bradford National Railway Museum, Shildon A YEAR FOR BREAKING RECORDS attendances Total Museum hit an all-time high at 3,342,000, and achieved its biggest ever February half-term figure (140,000 over nine days with almost 20,000 people in a single day). Museum Railway National The NRM leapt York to 926,000, up more than 25% on the previous NRM Shildon year. welcomed 120,000 visits over the course of eight days for the Great Goodbye. Visitor giving goes on booming: £2 million was received across the five Group’s Museums. Staff in London and benefited York from new welcome desks which have won design awards. The Science Museum welcomed a record-breaking 442,000 visitors in education groups, more than any other UK museum. Of these 341,000 were school pupils. digital audience Our a surge of 29%. pictureCover Geniuses modern of theoretical Collider physics Science the at Museum’s northwest’s the willand keep help spirit of curiosity and innovation alive PROFESSOR BRIAN COX UNIVERSITY MANCHESTER OF than the Science Museum ROBBERT DIJKGRAAF DIRECTOR AND LEON LEVY PROFESSOR THE AT INSTITUTEADVANCED FOR STUDY IN PRINCETON PAGE 52 WHAT WE DO BEST: PAGES 36–43 INFORMAL LEARNING SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIP CHERISHED ANEW PAGE 26 PAGE PAGES 8 AND 18 NEW SPACES, NEW STYLES STEAM LOCOS BREAK RECORDS PAGE 12 PAGE PAGE 10 PAGE PHYSICS AS PURE THEATRE CASH BOOST FOR MANCHESTER

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Journeys of Invention of Journeys new Science Museum iPad app, 10 command10 module. With the you can emulate them, emulate can you like tops within the tiny Apollo in space loved spinning around thanks to pin-sharp 360-degree to thanks Astronauts floating weightlessly 250,000 downloads? 250,000 peopleThat’s who know collections our better before than IAN BLATCHFORD THE SCIENCE MUSEUM’S DIRECTOR ON OUR JOURNEYS OF INVENTION APP FOR i rotational photography stitched seamlessly together. photographyrotational seamlessly stitched together. canYou also see the original NASA footage from when1969 Gene Cernan, Thomas Stafford and John Young were in Moon orbit. Apollo is 10 on loan to the Smithsonian from Washington’s Science Museum Institution and we cannot touch it, even with gloved hands. So we chose a boom to suspend a camera inside to capture an astronaut’s eye view – taking you the visitor ‘behind the glass’! The app, published by Touch Press, enjoyed 250,000 downloads in its first six months. Photograph by Drew Gardner. Read more on page 11 emissions are produced 2

The Science Museum helped helped Museum The Science fuelfascination my with during manufacturing, compared with the production of virgin fibre paper. FSC recycled certification, NAPM 100% recycled certification, ISO 14001, Process Chlorine Free (PCF) and PAS 2020:2009 Level 3. Printed by CPI Colour, using sustainable paper – Cocoon Silk 100, which is produced from 100% post-consumer recycled, FSC certified pulp. Less energy and water are consumed and fewer CO With thanks for additional photographs by: Max Alexander/UK Space Agency, Tim Anderson, (Russia), Kasim Asim, BBGConsulting, British Council Cation, Rick Bronks (Satureyes Photography), David Jon Challicom, Coffey Architects, Edmund Collier, Toby Cornish, Nathan Dainty (VeryCreative), Benjamin Ealovega, Kate Elliott, Stewart Emmens, David Exton, Chris Foster, Drew Gardner (Touch Press), Getty Images, Andrew Gillett, Peter Heaton, Jorge Herrera, Jennie Hills, KCM Malta, Andrew Manning, Kippa Matthews, Barry MacDonald, Rob McDougall, Metaphor, Santiago Arribas Peña, Plastiques Photography, Sam Potts, Jonathan Pow, Jo Quinton-Tulloch, David Robertson, Nigel Roddis Photography Ltd., Zeynep M. Saygin, McGovern Institute/ MIT, Smith and Scholey, TAPE, Paul Thompson, Telegraph & Argus (Bradford),Natalia Vremyachkina, Wellcome Library/Wellcome Images (London), Wide Angle Pictures, Kira Zumkley © 2014 The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum © 2014 The Board of Edited by David Johnson with generous input from staff at SMG and its many bloggers Studio Designed by the Science Museum Design Project manager, Sian Worsfold Nicholls Picture researchers, Nick Hedley, Richard Copy editor, Lawrence Ahlemeyer Main photography from Group resources: Museum of Science & Industry National Media Museum National Railway Museum/Pictorial Collection Science & Society Picture Library Science Museum Library & Archives Science Museum Photographic Studio PROFESSOR HAWKING STEPHEN THEAT LAUNCH OF THE COLLIDER EXHIBITION physics. So is wonderful it see that to more young people are ever than getting the opportunityfeel to that same inspiration

SELECTED OUR COLLECTIONS WERE LOANED TO OUR COLLECTIONS ENTERPRISES ACTIVITY 30 VENUES IN THESE COUNTRIES In 2013–14 the Science Museum Group loaned 1641 objects to SMG INFLUENCE AROUND THE GLOBE 2013–14 Canada Russia Australia Ireland SMG REACH WITHIN THE UK 2013–14 191 different venues in the UK, a selection indicated in green France Turkey Belgium Japan LIFT HERE LIFT HERE Germany Ukraine Canada Jersey One of the key things we are trying to challenge is the idea that science, engineering Ireland USA Denmark Netherlands This year proved the power of authenticity; big projects anchored in real science. SM – Science Museum, London and design are all part of Britain’s great industrial past, not our future France Norway Tangible objects matter enormously to people MOSI – Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester Germany Spain NRM – National Railway Museum, York and Shildon India USA NMeM – National Media Museum, Bradford GEORGE OSBORNE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER IAN BLATCHFORD SMG DIRECTOR

USA AND CANADA SPAIN MALTA SWITZERLAND SWEDEN BRUSSELS RUSSIA GLASGOW NEWCASTLE Two Yorkshire-built A4 locomotives The National Media Museum collaborated The Science Museum’s Learning team CERN collaborated enthusiastically At the Ecsite (European Network of Working in partnership with European Union SMG has established strong SM’s adult Lates programme generated SMG and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums were lent to the National Railway with the Museo Nacional d’Art de acted as consultants to the Maltese to deliver the Collider exhibition at Science Centres and Museums) National Institutes for Culture the Science relationships with the Russian discussion when Scott McKenzie-Cook, signed a five-year memorandum of understanding Museum from Wisconsin and Catalunya in Barcelona to mount a Joan Council for Science and Technology, the Science Museum and on its conference SMG staff shared best Museum featured 13 biomimetic robots from Federation to develop the Special Events Manager, gave a presentation to strengthen our established relationship. Both Montreal for the Mallard 75 Fontcuberta retrospective in the Media who are building a National Science transfer to the Museum of Science practice with 1000 other museum seven countries in its five-day Robot Safari forthcoming Cosmonauts at the BIG Conference in Glasgow organisations exchanged loan objects that had anniversary events Space gallery during 2014 Centre near Valletta & Industry in Manchester and science centre professionals festival and Lates event exhibition, which will be a key never been on public display component of the UK-Russia KILMARNOCK, EAST AYRSHIRE London & North Western Year of Culture. Director Ian Photographs such as the portrait of 'Clementina SMG SHILDON Blatchford led negotiations NRM Shildon drew record crowds to its Great Railway, G2 class Super D Maude', shown right, were loaned from the locomotive, built at Crewe during trips to Moscow collections of NMeM to the Dick Institute, an Goodbye celebration for the six A4 locomotives, in 1921 and hosted a farewell gala featuring Steamsong, GERMANY AND USA important cultural venue in Scotland an opera commissioned by the Arts Council Eleven international key TURKEY opinion leaders are on The Science Museum’s Mystery ARMAGH SMG BRADFORD the editorial board for Box product continues to A Blue Streak rocket engine was The National Media Museum hosted two the new SMG online enliven educational training loaned to Armagh Planetarium by world-class annual film festivals, the Bradford journal, including programmes run in partnership the Science Museum International Film Festival and Bradford academics from with Santralistanbul Animation Festival, both celebrating their 20th Stanford and Cornell anniversaries ‘The International’ universities in the USA SMG MANCHESTER folding-stand camera and the Deutsches SOUTH KOREA The Museum of Science & Industry by J Lancaster & Son, SMG YORK Museum in Munich The Korea Foundation for the produced its seventh Manchester Science Birmingham, 1885–1905 Advancement of Science and Festival, an 11-day celebration of science The vintage steam locomotive Mallard toured from Creativity (KOFAC) continued in partnership with local universities the National Railway Museum to Grantham, to collaborate with the which involved over 100 events Doncaster and Barrow Hill engine shed, NEW YORK Science Museum’s Learning throughout Greater Manchester Chesterfield, as part of the Mallard 75 anniversary SCMG Enterprises launched a Department, which hosted a celebrations strategic partnership with the three-month Korean staff New York Hall of Science, which placement NANTWICH, CHESHIRE NOTTINGHAM included a visit by members of the A BAC Jet Provost T4 RAF training MOSI’s Park Green Mill clock, shown right, was aeroplane was loaned to Hack loaned to Nottingham Castle as part of Jeremy Ivory anatomical figures Events and Retail teams this year with some internal organs JAPAN Green Nuclear Bunker by MOSI Deller’s All That is Solid Melts into Air exhibition Staff from the Corporate removable, possibly German, 17th to 18th centuries Planning Headquarters of LEICESTER NORTH West Japan Railway Company WOLVERHAMPTON NRM continued to collaborate with Leicester City LOS ANGELES visited the National Railway 'The International' Lancaster Council and the Great Central Railway on the SMG loaned 127 objects to 30 Museum in support of the camera was one of several development of the new Great Central Railway overseas venues including nine redevelopment of our sister objects loaned by NMeM for Museum at Leicester North National Media Museum objects to museum in Japan, the Modern From Darkroom to Digital at A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Transportation Museum Wolverhampton Art Gallery NORWICH Photography at the J Paul Getty A touring exhibition, Curiosity: Art and the Museum, Los Angeles SWINDON Pleasures of Knowing, which visited Norwich A large number of NRM loans Castle Museum, included loans from SM such as Portrait of ‘Clementina Maude’ went to Steam: Museum of the the ivory anatomical figures, shown right by Lady Clementina Hawarden, albumen print, 1863 Great Western Railway in MEXICO Swindon, including a fire engine SMG LONDON The Science Museum and the Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum Museum of Science & Industry and Chief Executive of the Group, was named have been discussing how they BLAENAVON, GWENT among the Evening Standard’s 1000 most might feature in a UK-Mexico Preston Rambler, a Super D influential Londoners for 2013. SMG developed year of culture in 2015 loco, was loaned to Pontypool stronger links with the Royal Society, the world’s CHINA & Blaenavon Railway Company leading science academy Double-dial longcase The Journeys of Invention app, by NRM clock from Park Green Mill, featuring 84 unique Science Museum CHELTENHAM Macclesfield, made by E Hartley, Macclesfield, artefacts, launched in December Roger Highfield, SMG Director of External Affairs, EXETER c. 1810 2013. By February 2014, the app had took part in The Times Cheltenham Science SM’s Energy Show played a 34-gig been downloaded by 230,000 people Festival with Pulitzer Prize-finalist and bestselling tour across the south which also took and 22% of these were in China science author James Gleick, and continues to be in Canterbury, Tunbridge Wells, an adviser to the festival programme Reading, Cambridge and Brighton BRAZIL ARGENTINA SIERRA LEONE INDIA HONG KONG The Science Museum continued to The Science Museum provided A grant from the British Library A research trip to India enabled The Hong Kong Science Alive Festival CHICHESTER David Rooney, SM’s Curator of Time, Navigation build relationships with key people advice for a new science centre Endangered Archives programme by the King’s Cultural Institute in conjunction with the British Council FALMOUTH, CORNWALL and Transport, acted as a programme adviser and organisations in Brazil as part being developed in Buenos Aires supported a National Railway took place to develop a proposal and the Dongguan Science Museum in A model of Kon Tiki, the raft used by Norwegian for the internationally renowned diploma in Scale model of Kon Tiki, of SMG international strategy Museum initiative to help safeguard for a Science Museum exhibition China were among many hosts for live explorer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition conservation-restoration of clocks at West Dean the raft used by Norwegian archival records relating to the on science in India science shows by the Science across the Pacific Ocean, was loaned to the Sierra Leone Railway Museum’s Outreach team College, Chichester explorer Thor Heyerdahl to National Maritime Museum by the Science Museum explore the Pacific Ocean A MIGHTY BIG BANG FROM YOUR BUCK

Dr Douglas Gurr, Chairman of the Science Museum Group, celebrates another outstanding year of impact, influence and achievement

600,000 booked education visits. We welcomed more children on educational visits than any other UK institution by far, placing us well into the top ten most visited families of museums in the world.

On quality, just reflect on a few highlights: Codebreakers, the winner of the Great Exhibitions Prize from the British Society for the History of Science; Media Space, which showcases the remarkable National Photography Collection; the reunion of Mallard and our years ago, when I took over the A4 locomotives; and Collider, which as Chairman of this wonderful opened to rave reviews and spectacular F institution, we set ourselves three audiences. Looking forward, later challenges: to become financially this year we will see Cosmonauts and self-sustaining in what looked like a Information Age; work begin on a new difficult funding climate, to grow our research centre; and in 2016 two amazing relevance and audience reach, and new galleries on maths and medicine. to materially improve the quality of everything we do. As I prepare to In short, we have sought to do more stand down, let’s reflect on how with less and we are succeeding. we have done. We have made the Group a central player in the science base to inspire On money, the Group has found the next generation of scientists, efficiencies to absorb a 30% real- mathematicians and engineers who terms reduction in Government will drive the economy in years to funding whilst continuing to maintain come. We showcase the best of British our operations. At the same time, we research for the public and we help have raised more than £50 million them understand its complexities. in new private capital to support key initiatives, created the Science All this, of course, is made possible by: Museum Foundation, which is a great team led by Ian and encouraged beginning to build an endowment for by a strong and committed Board of the future. In addition, we welcomed Trustees; and powerful backing – both the Museum of Science & Industry financial and otherwise – from you, our in Manchester into the Group. cherished friends and supporters.

This last year was our busiest ever I hope that you agree that you are with more than 5.7 million physical indeed getting a mighty big bang visits, 26.5 million web visits, and from your buck.

1 CONTENTS SMG ANNUAL REVIEW 2013–14 The prowess of the nation’s historic achievements in The bio-revolution Lates event was a wonderful science and technology is displayed for all to see in the opportunity to let people see how exciting our Science Museum – a cathedral to the history of science where institute’s discovery research will be. I’m delighted that visitors can share in the celebration so many people came along

LORD REES SIR PAUL NURSE ASTRONOMER ROYAL AND CHAIR OF THE LONGITUDE PRIZE 2014 COMMITTEE DIRECTOR OF THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE and president of the royal SOCIETY 26

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12 52 60 Highlights On other pages 58 A new dawn for photography 6 SMG is the place to be 60 Enterprises are F-A-B 4 Director’s introduction 62 Landmarks in ingenuity Our forte: Doing the formidable 10 Cash boost for Manchester 11 Our benchmark among apps 76 Tribute to Heather Mayfield 8 A lure for London’s culture lovers 32 30 Lovelock unlocked 12 Collider – making the invisible visible 31 Shock view of psychology Appendix 18 When design proves an investment 32 A fine cross-cultural smorgasbord Our five museums in profile 20 Bradford as time machine 34 Live wires creating sparks 66 SMG financial summary and visit numbers 22 In celebration of Castlefield 44 The science behind giving 68 Our generous supporters and how to give 46 Focus on the media industries 70 Who’s who behind our family of museums 24 Staying abreast of today’s news 47 Astronauts splash down in London 71 Science Museum (SM), London 26 The greatest of railway gatherings 48 Digital leaps forward 72 Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI), Manchester 36 Special section on SMG Learning 50 On the conservation beat 73 National Railway Museum (NRM), York and Shildon How we’re changing your future 51 Hooked on citizen science 74 National Media Museum (NMeM), Bradford 52 New kudos for our scholars 51 56 Prowess of our volunteers 75 Science Museum at Wroughton and Blythe House

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OUR FORTE: DOING THE FORMIDABLE The challenges of doing so were soared to 3.3 million at the Science research centre in South Kensington. Ian Blatchford, Director and Chief Executive of the Science Museum Group, formidable, both in conveying the epic Museum. We are also finding new At the National Railway Museum the signals our new ambitions: to reach a more sophisticated adult audience scale of the experiment and visualising ways for the Group’s Museums to work reunion of Mallard with her sister the subatomic world. That experiment together and the first stop on Collider’s locomotives from the 1930s generated without sacrificing authenticity, and to reinforce the international is taking place in CERN’s Large Hadron world tour is the Museum of Science unprecedented publicity and massive Collider near Geneva, where an army & Industry in Manchester. crowds too, notably at Shildon. And the stature of our Museum collections around the country of 10,000 scientists and engineers has National Media Museum launched Only built and run a particle accelerator the Investment in the programme and in England, which has been critically size of London’s Circle Line. galleries in Manchester are all part acclaimed and marked the first fruits of of our cunning plan to move the the Media Space gallery, a long-awaited y scientific colleagues are often Collider’s success rests on giving voice Group’s centre of gravity northwards. partnership between our teams in alarmed when I tell them that to individual scientists and engineers. Throughout 2013 there was much Bradford and London. M the Science Museum Group The Museum was delighted that Peter political debate about the dominance must be attuned to the zeitgeist. Higgs, recently the winner of a Nobel of London in the cultural landscape. All of this ambition needs money, and It may sound like pretentious arty Prize, came to speak at its opening and The Group has long been ahead in increasingly that has to come from speak, but all I mean is that science receive an honorary fellowship of the its thinking, because our Museums philanthropy and entrepreneurial flair. and technology provoke a potent Museum. Peter was so generous with in Manchester, York, Shildon and I would draw your attention to page 66 mixture of excitement, inspiration, his time, also attending an exhibition Bradford have strong personalities, and the article by our Chief Operating puzzlement and anxiety in all our launch in parliament, a question-and- proud of their regional heritage but of Officer, Jonathan Newby, which shows audiences, and if we stimulate all of answer session for hundreds of eager international stature too. They are not how we are making great progress in these prospects then our work will teenagers, and the most packed press mere branches of London. So we were our strategy to deliver a sustainable have greater impact. And there can be preview I have ever seen. Stephen pleased when the Chancellor tweeted future for the Group by adopting a more few more eloquent testaments to how Hawking, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Rolf- about how his children loved our sister businesslike approach. science, technology and engineering Dieter Heuer and Ian McEwan took part museum in Manchester and delighted are powerful forces acting on today’s in launch events. And in another sign of when the year ended with the Treasury Finally, I want to thank Doug Gurr for culture than the launch of Collider, the importance of this project, George making a large capital grant towards all his support, wise counsel and our exhibition about the grandest Osborne – the UK’s ‘science chancellor’ the creation there of a new £3 million sheer hard work as Chairman. experiment on the planet. – officially opened the exhibition. exhibition centre. Our ambitions are matched by other key players, and it This has to be the most ambitious Collider signals several new ambitions was tremendous that our excellent Above, SMG directorate visit to the Moscow Science Festival, left to right: Dr Julia Knights (Head special exhibition by any science for the Group. One is to reach a more partners at the Wellcome Collection and First Secretary, British Embassy Moscow), The Science Museum museum anywhere. From early timid sophisticated, adult audience. I have worked so hard to bring the Brains His Excellency Tim Barrow (UK Ambassador to ideas about a small cased display, always resisted prevailing pressures exhibition to Manchester, where it Russia), Vladimir Dzhanibekov (Cosmonaut and has certainly been a part Major General, Russian Air Force), Ian Blatchford we soon realised that ‘finding the to ‘dumb down’ museum presentation. proved a huge hit. (SMG Director), Doug Millard (Deputy Keeper, of my life, as a child and as a Higgs’ was a special cultural as Now I actively advocate ‘dumbing Science Museum), Tatiana Alekseevna Gevorkyan, parent, and as a government Dr Marina Sokolova (Senior Adviser, British well as scientific event, and that a up’ and the intellectual debates that Across the Group there have been Embassy Moscow) we recognise the importance great museum should respond with followed the Collider launch set an many more extraordinary stories in appropriate scale and ambition. admirably high bar. Another wish is to the past year. On the academic front Opposite: the Director greets Chancellor of the of investing in science Exchequer George Osborne who chose the Science It was the right response to safeguard authenticity when reaching we have launched our online open- George Osborne Museum to launch his Your Life initiative, designed Chancellor of the Exchequer the zeitgeist. out to visitors, whose numbers have access SMG Journal and plans for a to encourage more student involvement in STEM

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1 Robin Ince and Brian Cox record Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage at a Science Museum Lates event

Thank you for my 2 Jeremy Paxman interviews James Lovelock entire childhood at the Science Museum for BBC Newsnight 3 Professor Peter Higgs meets Adam Afriyie Audience member to David Attenborough at IMAX screening of Penguins 3D MP at the Collider reception hosted by the 5 6 7 8 Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology 4 Director of Learning Dr Alex Burch addresses a Science and Technology Select Committee on climate change at the Science Museum, between Professors Nick Pidgeon and Chris Rapley SMG IS 5 Culture Secretary Sajid Javid meets SMG benefactor Michael G Wilson and Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees THE PLACE 6 Baroness Lane-Fox, co-founder of Lastminute. com, and Rick Haythornthwaite, Chair of the Web Foundation, visit the Science Museum to unveil the NeXT cube – the original machine on which TO BE Sir Tim Berners-Lee designed the World Wide Web 7 SMG Director Ian Blatchford with Defra minister Lord de Mauley and Director of the MET Office Phil Evans who co-hosted a round-table debate on agri-tech with the Science Museum he UK boasts the world’s greatest alliance of science museums in 8 Lord Martin Rees talks to Shadow Science Minister Liam Byrne at a Science Museum the Science Museum Group. We reception T 9 10 11 present a formidable platform for showcasing new ideas to 5.7 million 9 On a family outing, Professor Stephen Hawking views the new Mallard simulator at NRM York visitors a year. Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, says: ‘Anybody with 10 HRH The Princess Royal visits a Women into Science and Engineering (WISE) awards an initiative to promote in science and evening at the Science Museum engineering would be foolish to ignore the clout we wield. Look at the calibre 11 Paul de Quincey (British Council Russia), Ian Blatchford (Director SMG) and Mikhail Shvydkoy of people who come to stage their (Special Representative of the President of events at our five Museums, from the the Russian Federation) unveiling plans for parliamentary select committee on UK-Russia Year of Culture 2014 climate change meeting in the Science 12 Descendants of the Blackett family (owners) Museum’s Atmosphere gallery, to and the Hedleys (engineers) attend the 200th Children in Need basing its Yorkshire anniversary of Puffing Billy’s public debut in 1814 appeal at Bradford’s National Media 13 Michael Portillo films Great British Railway Museum – not forgetting generous Journeys at the National Railway Museum, York visits by five famous astronauts during 14 HRH The Prince of Wales opens the refurbished the past year.’ [More on page 47] Station Hall, with NRM Director Paul Kirkman 12 13 14

6 7 encouraging were the 44,000 paying visitors who turned up, 27% of them new to the Museum, almost all being A LURE FOR those culture-loving ‘engaged adults’ every gallery aspires to attract. LONDON’S Curator Greg Hobson was thrilled to honour Ray-Jones, who died aged only 30 yet influenced successive CULTURE generations by having departed from the arch styles of ‘post-pictorialist’ photography prevailing in 1960s Britain. LOVERS The show ran for six months in London before its tour via the National Media Museum and overseas. Bond producer The capital now has a and SMG cheerleader Michael G Wilson destination space for was finally vindicated for his five-year sharing the world-class campaign to secure donations and National Photography create Media Space with the dual aims of showcasing Bradford’s superb Collection from Bradford collections in London and boosting awareness of other gems in Yorkshire.

Alongside the exhibition, Sir Richard artin Parr says: ‘Tony Ray-Jones’s had formally declared the Virgin Media pictures were about England. Studio space open and stepped into M They had that contrast, that seedy 1000 Hands, an interactive audiovisual eccentricity, but they showed it in a very installation by the design collective subtle way. They have an ambiguity, a Universal Everything, which invited visual anarchy. They showed me what visitor participation through a specially was possible.’ created smartphone app.

What better baptism for a whopping new Science Museum Director Ian London gallery of 600 square metres for Blatchford concluded: ‘Media Space staging world-class exhibitions? This is a huge breakthrough – the gallery’s prestige space is the more surprising completion unleashes expectations for sitting in the Science Museum. With to display more of our collection. It is its own licensed café attached. As well a point of departure, not of arrival.’ as a 300-square-metre Virgin Media Studio for experimental performances. All was made possible by the Principal Clockwise: Ian Blatchford, Richard Branson and Founding Sponsor Virgin Media, the Michael Wilson at the Media Space launch… The collectors Michael and Jane Wilson, Universal Everything and You installation in Virgin Media Studio… People-watchers Sean O’Hagan and the Dana and Albert R Broccoli and Kate Fox discuss English social ritual with Foundation (cue James Bond). Martin Parr in the IMAX… The Only in England photography exhibition at Media Space… Anna, widow of Tony Ray-Jones, Martin Parr The £4.5 million Media Space was and curator Greg Hobson tour the exhibition inaugurated with Only in England, a double bill of photography by Tony Ray- Jones, adopted mentor to Martin Parr who selected unseen works from 2700 contact sheets in the National Collection and made new prints – and showed We chose Tony his own early work titled The Non- Ray-Jones’s pictures Conformists. Everyone from Sir Richard because they were about Branson to the Wilsons and Ray-Jones’s England – they have a widow Anna turned up for the launch. The reviews were superb, reminding visual anarchy us that London has long lagged behind MARTIN PARR PHOTOGRAPHER SHOWING Paris and New York in terms of public AT ONLY IN ENGLAND spaces for photography. Even more

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n March Chancellor George Osborne The Museum’s mission is to explore kick-started fundraising for a new where science met industry and the I world-class exhibition space at modern world began. As the focus CASH the Museum of Science & Industry, of our heritage site, Liverpool Road UNEQUALLED Manchester’s leading visitor attraction Station’s historical importance and site of the world’s first inter-city is universally recognised. Major BOOST FOR railway station. During Osborne’s interventions are planned on every one AMONG APPS visit, he announced £800,000 for the of the Station Building’s three levels. Museum and a further £4 million for the In practical terms, the Network Rail MANCHESTER University of Manchester, in addition to plan to sever the Museum’s mainline the National Graphene Institute. He saw access is forcing us to plan fresh ways ere’s a privileged step into an the cash boost ‘bringing more balanced to maximise our attractions. astonishing digital realm. Our new growth across the UK and building a iPad app, Journeys of Invention, more resilient economy’. Museum Director Jean Franczyk with H is the first deep narrative from a Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Mark Walport, who lectured at the Museum on science museum collection – and This spring the transfer of Collider climate change making it took as much work as we’d from London to Manchester required put into a sizable new gallery in terms the exhibition to be adapted to Artist’s impression of Manchester’s planned temporary exhibition space in of research, writing, conservation available space. Under the new ten- the 1830 Warehouse and photography. Once on board, you year Masterplan, the creation of a explore key ideas in the history of bespoke gallery in the Grade I listed science through 14 interactive stories 1830 Warehouse will accelerate that are cunningly interlinked. You can and one of the co-authors of Journeys, project managed this, Richard Horton a cutting-edge science exhibition This will inspire the study, rotate and even operate 84 of says it’s like having a curator take you led conservation, Boris Jardine co- programme and improve capacity. Jean the Science Museum’s most iconic on a guided tour of the Museum, only authored the stories and the project Franczyk, Director of the Museum, next generation of scientists and engineers objects. Take a 360-degree look without all the walking. The curated was developed with award-winning app commented: ‘This financial support by inside Apollo 10’s command module... tours run from the ‘new science’ of publisher Touch Press. the Government could not be offered here in Manchester, bringing examine a flea with Robert Hooke’s the 17th century, through to molecular at a more important time. Enabling more balanced growth 17th-century microscope... write biology and the new electronics. The The app costs £6.99 – see the Museum to host world-class across the UK messages and encode them with a multimedia journeys make profuse sciencemuseum.org.uk/journeys exhibitions will have a huge cultural working model of a Second World War use of film, images and much seldom- impact on Manchester and the region.’ George Osborne Chancellor of the Exchequer Enigma machine, then share them seen art from our own collection. Clockwise: Photographer Nick Mann producing 360-degree images of Science Museum objects for with friends to decipher. the Journeys of Invention app… Andrew Nahum, What’s breathtaking is the high- Principal Curator of Technology and Engineering, The app has been called ‘a magnificent resolution photography which takes launches the app… Illustration of a flea from Micrographia, 1665, produced by Robert Hooke reputational project’. Andrew Nahum, you behind the glass of a museum by viewing through his compound microscope, Senior Keeper at the Science Museum display case and up close. Selina Pang formerly in the George III collection

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How the Science Museum turned particle physics into pure theatre – and created a new language for staging serious exhibitions I particularly like the fresh, theatrical approach the museum is taking to bringing the drama and excitement of cutting-edge science to the public

Rolf-DIETER Heuer CERN Director General

12 LIFT HERE 17 This page: The Collider project team comprising Ulrika Danielsson, Project Management Support Assistant; Rupert Cole, Content Developer for Exhibitions; Dr Harry Cliff, Fellow of Modern Science; Richard Horton, Conservator of Metals and Engineering; Gemma Levett, Exhibitions Tour Manager; and curator Ali Boyle, Deputy Keeper of COLLIDER: Science and Medicine Launch events, clockwise below: Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN, MAKING THE meets Chancellor George Osborne… Peter Higgs answers questions from young scientists in an Left: Probing the mysteries hour-long Q&A… Nima Arkani-Hamed, winner of quantum physics at of the Fundamental Physics Prize, and novelist Collider: Professor Peter Ian McEwan explore the connections between art INVISIBLE Higgs of boson fame, and and science, with broadcaster Martha Kearney The Rt Hon George Osborne hosting… Stephen Hawking gives a moving account MP speaking at the opening of his long life in fundamental physics VISIBLE Middle pages: Visitors are immersed in video and sound amid displays of genuine artefacts from the Large Hadron Collider in an environment recognisably simulating CERN itself

54,000 people visited the ticketed exhibition, which was hailed by the Independent as being ‘better than the real thing’ and Radio 4 as ‘refreshingly grown up’. The Economist added: ‘The museum pulled off the even harder trick of depicting CERN’s character.’

Sponsored by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and Winton Capital Management, the ‘achingly glamorous’ high-calibre launch events involved Stephen Hawking, Peter Higgs (fresh from winning his Nobel Prize), theoretician Nima Arkani-Hamed, writer Ian McEwan, broadcaster Martha Kearney and CERN DG Rolf-Dieter he Science Museum Group is After visiting CERN (the European Heuer. Chancellor George Osborne determined to ‘dumb up’ science Organization for Nuclear Research, and the London Philharmonia added T – and nothing sums this up better where the LHC is based), they quickly chutzpah. There was also an exclusive than Collider, the ambitious exhibition realised that the true star of the show reception for Lords and MPs, hosted that aims to take visitors inside the was neither the collider’s quest to seek by the Parliamentary Office of Science world’s largest experiment, the the Higgs particle, which is responsible and Technology. Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. for mass; nor Peter Higgs, who first Director Ian Blatchford wanted postulated the existence of the particle Later events saw Lisa Jardine and fellow this radical exhibition to tackle the in the 1960s; nor the standard model, historian Jon Agar delve into big science, staggering endeavour of 10,000 the theory of all particles and forces and a special screening of the award- scientists and engineers to build and (save gravity) which the Higgs would winning documentary film Particle Fever, run the 27 km LHC to explore invisible complete. It was the mighty particle- with its director Mark Levinson and star subatomic worlds and provide new smashing machine itself, with its Monica Dunford. insights into the nature of the universe. cathedral-sized detectors and endless CERN is an extraordinary supply of superlatives – biggest, place and the exhibition The exhibition’s first stop on its UK The creative team behind the exhibition hottest, coldest and so on. team have done a great job and international tour is the Museum was in itself remarkable, including of capturing the excitement, of Science & Industry in Manchester, curators Alison Boyle and Harry The creative team wanted to put the where it was launched with the help of Cliff (who, at Cambridge University, scientists at the heart of the story by awe and wonder of the LHC broadcaster Richard Bacon, Manchester works on the LHC); lead designer blending theatre, science and of course and physics University physicist Jeff Forshaw and his Pippa Nissen; Olivier Award-winning objects from the Museum’s collections colleague TV star Professor Brian Cox, PROFESSOR BRIAN COX MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY playwright Michael Wynne; and video and from CERN, ranging from magnets who also makes a cameo appearance artist Finn Ross, another Olivier winner. to a top engineer’s bicycle. In the end in Collider – fetching the coffee.

13 14 15 16 This page: The Collider project team comprising Ulrika Danielsson, Project Management Support Assistant; Rupert Cole, Content Developer for Exhibitions; Dr Harry Cliff, Fellow of Modern Science; Richard Horton, Conservator of Metals and Engineering; Gemma Levett, Exhibitions Tour Manager; and curator Ali Boyle, Deputy Keeper of COLLIDER: Science and Medicine Launch events, clockwise below: Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN, MAKING THE meets Chancellor George Osborne… Peter Higgs answers questions from young scientists in an Left: Probing the mysteries hour-long Q&A… Nima Arkani-Hamed, winner of quantum physics at of the Fundamental Physics Prize, and novelist Collider: Professor Peter Ian McEwan explore the connections between art INVISIBLE Higgs of boson fame, and and science, with broadcaster Martha Kearney The Rt Hon George Osborne hosting… Stephen Hawking gives a moving account MP speaking at the opening of his long life in fundamental physics VISIBLE Middle pages: Visitors are immersed in video and sound amid displays of genuine artefacts from the Large Hadron Collider in an environment recognisably simulating CERN itself

13 14 15 16 specifically integrate a new café with awareness of many parallel projects the Science Museum’s first significant for the next five years. The National gallery in a decade, both to showcase Railway Museum is re-curating the When design contemporary media and announce Great Hall and developing its vast an international destination.’ outside space to chime with the city’s plans for York Central. In Manchester proves an Having established our Museums’ our six listed structures encourage ambitions, the necessary funds must open-air landscaping of this industrial be raised. In the Science Museum’s museum, while also receiving important investment case a new library and research centre touring exhibitions such as Collider. for 2015 are fully funded and RIBA In Bradford the Media Museum has a award-winning firms queued up for menu of radical plans for emphasising Attractive spaces inside the contract. Livingstone adds: ‘This its position as a national museum. and out can dramatically project places fundamentals such enhance a museum visit, as scholarship and collections at the ‘It is our business as museums to so our sites are taking their heart of our Masterplan.’ keep developing,’ Livingstone insists. ‘It’s a way of staying in control of our appearance more seriously A second new gallery, Information Age, destiny, to be driving our own vision and by Universal Design Studios, which transforming our Museums, rather than opens in autumn 2014, has raised reacting to the next financial scenario.’

masterplan sets out a framework from which other great ideas A emerge, says Karen Livingstone, SMG Director of Masterplan and Estate. All the Museums in the Group and the storage site at Wroughton have been developing their plans during the past year. We can define our Masterplans against the key themes of the decade to entice diverse new audiences. Good design changes We can express them through how people behave subtle shifts in the programming of contemporary science. Karen Livingstone Director of Masterplan and Estate More immediately, though, visible improvements can transform the total visitor experience: new galleries and cafés have arrived at our Museums. Livingstone says: ‘Out go dingy dated spaces from another era, and in comes daylight – literally, in the case of the Science Museum’s lofty foyer, where for years the massive windows were covered.’ Commissioning award- winning furniture for our entrance lobby and installing a wondrous airborne velodrome – and making it visible from the street – amounts to a statement of intent. This page: Ben Kelly’s new Media Space café at the Science Museum… The new BFI Mediatheque suite ‘These differences influence at the National Media Museum people’s behaviour, they start to shift where visitors enjoy personal perceptions of the organisation,’ viewing booths Livingstone says. ‘Making a priority of Opposite, clockwise: Emily Pugh’s the quality of architecture and gallery Bicycle Cloud of historic velocipedes soars over the entrance hall of design has been a step change for the Science Museum… The newly this Group, whereas it’s the norm in installed Warehouse Café at the most modern galleries. Ben Kelly’s Museum of Science & Industry where new glass entrance gates, designs for the new £4.5 million Media designed by Peter Saville, frame Space and its Virgin Media Studio views of the public realm beyond

18 19 television, animation and new media. and the scientific films of Charles The anniversary aimed to refocus Urban, while Widescreen Weekend energies on our core expertise. saw Professor Sir Christopher Frayling BRADFORD AS exploring the aesthetics of Sergio Our 30th Birthday Collection Favourites Leone. BAF provided animation exhibition reinterpreted key objects masterclasses and screen talks TIME MACHINE from national collections selected by the embracing the craft of hit games titles public, schools and community groups. such as Dishonored and Tomb Raider. They included the earliest surviving The lifetime award for Ian Mackinnon Huge public support for the photographic negative and Lee and and Peter Saunders was accompanied National Media Museum has Turner’s first colour movie footage. by filmed congratulations from Tim recognised its economic and A newly designed Mediatheque suite Burton, who called them ‘great artists’. opened to offer on-demand viewing social impact in Bradford of 2500 titles from the BFI National Last year’s concerns over the Collection of Film and TV, the Yorkshire Museum’s future have been addressed Film Archive and the Museum’s TV with a Masterplan to reconfigure he National Media Museum Heaven collection. The crowd puller in the site as a more recognisable celebrated its 30th birthday in its the autumn was Doctor Who and Me, an national museum. SMG Chief Executive T Bradford home with a weekend exhibition marking 50 years since the Ian Blatchford says: ‘One of the of activities attended by almost 6000 first broadcast, displaying the personal key things we need is a wonderful people, while the annual visit total of collections of Whovian ‘super-fans’ plus temporary exhibition space in order 479,000 showed a significant increase hands-on events for children and parents to receive high-quality exhibitions among those who visit primarily for our to learn how to make electrical circuits. generated by the Science Museum galleries and exhibitions. The Museum and internationally.’ is home to 3.5 million items of historical Twentieth anniversaries were also Clockwise from here: Director of the National significance, many in unrivalled world- celebrated by the Bradford International Below: The exhibition Doctor Who and Me proved Media Museum Jo class collections. Traditional and Film Festival (BIFF) and Bradford to be the autumn crowd-puller Quinton-Tulloch interactive galleries located across Animation Festival (BAF). The first celebrating its 30th Main image opposite: Animation team Mackinnon birthday… Film critic eight floors of the Museum investigate featured the work of British director and Saunders receive a lifetime achievement Mark Kermode on and celebrate film, photography, Sally Potter (Ginger & Rosa, Orlando) award at the Bradford Animation Festival double bass with The Dodge Brothers who presented a new score for the silent classic Hell’s Hinges… William Fox Talbot’s ‘Latticed Window in Lacock Abbey, 1835’ – the earliest photographic negative – with the camera he used… Actor Brian Cox with his lifetime achievement award at the Film Festival

Mediatheque gives the people of Yorkshire free access to hours and hours of well-loved treasures from our cinematic heritage AMANDA NEVILL CEO, BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

20 21 The science museum in Manchester makes a huge contribution to the cultural vibrancy of our city and its visitor economy

SIR RICHARD LEESE LEADER, MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL

aimed at independent adult audiences.’ A broader strategy to share projects across SMG secured for 2014 the cutting-edge Collider exhibition from the Science Museum, and 3D: printing the future follows. Endorsing the Museum’s importance to contemporary science debate, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Mark Walport, chose us to launch his lecture series on climate change and Minister for Energy, Michael Fallon MP, chaired a round- table discussion here with the region’s energy providers.

This year’s vibrant cultural programme showed off the refurbished Station Waiting Rooms adjacent to exhibitions recognising local industry, Creating the Illusion: Animation in the North-West, and objects from our own handling collection in Everyday Relics. The but we were also rewarded with an Manchester Science Festival continues important injection of Treasury cash under Siemens’ sponsorship as the to kickstart fundraising for a much- Museum’s annual flagship event 30 YEARS OF needed new temporary exhibition [see page 51]. space. Museum Director Jean Franczyk says: ‘We have become a fundamentally A new schools programme launched different organisation since joining in January and STEM-related festivals Manchester of contemporary science included All the SMG and have been on a very fast-paced trajectory to establish our Aboard, Made in Manchester, Steam, international standing.’ Sweat and Sewers and the Manchester PROGRESS mini maker faire. The magnificent A lively programme of exhibitions daily demonstrations of working steam Our Museum in Castlefield boosted total visit numbers to 669,000, engines and original mill machinery first prize going to the Wellcome remain at the core of our ongoing has begun capitalising on public programme. its historic site along with Collection exhibition Brains: The Mind as Matter, which doubled target challenging exhibitions expectations by attracting 100,000 visits. On transferring from their debut in London, displays were hat a way to celebrate our 30th supplemented by half as many more Clockwise: The world’s oldest passenger railway anniversary on the Castlefield from local collections. Franczyk says: station and its 1830 Warehouse form the core of the Museum of Science & Industry… A camera from site with its six listed structures. ‘Such a serious-minded exhibition W the handling collection on display in the Everyday Not only has the Museum of Science was a departure for the Museum, but Relics exhibition… Half term at Steam, Sweat & Industry triggered a daring ten-year Manchester with its many universities and Sewers… The elegantly refurbished station galleries display Creating the Illusion: Animation Masterplan to magnify its heritage has an appetite for high-quality, in the North-West… Marius Kwint, curator of the as home to the Industrial Revolution, challenging approaches to science Brains: The Mind as Matter exhibition

22 23 Breaking news generated media coverage even before the opening and To celebrate our 100th the Contemporary Science team went birthday the Museum STAYING to great pains to obtain a 3D printed gun to display in the Antenna news came up with the Life Game, gallery. Its design was by a non-profit an original and brilliant event digital organisation and placed, open ABREAST OF PROFESSOR SIR JOHN SAVILL source, on their website for anyone to CHIEF EXECUTIVE, MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL download. Antenna’s online poll asking if we should have access to 3D-print TODAY’S NEWS from across Europe and drew 6500 plans for guns divided respondents visitors. Katrina Nilsson, Head of almost exactly down the middle, Contemporary Science, said: ‘The Our Contemporary Science suggesting that law-makers face a robots represented quality research challenge in ensuring public safety. team makes its own technologies and by curating the Among the year’s ten news exhibits, a headlines by mounting live festival in a jungle setting [we] bioMASON brick, grown from bacteria, ‘meet the scientists’ events demonstrated the impact of also prompted visitors to share their contemporary science at its best.’ views via social media. Her team also provide regular updates he Antenna gallery is the home Major collaborations included our in the Who am I? gallery and daily of contemporary science, exploring weekend festival for the Medical Antenna science news reports online. the latest news in science, Research Council’s centenary, where T Seven ‘meet the scientists’ Antenna technology, medicine, the environment 11 research groups became part of Live events attracted 28,000 people and innovation from every angle. It an immersive theatre experience in all. In the Live Science programme is the perfect place to position our called The Life Game. Marking five groups of researchers came to supporters as thought leaders. Our International Women’s Day, the the Museum to show visitors the feature exhibition at the Science Museum Beyond Earth festival hosted talks process of science at first hand and to – 3D: printing the future – created a and workshops with women such use the data collected from visitors continuing debate by displaying 600 3D as space technologist Marie-Claire to further their research. printed objects showing the explosion Perkinson who develop the latest of creativity from 3D printing, cutting technology to explore space. The Dana Centre’s discussion through the hype to highlight real programme complemented the 3D: innovations. The exhibition included The Robot SafariEU festival in printing the future, Mind Maps, Who advanced aeroplane and car parts, partnership with EUNIC brought am I? and Atmosphere exhibitions and medical implants and devices. together 13 biomimetic robots galleries as well as broader issues in contemporary science themes.

From top: Cambridge University Eco Racing team’s latest solar racing car at Antenna Live… The Swiss-built Pleurobot unveiled its tetrapod motor skills at the Robot Safari… The headline-making 3D printed gun on display in Antenna’s Innovation Now… Visitors aiding research in the MRC’s Life Game for adult participants

Clockwise from top: Dana Centre debate First Person Plural: the cult of the photographer and the culture of social media chaired by Steven Bode (off camera) with speakers Adam Broomberg, Julian Stallabrass, Oliver Chanarin, Lucy Kimbell and Nina Wakeford... The HALO unmanned aerial vehicle demonstrated at Antenna Live… A 3D printed prosthetic limb… Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya holding a drama event at the Beyond Earth festival... Actress Jenny Agutter collecting her ‘mini me’ 3D printed figure at 3D: printing the future

24 25 THE GREATEST OF GATHERINGS Six world-renowned locomotives proved to be record-breaking crowd-pullers to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Mallard’s unbeaten world steam speed record

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Opposite: HRH The Prince of Wales takes ho could have guessed that six to Mallard’s cab at York and recalls Queen Mary’s saloon from his childhood… Cosmetic sleek 1930s steam locomotives restoration of the visiting locomotive 4489 would break more records Dominion of Canada… Former A4 W footplateman John Anthony and wife than they did in their heyday? The audience pulling power of these Above: Record crowds attend the Great glamorously streamlined engines Goodbye at Shildon exceeded all expectations, giving the National Railway Museums in Shildon For the York Great Gatherings a quarter brought in a further £50,000 with its the staggering success of the Mallard and York their best ever year, with of a million visitors flocked to the ticketed photography and dining events. 75 series of events of which HRH The 1.2 million visits. Museum and the tourism body Visit Simon Smalley at NRM Shildon said Prince of Wales is Patron.’ York has credited Mallard 75 for a city- he had ‘never had queues like it’ in On 3 July 1938, the Mallard A4 Class wide visitor surge. the gift shop. To cap it all, Prince Charles steamed steam locomotive set a world record in aboard Bittern to unveil a plaque by reaching 126 mph. That record After some winter touring duties, all six The transcontinental move of those declaring York’s Station Hall officially still stands and in the past year we locomotives gathered again in February mighty machines, Dwight D Eisenhower refurbished, and to be doubly delighted celebrated the 75th anniversary of at Shildon for the Great Goodbye which and Dominion of Canada, was made by visiting Queen Mary’s saloon, familiar this historic achievement by bringing welcomed 120,000 visitors over nine possible thanks to £260,000 and from his childhood. The prince was together at Mallard’s home in York five days. The annual visit numbers for NRM £240,000 promised as in-kind support overheard fondly reliving his memories. surviving sisters: Union of South Africa, York reached 926,000, up more than 25% from the Museum’s project partners Dominion of Canada, Bittern, Sir Nigel on 2012–13 and well ahead of estimates. including haulage company Moveright Gresley and Dwight D Eisenhower. International, shipping company ACL, The reunions of the six A4s attracted Peel Ports in the UK and Ceres and The Mallard speed Thanks to the efforts of 70 volunteers more than 364,000 visits. The Canadian National Railways in Canada. during the summer’s Great Gathering, commercial turnover during York’s race was as exciting 44,000 people saw the footplate of Great Gatherings exceeded £1 million, Project Manager Tobias Lumb and in 1938 as the Moon race an A4 and had the excellence of its providing a return to the Science volunteer Tony Oldfield can take much was in 1969. People came to engineering explained. All were built Museum Group of nearly £500,000. credit for marshalling the star locos the A4 reunions to admire in Doncaster to the design of Sir Nigel In addition, visitors to those events and the associated celebrations. Paul spectacular engineering Gresley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of generously gave a total of £140,000 in Kirkman, Director of the NRM, said that the London and North Eastern Railway. donations plus Gift Aid and the Museum it had been an ‘amazing year owing to PAUL KIRKMAN DIRECTOR, NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM

28 29 LOVELOCK A SHOCK OF UNLOCKED PSYCHOLOGY IN MIND MAPS here better to show off the ephemera of the visionary and W inventor James Lovelock than the museum that inspired him in ur world-class medical collections the first place? As well as charting provide a remarkable opportunity a remarkable 70-year career that O to tell stories from the past 250 stretches from colds to burns, via years of the efforts to reveal the hidden freezing tissues, to the chemistry of processes of our minds. Divided into atmospheres, both terrestrial and four episodes between 1780 and 2014, Martian, and even the creation of virtual Mind Maps: Stories from Psychology worlds, the free exhibition – Unlocking ranges from mesmerism to cognitive Lovelock: Scientist, Inventor, Maverick behavioural therapy to recent advances – provides an opportunity to celebrate in brain scanning. Mental wellbeing where he became enthralled with is as pressing an issue today as science at the age of six. He says: ever before, according to Curator ‘I learned the science that has kept me of Psychology Phil Loring, of the busy not by being taught it, but by going British Psychological Society which to places like the Science Museum.’ supported the exhibition.

The Museum’s big steam engines, push Beyond an opening film by the buttons and a description of the use of broadcaster Samira Ahmed, the explosives in mining launched him on extraordinary objects in this free an unusual career trajectory, including exhibition are anchored in the physical: 40 years working alone in his own lab. perhaps most dramatic of all is the Italian table where a human nervous Within 84 boxes of material from system has been dissected and Lovelock’s lab, all acquired by the varnished onto its surface. Science Museum in 2012 for £300,000, Alexandra Johnson and her team had The pioneering use of electricity in the everything from his school reports to 1780s to understand nerve activity is James Bond-style stories, hand-painted exemplified by the elegant table-top Christmas cards (adorned with worm- workbench of the Italian doctor Luigi On show at the Mind Maps exhibition: Luigi like creatures he dubbed ‘Luvles’), Galvani, which has not been on public Galvani’s elegant workbench of 1780 with its static notebooks, charts, manuscripts and display for a century, and by a ‘frog electricity generator at left and Leyden jar for storing the charge at right – unseen in public for a materials on his 50 or so patents. pistol’ which made a frog’s leg twitch century… The saddle coil for transcranial magnetic when fired. We also discover the stimulation (TMS), made in Wales in 2006… Of the 90 items put on show, the most origins of the word ‘battery’. 1980s geodesic EEG sensor net with head mount… Wooden cat, believed to have been made by revealing of all is Lovelock’s electron British neurologist Sir Charles Sherrington to capture detector. This underwhelming- Neurologist Charles Sherrington was demonstrate the role of nervous reflexes looking device helped to change the fascinated by the way cats keep their face of environmental science by balance and visitors can see the model detecting pesticides, CFCs and other that helped the Nobel Prize-winner key pollutants to show how humankind Lovelock passionately believes that James Lovelock beside his gas chromatograph illustrate their poise. Other more recent is changing the planet. lone scientists work more like artists from 1972 at the exhibition Unlocking Lovelock… items include the first depth recording At right in second image, the repurposed and can be more original. ‘I am domestic gas flowmeter used to test the of brain waves made in the UK in 1958 His dawning realisation that ‘pollution delighted that the Science Museum accuracy of his measurements… Lovelock family and a first-generation PET (positron was global, not local’ also helped shape has chosen to display this collection attending the exhibition: daughter Christine, emission tomography) scanner. The granddaughter Rebecca, daughter Jane Flynn his biggest brainwave: Gaia, the idea of – I hope that it will show the next and son Andrew with James’s apparatus Lancet said Mind Maps ‘documents Earth as a self-regulating system that generation how it is possible to do designed for a NASA experiment on Mars this rich history brilliantly’. maintains favourable conditions for scientific research as a lone inventor terrestrial life. and scientist.’

30 31 blind, with the audience in a blacked- Clockwise from top centre: out studio. Other live performances Steamsong, a multimedia opera by John Kefala-Kerr at the National included X&Y, Centrally Heated Railway Museum, Shildon… Going Knickers and Kraftwerk Uncovered Dark, a drama about blindness at A FINE the Science Museum… Victoria by the German band Icebreaker, Gould and Marcus du Sautoy in his while SMG’s new production, Science play X&Y, performed at our London Museum Live: The Energy Show, and Manchester Museums… Poster CROSS- from ‘Quicker by Rail’ exhibition clocked 34 venues during a at NRM York… The National Media nationwide tour. Museum’s new live show Lights! Camera! Action! … The multimedia CULTURAL performance Unknown Empires in In the Virgin Media Studio, Unknown the Virgin Media Studio… Mat Fraser Empires was a multimedia performing his Cabinet of Curiosities SMORGASBORD performance exploring hidden in the Science Museum IMAX subcultures of dance among older Far left: A citizen taking part in people. Another event there saw Hooked on Music, a citizen science Exploring artists’ Universal Everything ‘engaging in project at the Museum of Science & Industry perspectives on the past, romantic explorations of computer present and future of code’, according to founder Matt Pyke. science and technology Almost 20 years ago, the Science Museum Arts Programme committed us to working with contemporary ith the Science Museum’s artists on every major capital project. IMAX auditorium now Alongside commissions for new W converted to receive live artworks, Hannah Redler, Head of theatre performances, there’s seldom Media Space and Arts Programme, a week without music and drama. this year commissioned a new work of Most eye-opening for his frank insights fiction, Shackleton’s Man Goes South was performance artist Mat Fraser by Tony White. in his journey through the history of disability titled Cabinet of Curiosities. The National Railway Museum No less enlightening was Going Dark, mounted several Gallery shows – It’s an astonishing evocation of going Quicker By Rail: Speed and Railway Advertising evoked speed through posters; the photography exhibition Lines in the Landscape showed us exactly that; while NRM Shildon hosted Rail Art 2013 by the Guild of Railway Artists. York’s annual event Locos in a Different Light invited art students to illuminate the iconic A4 locomotives, and Shildon closed the Mallard 75 celebrations with a performance of Steamsong, a new multimedia opera by John Kefala-Kerr.

The Museum of Science & Industry launched a schools programme with specially devised science shows such as Forces and Flight, Pablo Fanque’s Circus of Dreams and Inventors Wanted, all performed in a beautiful new show space, Warehouse for the World. The National Media Museum created interactive science shows, one of which – Science of Winter – ran for five days to sell-out audiences. Its photography programme hosted Copper Horses, a show of work produced by Chris Harrison as Bradford Fellow in Photography.

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Matt Hick Jan Hicks MOSI Archives & Jon Kaddish CREATING NRM Volunteer Coordinator Information Manager SM Visitor Services Manager ‘Has set the Group’s volunteering ‘Curated a standout Creating the ‘Makes things tick, knows all SPARKS agenda’ Illusion exhibition’ about everyone’ Our Museums inevitably rely on teamwork throughout the 1000-strong workforce. But here’s what colleagues have said about this cross section of two dozen live wires – among many more live wires all across the Group Dave Bentley Toni Booth Ben Lheureux, Tobias Lumb Scott McKenzie-Cook Marieke Navin MOSI Director SM Workshops Technician NMeM Associate Curator SM Event Operations Manager NRM Snr Projects Manager SM Special Events Manager of Manchester Science Festival ‘34 years’ service, beautiful ‘Exceeded expectations with ‘Always smiling, boundless energy’ ‘Organised the Great Gatherings’ ‘A go-getter, he gives off a vibe’ ‘Leading the way with Citizen craftsmanship’ Doctor Who and Me’ Science’ Job titles relate to roles in 2013–14. Some of these talented people have since been promoted

Simon Braithwaite Kate Chatfield Katie Dabin Selina Pang Pam Porter Tim Procter NRM Curator of Will Stanley NMeM Collections MOSI Exhibitions SM Curator of Medicine SM Project and Production Manager NRM Shildon Events Officer Archive & Library Collections SM Press Officer Information Officer Interpretation Manager ‘Her lively curiosity is leading ‘Committed to the Journeys app’ ‘Excelled during the Mallard ‘Organised superb family ‘Dedicated champion for ‘Quiet, diligent, classic unsung hero’ ‘An eye for detail, introducing change’ the way’ 75 celebrations’ history conference’ social media’

Sam Fletcher Jennifer Francis Aasiya Hassan Cristina Henao SM Snr Visitor Shea Taylor Emma Thom NMeM Snr Web Will White Nick Wyatt SM Explainer SM Snr Development Executive SM Outreach Officer Experience Duty Manager MOSI Explainer Developer Content Coordinator NMeM Communications Manager SM Acting Head of Library ‘We’re trying to recruit more ‘The go-to person in Development’ ‘Performer, developer, she travels ‘She’s in charge, she knows ‘Live on stage, an absolute star’ ‘Her social channels reach ‘Joined during a crisis, stayed on ‘One of those behind-the-scenes like him’ the world’ everything’ top-40 web charts’ an even keel’ leaders’

34 35 SMG LEARNING

HOW WE’RE CHANGING YOUR FUTURE The Science Museum Group’s world-renowned Learning team serves

up a wondrous mix of fun, ingenuity and inspiration. But nobody Launching his industry-led STEM campaign, titled Your Life, at the Science Museum in May: should be in doubt about the serious contribution we’re making the Chancellor, George Osborne, was joined by Minister for Women Nicky Morgan (centre) to the nation’s future prosperity by enthralling record numbers of and Education Minister Liz Truss to engage in enthusiastic conversation with students, teachers young people – nearly 1.8 million in the past year – with the infinite and entrepreneurs about Britain’s need for better maths and physics education. These sectors are, possibilities of a career in science, engineering and technology he said, ‘essential to our economic security’

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SMG LEARNING: ONE WIDE-REACHING TEAM SMG LEARNING: Spreading the word he Science Museum in London of The Energy Show; a TeachFirst TRAINING THE SCIENTISTS ith museums in London, York Castle Museum and Hull FORMING PARTNERSHIPS is where the six-year-old James conference aimed at inspiring high- Manchester, York, Bradford and Museums Service. T Lovelock was inspired in 1925 to calibre graduates to go into teaching; Our multidisciplinary SMG Learning W Shildon, the reach of the Science The Science Museum’s impact pursue a career that made him the highly praised ‘Early Bird’ sessions and Outreach teams trained up- Museum Group’s learning activities is In Bradford, the National Media extends far beyond London. It has most influential independent scientist for children with an autistic spectrum and-coming climate scientists from huge. The National Railway Museum Museum has devised new educational worked in Bristol with SS Great and inventor of the 20th century. It is disorder; a national teacher training Imperial College and University in Shildon has launched a new events activities for holidays, such as a Britain in an Arts Council and DfE where Bill Gates has hung out with his programme aimed at 2000 teachers Colleges of Wales to deliver talks programme that attracted 28,000 Bollywood-themed half-term festival. programme to increase the number son. It is where Stephen Hawking says over five years, part of the Enterprising about their research; trained visitors in education groups during the The Museum’s summer blockbuster of school visits to the ship. An his fascination with physics was fuelled. Science programme, partnering more than 120 scientists in public year, while NRM York has helped to was Moving Stories: Children’s Books educational app developed in this with King’s College, London, and engagement, some from the Royal explain the science and engineering from Page to Screen, developed in partnership, Full Steam Ahead, The Science Museum is also where backed by BP; a three-year effort Society and the Royal College of behind its extraordinary collection partnership with Seven Stories, has won an industry award. On the the Chancellor, George Osborne, along funded by BG Group to raise science Pathologists; hosted and contributed with live shows, workshops and more, the National Centre for Children’s three-year Climate Science Outreach with three UK ministers, this year literacy in five key London areas; to a select committee inquiry into from tours exploring the rich history Books. Opened in July by The Gruffalo Project, in which 3200 children launched Your Life, a major campaign and workshops tailored to teenagers the public understanding of climate of the railways to jaunts in the cabs of illustrator Axel Scheffler, the exhibition participated, the Museum worked to boost the numbers of young from disadvantaged backgrounds change; and worked with overseas famous locomotives. explored the art of adapting children’s with 83 schools and four partner people – especially women – studying in partnership with the Prince’s partners overseas, notably books for film and television. museums and science centres. science, technology, engineering and Trust, backed by the musician and in Malta and China. Almost 40,000 people visited York’s mathematics (STEM). Of the 1 million philanthropist will.i.am. National Railway Museum in education The Museum has worked with many Below: The live show From Rocket to Bullet children coming through our doors groups and the Museum was an local partners, such as Bradford demonstrates physical forces at the National in the past year, a record-breaking Our teams’ efforts are built on enthusiastic participant in National Science Festival and notably in a Railway Museum 450,000 people visited on educational relationships with schools, families and Science and Engineering Week. The Sorrell Foundation photography project Without the Science Right: A Building Bridges workshop explores trips or benefited from the Museum’s adults. The informal learning sector is Learning team also worked with local for teenagers inspired by the Museum’s structures in engineering at NRM... Primary school outreach programme, more than for key to the UK’s future economy, though Museum’s support of children to tell the story of the railways collection. In total there were 26,000 children in Hong Kong watch the Science Museum any other UK museum. in the past it has been criticised for this TeachFirst event we simply using animations in a partnership led visits to the Museum in booked outreach team perform the bilingual show It Takes Guts... At the National Media Museum lacking formal research to gauge its wouldn’t have been able to by the National Media Museum, with education groups, plus workshops Alex Scheffler talks to students about his Highlights of the Museum year impact. Today, Dr Alex Burch, SMG engage with the new pool of Bradford Museums and Galleries, and training events. books in Moving Stories included: a Q&A involving Nobel Director of Learning, says: ‘With our Prize-winner Peter Higgs and 400 academic research partners at King’s potential STEM teachers sixth-form physics students; 13,000 College London and Sheffield Hallam JESSAMY GOULD people watching the explosive science we are now leading the field.’ TEACHFIRST’S HEAD OF CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

Far left: 8th Purley Brownies enjoying an exclusive event at the Science Museum as part of a weekend festival which attracted 6500 Girl Guides

Left to right from top: Workshops held in partnership with the Prince’s Trust… Training the management team of Malta’s first interactive science centre… The Enterprising Science launch at the Science Museum with BP’s Peter Mather, Education Minister Liz Truss, SMG Director Ian Blatchford, computing guru Louis Pouzin and Snr Press Officer Julia Murray… ‘Early Bird’ sessions for children with autistic spectrum disorder… Families taking part in the Cockroach Tour, part of the Building Bridges project family weekend… STEM panel speakers at the TeachFirst seminar: Alexandra Burch, Claudenia Williams, Elizabeth Ebbs-Brewer, Harry Coster, Paul Williams and Simon Singh

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Far left: 8th Purley Brownies enjoying an exclusive event at the Science Museum as part of a weekend festival which attracted 6500 Girl Guides

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37 38 39 40 SMG LEARNING: THRILLING A HUB FOR YOUNG ADULTS NETWORKING n the past year 45,000 people attended Lates, the Science I Museum’s monthly evening for he Museum of Science & Industry adults only. Most were younger than in Manchester is a hub for learning 35. A record-breaking audience of T in the north. In the past year, the 7000 turned up to one ‘bio-revolution’ Museum has welcomed 54,000 visitors Lates, organised with the Francis Crick in education groups, including 37,000 Institute. Sir Paul Nurse, Director, and from schools, and has launched a new President of the Royal Society, said explainer team and primary schools he was delighted with what was the programme. During National Science Crick’s biggest public event to date, and Engineering Week Key Stage 3 where crowds could create and drink students explored cutting-edge digital a DNA cocktail, knit a blood vessel and technologies. The Museum manages meet twins taking part in epigenetics STEMNET, the Science, Technology, research. The Lates programme also Engineering and Mathematics Network, saw Radio 4 recording The Infinite for Greater Manchester. We coordinate Monkey Cage with astrophysicist Neil 1200 STEM Ambassador volunteers deGrasse Tyson; and a discussion of across the region, and this year brought Our partnership the science of cooperation with actress- networking opportunities to teachers at activist Lily Cole. One dedicated Lates the Museum’s first Raspberry Jam for with MOSI has allowed session was organised specially for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts. Siemens to inform the public 1150 Girl Guides. about the incredible innovations being delivered in our

region today Participation at our adults-only Lates events: Engineers from CERN engage Lates visitors with JUERGEN MAIER MD, SIEMENS UK INDUSTRY SECTOR objects and stories from the LHC... At the bio- revolution event partnered with the Francis Crick Institute some visitors knit a giant blood vessel while others explore genetics

Clockwise: At the Museum of Science & Industry, Inventors Wanted is an interactive storytelling experience... Pablo Fanque’s Circus of Dreams celebrates a British working-class hero... Our keen new team of Explainers, seen on a helter-skelter at the Museum’s Steam, Sweat and Sewers festival

42 43 THE SCIENCE BEHIND GIVING

Our Development team knows how to turn philanthropy into a fine art

ithin the Science Museum Group a virtuous circle is now W driven by culture, enterprise and philanthropy to boost our profile, extend our influence and help raise funds. Perhaps the pivotal event is the Director’s Annual Dinner held in the Science Museum, attended by a dazzling array of talent including Marcus du Sautoy; Anthony Geffen of Atlantic Productions; Daisy Goodwin, television producer; Deborah Bull, Executive Director, King’s Cultural Institute; Simon Singh, author; and Astronomer Royal Lord Rees, who in recognition of his many contributions to science was accorded a Fellowship of the Science Museum.

Of course, the Group still depends on Government support for its central role as custodian of 7.3 million objects of honour and keynote speaker at the (STFC), Winton Capital Management, Lottery and the STFC. The Group also of historic importance and in helping dinner was Cédric Villani, Director Embassy of Switzerland, Advanced met the £16 million target for London’s to inspire and educate the next of the Institut Henri Poincaré and Oncotherapy, National Instruments upcoming Information Age gallery. generation of scientists, engineers winner of the most prestigious prize and The Ogden Trust. and mathematicians. Director Ian in mathematics, the Fields Medal. His The Development department held Blatchford announced plans for a major lecture deftly intertwined economics Another notable opening marked a 45 events and welcomed 3000 people maths gallery. Appropriately, the guest and geometry and he referred to the joint venture between the National to the Museum this year. Our great curse of the mathematician who, as Media Museum in Bradford and the achievements were made possible in the legend of the Lady of Shalott, Science Museum. Our new £4.5 million by our generous financial supporters is condemned ‘to look at this world gallery, Media Space, was opened by listed on pages 68–69 only through its reflection’. Sir Richard Branson and Michael G Wilson, and supplies of Bollinger In November, Nima Arkani-Hamed celebrated the support of Virgin Media, Above left: Guest speaker at the 2013 Annual joined the launch events around along with Michael and Jane Wilson, Dinner, French mathematician Cédric Villani Collider, our pioneering exhibition about the Wilson Centre for Photography, Centre: Gavin Patterson, CEO of BT Group at an particle physics, along with luminaries the Broccoli Foundation and Hyundai. Information Age cultivation event… Professor such as Chancellor George Osborne, John Womersley, CEO of STFC, with Peter Higgs Russian Deputy Prime Minister for Unlocking Lovelock, our celebration at the Collider opening Social Affairs Olga Golodets, Stephen of the maverick James Lovelock, From top right: Director Ian Blatchford presenting Hawking, Rolf Heuer, Ian McEwan, was supported by Siemens and the Lord Martin Rees with his Science Museum Fellowship… Sir Richard Branson with Matt Pyke Dara Ó Briain and the newly minted Museum’s Founders Circle members, and Matt Tucker of Universal Everything at the Nobel laureate Peter Higgs. The Accenture, Barclays and Bayer. Media Virgin Media Studio opening… Celebrating support glittering range of patrons and Space and Antenna in London and from People’s Postcode Lottery.

supporters included the Science Collider’s transfer to Manchester Opposite: Russian Deputy PM Olga Golodets at and Technology Facilities Council were supported by People’s Postcode the Collider opening

44 45 and television. A half-term week was of Indian Cinema. Outreach activities given to exploring the technology examined the impact of Bollywood on behind the Skylanders Swap Force newly arrived South Asian communities FOCUS ON game, and last summer saw 330 in Bradford during the 1950s; while a ASTRONAUTS Explainer-led workshops. civic reception and on-stage interview with Bollywood star Jackie Shroff THE MEDIA In January the Museum hosted the were partnered by Asian Express SPLASH DOWN national launch of Open for Business, a newspaper and BBC Asian Network. powerful project funded by Arts Council Shroff dubbed the rise of Bollywood INDUSTRIES England to create a contemporary a ‘global sensation’. IN LONDON image archive of British manufacturing and industry. The Museum worked with All at the National Media Museum, clockwise: his year the National Media Multistory and the Magnum agency Celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema with the he space collections at the Science Bollywood Icons exhibition… Half-term insights Museum continued to focus on to commission nine world-renowned into the technology behind Skylanders… Magnum Museum are an irresistible draw for the science and technology of its Magnum photographers to document photographer Jonas Bendiksen talking about his T some of the best-known astronauts T work at the Open for Business exhibition collections, including new workshops manufacturing industries in nine on the planet, from the first Briton into developed during the Bradford Science British cities including Bradford. Five space to the last man on the Moon. Gene Festival. The Museum won a 2013 of the photographers gave education Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 in Bradford Council Community Award for workshops and gallery tours to discuss December 1972, the last Moon mission, Commitment to Family Learning, with their techniques. The exhibition is As a Government we came in to see the Apollo 10 command STEM activities this year including two touring to eight other venues, including will do what we can I always try to module, in which he was sent into lunar new interactive science shows: Lights! each SMG Museum. with strategic support but make time for orbit in May 1969. That was a dry run for Camera! Action!, looking at the science it also requires support this incredible museum the next mission, which put the first men of light and photography, and Reel to As part of the city-wide celebration of on the Moon’s surface. Real, telling the story of the Museum’s Indian cinema the Museum mounted the from everyone in Bradford Major Tim Peake British astronaut unique collections of film, photography exhibition Bollywood Icons: 100 Years ED VAIZEY CULTURE MINISTER Later last year, Captain Jim Lovell, the astronaut who led the crew of Apollo 13 to safety after their spacecraft was crippled by an explosion, held an impromptu question-and-answer session for visitors next to Apollo 10.

Safely back on Earth after living aboard the International Space Station, the tweeting and guitar-playing Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield came to the IMAX to share some of the stories from his new book. And it was in the same venue that the world’s media learned that Major Tim Peake had been selected by the European Space Agency as its first In the Science Museum’s official British astronaut. Major Peake Exploring Space gallery, Science delivered his own dose of inspiration to Minister David Willetts meets school children gathered specially at British astronauts Helen Sharman and Major Tim Peake… Beside the Museum, joining them via an internet the Apollo 10 command module, video link from Russia to ask for help Chris Hadfield, International naming his mission, as part of an Space Station Commander… Doug Millard, Deputy Keeper of ESA competition. Technologies and Engineering, with Gene Cernan, NASA astronaut… Roger Highfield, SMG Since the announcement, Major Peake Director of External Affairs, with has returned to the Museum to discuss Jim Lovell, NASA astronaut and space food with Heston Blumenthal and commander of Apollo 13 to launch a competition for schools. Helen Sharman, a regular visitor, has the distinction of being the first Briton to go into space in 1991. On display in the Museum is her spacesuit, which she stood beside as she told leading figures in British drama and theatre about her experiences in the Soviet-era Mir space station.

46 47 DIGITAL LEAPS FORWARD

The age of connectivity and the web expresses itself throughout the Group

othing sums up the increasingly blurred boundaries between N the real and the virtual than the dismantling and digitising of the Science Museum’s venerable shipping galleries. They make way for the Information Age gallery, opening this year. However, more than 1000 ghost ships now live on as a unique point- cloud model created in 3D from 2 billion precise measurements. University College London and ScanLAB Projects collaborated in a first for the UK museums sector by laser-scanning the entire gallery, which yielded a breathtaking fly-through video. Now high-spec data from this digital replica are being made more widely available.

SMG continued to expand its digital audience with our websites receiving Huge efforts are being invested to View the shipping galleries video at 26.5 million visits over the year. A newly digitise important national collections http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ developed ‘Visit us’ section transformed and the National Media Museum this shipsvideo the Science Museum site for almost half year gave online access to another our audience using portable devices. 25,000 historic images which include And the Great Gathering of Mallard and many by Julia Margaret Cameron – one the other A4s gave the NRM’s website such is shown opposite. its busiest day ever on the anniversary of her world record run. The Group is developing the role of digital apps, our flagship being Journeys Our increased use of social media, of Invention, which explores our own which included Twitter, Facebook and unique collections [see page 11]. Within Tumblr, led one independent study to its first two months, 250,000 people – give the National Media Museum and many in China – went on that tour. Another Science Museum second and third places app was 1000 Hands, which invited out of 50 national visitor attractions. the public to populate a Universal The Group relied on social media, rather Everything multimedia installation in than a media partner, to drive a public the Science Museum. Online games vote on the most important innovation continue to be popular: the Axon game Clockwise: Screen-grab from the stunning video of the shipping from the past 100 years and received was created for Brains, the Wellcome galleries scanned in 3D at the Science Museum… One dad’s a significantly greater response than Collection exhibition, and another for tweet following a family visit to The Energy Show… A classic photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, part of the Royal a comparable poll run by a national Hooked on Music! at the Museum of Photographic Society Collection newly digitised by the National TV channel. It proved that discussion Science & Industry, Manchester, an Media Museum… Felix Driver, Professor of Geography at Royal between the public and leading innovative citizen-science project which Holloway, and Tim Boon, our Head of Research and Public History, browse the online Science Museum Group Journal… scientists, promoted by Twitter, investigates the secret of catchy songs, Screen-grab of the Axon game developed by the Wellcome is a phenomenal digital asset. with the University of Amsterdam. Collection for its Brains exhibition

48 49 TLC FOR HOOKED FAMED ON CITIZEN TUNING COIL SCIENCE

his magnificent wood, copper and he highlight of the Museum of string assembly is the Rugby Science & Industry’s cultural T tuning coil that was test built at T programme is the Manchester Wroughton, the Science Museum’s Science Festival, which in its seventh Wiltshire store, before its early year consisted of 150 events across installation in the new Information the city to inspire all ages, from flash- Age gallery at the Museum. It is one bang demonstrations to simulated among hundreds of extraordinary brain surgery. Science Festival highlights: Immersive large objects in our collections which audio at our Manchester Museum’s first demand customised storage conditions Lates event, Dark Matters… Kylie Minogue, Hooked on Music, an ambitious Citizen and conservation. Those demands whose lyrics proved scientifically catchy… Science project to explore what makes Visitors try their hand at brain surgery can be encapsulated in two recent following a dramatic simulation by music catchy, launched a programme of challenges dealt with by the team, who Professor Roger Kneebone’s team… Helen festival events, directed by Dr Marieke cleared a storage space for the Tornado Storey beside her Eye and I installation Navin. It’s the largest mass-participation jet decanted from the Museum of experiment of its kind, launched by a Science & Industry and disassembled poll and 700 festival goers revealed that it on site; and conserved a PET scanner ‘I Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ by Kylie for exhibition in the Science Museum’s Minogue was the catchiest tune of all – a Mind Maps. finding that earned a tweet from the pop diva herself. At NRM York Conservator Stathis Tsolis Above: Conservation for the forthcoming is especially pleased with a unique Information Age gallery at the Science Museum: Actress Lily Cole, TV presenter Carol new technology called Eyemat – a floor The aerial tuning inductor from Rugby radio Vorderman and Science Minister covering being laid in restored railway station, 1943–66... an antique telephone David Willetts were among those who carriages to protect existing floors Right: Decommissioned Tornado fighter aircraft nominated their most memorable tunes. from wear by visitors. The vinyl surface arrives for storage at Wroughton… And below, at The project was supported by Wellcome carries a photographic image of the NRM York, Stathis Tsolis fits the new Eyemat floor Trust Engagement Fellow Dr Erinma covering in the Pullman car, Topaz original fabric beneath it. Elsewhere at Ochu and created with computational York the Borough Junction signal box musicologist John Ashley Burgoyne has been fully restored. and his teams at the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht. Among its more curious conservation tasks, our Blythe House team needed Elsewhere in the festival, artist Helen to make safe hazardous objects Storey explored the science of emotion, such as a Second World War self while innovative architecture was detonating fire extinguisher. An unusual showcased in Ice Lab: New Architecture Conservation challenge came when the and Science in Antarctica, organised by Collider exhibition required contractor the British Council and curated by The assistance to cut away a section of Arts Catalyst. casing on a major object loaned from CERN. This enabled visitors to see inside The festival has received long-term the device for bunching a proton beam. support from Siemens who were 2013’s Outdoors at Blythe, last summer saw headline sponsor. Major sponsors the first testing of the Denman Horn included Waters Corporation, Electricity after painstaking reconstruction of the North West and the University of Salford. 27-foot loudspeaker by the Workshops To underline the impact of the festival, team at the Science Museum, where it it won the 2013 Manchester Tourism went on display in an art installation. Award for best large tourism event.

50 51 at the Museum of Science & Industry, supported our Tracking the Past project Manchester, and on the historical to preserve the remaining archives of significance of James Watt’s workshop Sierra Leone’s railways, which played Your new online Journal by Science Museum curator Ben a controversial role in the development is a marvellous addition NEW KUDOS Russell. At the Yale Center for British of that nation. to accessible, well-informed Art, Connecticut, Dr Florence Grant history of science debate FOR OUR took a detailed look at the use of http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk printed books by 18th-century LISA JARDINE instrument-makers. Opposite: Ludmilla Jordonova and Kate Steiner PROFESSOR OF RENAISSANCE STUDIES AT UCL explore the new Science Museum Group Journal SCHOLARS at its launch… ‘Canterbury Locomotion Engine’, As a music history event connecting 1830, part of the National Railway Museum’s newly with Science Museum collections, honoured Robert Stephenson Archives… James The Public History Research Kraftwerk Uncovered (played by the Watt’s workshop displayed at the Science Museum, and the subject of a Journal article by Ben Russell programme is rebuilding band Icebreaker) offered insights into the Group’s reputation the electronic band’s contribution to Below: Kraftwerk Uncovered, a music history event music, alongside talks by David Toop by Icebreaker… The Sierra Leone endangered archive which the NRM has helped preserve by cherishing excellence and Richard Witts on music, and aligning us with the technology and culture. global academic community The National Railways Museum’s research collaboration with the National Archives included a joint he Group’s extraordinary and conference, Railways Change Lives; diverse collection of 7.3 million and a seminar on the history of T objects is an open invitation for ambulance trains as a flagship event serious scholarship and, with that in for the national Explore Your Archives mind, we now publish a peer-reviewed campaign. The NRM’s precious Robert e-journal. Enthusiastically backed by Stephenson Archives were awarded the distinguished historian and Trustee United Nations status in the Memory Ludmilla Jordanova, published of the World Register as the unique biannually and edited by Kate Steiner, documentary record of how the UK the Science Museum Group Journal gave railways to the world from publishes research linked with our 1823. Funds from the British Library collections and concerns in the history and communication of science, and its role in museums.

In the spirit of openness that comes with the best scholarship, the content of the digital Journal is freely available. Director Ian Blatchford said the Journal demonstrates the Group’s determination to engage the academic community with our distinguished collections. ‘Research is on the rise within the Science Museum Group. At a time when scholarship seems under threat, we are strengthening our commitment to a deeper understanding of our world-class collections, conservation challenges and the most successful ways of engaging the wider public with the history of science and the technological and scientific challenges facing modern society.’

The inaugural issue included new research on William Bally’s set of phrenological heads by Dr Alice Cliff, CONTINUED Curator of Science and Technology

52 53 NEW KUDOS FOR OUR SCHOLARS he Science Museum is to create a projects depend on collaborations, new research centre at its South such as the National Media Museum’s T Kensington site to provide an with the Getty Research Institute in international environment for academic Los Angeles, while an Art Fund grant research and forge a more intimate facilitates research into pioneering connection between the Museum’s British colour photography. objects and its library and archive collections. The centre was the logical Visitors to the research centre will have next step after the establishment access to a curated core collection of of the Research and Public History heavily used academic and popular department, led by Tim Boon, and books and journals. This will be underlines the long-term commitment constantly refreshed with material on the part of the Group to foster from the Museum’s collections in serious research. Wroughton. A new digital library management system will give visitors The research centre, which replaces access to the catalogues, the library’s the library on the Imperial College e-books, e-journals, databases and London campus, opens in the autumn web pages as well as to the Museum’s of 2015 to offer a contemporary and collections and image databases and light-filled environment with a quiet other valuable resources, such as the reading area, open shelving for printed recently digitised Babbage Archive. This page from top, doctoral researchers: material and research offices. Noeme Santana who is studying the Science The new centre will also provide a Museum engineering collection… Thomas The Group’s renewed focus on research natural home for seminars, such as Spain, researching food miles at NRM York… Ceri Pitches observing a Key Stage 2 talk has already seen the appointment of Return of Biography: Reassessing Life about television production at the National 16 collaborative doctoral students Stories, held at the Science Museum in Media Museum supported by the AHRC and several July 2013 and attended by distinguished Centre: Visualisation by Coffey Architects for funded research projects into the figures such as Georgina Ferry, author the Science Museum’s new research centre history of science and technology. of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (1998); Opposite: California’s Getty Research The study topics are diverse, from Andrew Nahum, Senior Keeper at the Institute continues its analysis of the National the mapping of Africa, to the use of Science Museum and author of Frank Photography Collection at Bradford’s National theatrical techniques in museums, to Whittle: Invention of the Jet (2005); and Media Museum… Author Georgina Ferry talking at the Return of Biography seminar the history of Liverpool Road Station Janet Vertesi of Princeton University, on the architecturally important site author of a study on the Mars rover of our Museum in Manchester. Many exploration missions.

54 55 PROWESS OF OUR VOLUNTEERS

Group-wide strategy has rolled out a Volunteer Managers training A course to raise standards of recruitment and to clarify the motives that attract volunteers at different life stages to the many varied tasks our Museums can offer. In these challenging economic times with reductions in our public funding, this support will continue to be critical. Volunteers can choose from supporting discussion events, printing, cataloguing, customer This year, the Science Museum’s team service, cleaning and conservation swelled to reach 200, with notable of vehicles in the collection, opening growth at Blythe House in the photo up locomotive cabs for visitors, running studio. In London the typical volunteer the green-screen photo studio and all may be a student living away from kinds of stewarding. home, juggling the competing social priorities of the young. Contrast this with the National Railway Museum where many of the 440 volunteers at York and Shildon are retired railway personnel who wish to tap into a lifetime of skills and generally have more time to give. Some serve for 20 to 30 years and indeed this year Robert Tibbits, who volunteered at NRM on the day it was opened by Prince Philip in 1975, was awarded the British Empire Medal for his services.

It was an exceptional year for NRM. Over the summer, 100 of its 360-strong team in York provided 5000 hours of support at the Mallard 75 event. Manchester Science Festival. At the Our volunteers, clockwise from top: NRM veteran Robert Tibbits… Cataloguing in the Gandolfi Room Cab access for 44,000 people was National Media Museum Mandy Tennant at the National Media Museum… Stephen Wetherill made possible by 70 volunteers manages 56 registered volunteers, on orientation duty at our Museum in Manchester… Christina Kamposiori in the Collections during the busiest fortnight in the involved mainly in either cataloguing Information archive and Christian Dollimore Museum’s history. important collections, or stewarding at as tour guide at the Science Museum Bradford’s film festivals. Opposite: Delroy Joseph, who won a London The Museum of Science & Industry Volunteers in Museums Award, with Sally is delivering the HLF-funded If: York’s Volunteer Officer Matthew Munday-Webb, Volunteer Co-ordinator Volunteering for Wellbeing, a three- Hick has provided much insight on year volunteer training and placement this subject and edits the magazine programme which targets socially Volunteer News on the NRM website. isolated Manchester residents. The He has placed a value on the Group’s Museum also has 136 volunteers 823 volunteers. If they were paid the who support key programmes such UK minimum wage, their 95,000 hours’ as conservation, train rides and the effort would be worth £600,000!

56 57 A NEW DAWN FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

As one of our most significant benefactors, film producer Michael G Wilson has been elected a Science Museum Fellow for tirelessly promoting our superb image collections

nown to the world as a producer because they changed the way we look work from ageing photographers, of James Bond films, Michael G at the world’. All the more shocking, he giving them royalties and preserving K Wilson is also an impassioned thinks, is the British tradition – since the work. Cultivating collectors and champion of photography as a John Ruskin – to dismiss photography persuading them to donate requires technology that has brought unique as a serious art form. ‘Considering entrepreneurial curators, who are rare cultural change. He has put SMG Britain is where photography was born in Britain. But things are changing.’ Museums in the vanguard of a greater in 1839, you’d have thought there’d acceptance of the medium among be keener interest among curators Left: Michael G Wilson, benefactor and newly elected Fellow. British collectors and curators. and collectors but there isn’t. Until Without his energetic fundraising, the recently the UK has had few spaces Stars of this year’s photographic events across the Group, clockwise from top: ‘The Princess new Media Space gallery would not offering the necessary conditions to Royal and Princess Alice’, a 19th-century have opened as the London showcase display photographs.’ image by Roger Fenton (Royal Photographic for the National Media Museum. Every Society Collection)… ‘Caught in a Web of Iron’ by David Cation from the Lines in the Landscape Museum in the Group has benefited Yet in the past decade two leading competition at NRM York, sponsored by Network from his great personal qualities, and British museums have appointed Rail... Magnum photographers David Hurn, for this reason he has been elected a curators of photography, so what has Jonas Bendiksen, Mark Power and Stuart Franklin giving a masterclass in the vault at Fellow of the Science Museum. forced attitudes to change? ‘The world the National Media Museum... and a few people like me harping on Along with writing and printing, Wilson at the directors of museums!’ he says ‘Nerve fibres in a healthy adult human brain’ by Zeynep M Saygin in the exhibition, Wellcome regards the earliest photographs unabashed. ‘Following Tony Ray-Jones, Image Awards 2014, partnered with the Museum as ‘revolutionary to human thought Britain spawned a fantastic group of of Science & Industry… Circular snapshot of photographers and some very good market girls commemorating 125th anniversary of the commercial Kodak No 1 camera dealers. We just don’t have very many collectors. We need to build up our community of serious collectors because it takes hundreds to make a difference.’

As for enhancing the pioneering collection at Bradford, where acquiring the Royal Photographic Society archive elevated our collection to being one of the most important in the world, Wilson says: ‘It is nearly impossible to build a contemporary photography collection without any money. At Bradford we have been acquiring estates and bodies of

58 59 which produces limited editions of iconic for formal dinners, the Flight gallery locomotives, also yielded £100,000 for in London, Revolution Manchester, two reinvestment in NRM Shildon. ‘Overall, magnificent halls in York and many other ENTERPRISES it’s a real success story,’ said Director fascinating gallery spaces. Paul Kirkman. As well as retailing updated souvenir ARE F-A-B New simulator rides have been rolled guides, watches and best-selling Mallard out: Stephen Hawking’s family enjoyed books, the Group boasts an Inventor the new Mallard experience in York; in in Residence, Mark Champkins, to Serious exhibitions for adult London, unique Typhoon video footage create new products. He challenged audiences, plus unique family added to our white-knuckle rides; and young people to overcome a common attractions, are generating visitors can play with special effects summer problem. Sophia Laycock, aged in the new green-screen photography 11, designed the Pediclean to remove much-needed revenues studio. The IMAX theatre in the Science seaside sand from your feet and won a Museum screened three new 3D films, MakerBot Desktop 3D printer. You can taking visitors to Mars and beyond. buy one in our shop for £1700. ecessity is indeed the mother of Meanwhile the projectionists have invention: the Group’s commercial retrained as stage technicians so N wing has reported impressive that the IMAX can receive theatrical The IMAX theatre profits to help offset the relentless productions such as The Energy Show. decline in Government funding. ‘This has seen a resurgence has been the all-time record year Two London ventures aimed at with superior space for Enterprises,’ said Sam Mason, independent adults have helped exploration films but also Commercial Director. ‘We were maximise returns. As the Science live stage shows £500,000 up on expectations and saw a Museum’s first major ticketed significant growth in turnover.’ exhibitions in years, Collider and Only SAM MASON SMG COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR In England encouraged Enterprises to This year the National Railway Museum start developing high-end adult gifts. Above right: The new licensed servery-style Dining Car restaurant in Station Hall at the sites in York and Shildon proved Mason said: ‘We’re also expecting to National Railway Museum, York… Winner of the irresistible for 364,000 visitors, drawn take £500,000 from the licensed Media summer invention competition in the 3D printing exhibition Sophia Laycock pictured with her to the Great Gathering of beautiful A4 Space café. Never underestimate the Pediclean and prize printer… The 00-gauge Deltic locomotives. Mason said: ‘It was free appetite out there for brain food.’ in late East Coast livery from Locomotion Models but the 30% rise in visitor numbers sold 1000 pieces within three weeks of launch led to a huge surge in spending in our Reputation by association has put SMG Below: Typhoon display pilot Jamie Norris and shops and restaurants – which we in the UK’s top ten venues for corporate Wing Commander Graham Pemberton at Fly Zone, have refurbished across the Group. event hire and this year’s 600 bookings Science Museum… Tom Smith and Paul Williams of the retrained team at the IMAX, Science This was not just a boost for us but the yielded £1 million profit. Our Museums Museum… The newly refurbished shop at the local economies.’ Locomotion Models, offer two IMAX auditoria for AGMs or, Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester

60 61 SCIENCE MUSEUM LONDON RECENT ACQUISITIONS Copper cavity made by CERN in Geneva, LANDMARKS Switzerland, 1988–89. Radio-frequency Hadrian Ellory-van Dekker, Head of cavity used in the Large Electron Positron accelerator, acquired for the Collections at the Science Museum, Collider exhibition IN INGENUITY on the tricky task of collecting eRanger ambulance based on motorbike and sidecar, South Africa, 2000–09. Transported expectant mothers to hospitals in Sierra Leone, Liberia, southern Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda

Kit Yamoyos anti-diarrhoea kits by Colalife, 2012. Medication, rehydration salts and toiletries taken to remote areas in a charity initiative piggybacking on the Coca-Cola supply chain

Penicillin wooden chest, c. 1939, used by Major Scott Thomson, RAMC. Believed to have transported the vital penicillin supplies to north Africa during the Second World War

Zener cards: ESP cards for testing extrasensory perception, USA, 1937. Coxon propeller, 2005–06. Prototype Named after their inventor, American self-pitching three-blade carbon-fibre psychologist Karl Zener cyclic-pitch propeller, designed and made by John Coxon, Pulborough, West ‘First’ smartphone: Simon Mobile Sussex, England Communicator, by IBM with BellSouth, 1995. Ultimately a commercial Automaton writing, 1825–35. Pen- failure, it was the first device to bring and-ink automatic writing on an oval together many key components of the sheet of paper, by an automaton, smartphone the ‘Draughtsman-Writer’ by Henri Maillardet, Europe

Bierrum International Ltd contracts archive, c. 1927–80. A company involved in the design and construction of the majority of chimneys and cooling towers built in the UK

Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 microcomputer system, made in USA, 1977, by Radio Shack Corporation. One of the first truly successful mass- produced personal computers

Opposite: Hexrotor surveillance drone, 2009, acquired by the Museum of Science & Industry We museum curators are constantly a national collection of international judgement. They bear witness to aware of our predecessors and, more and lasting significance is even more our continued commitment to create This page: Copper cavity from CERN and the viscerally, those who will follow daunting. On the next four pages, we the world’s foremost assemblage eRanger ambulance and, with the comfortable luxury of have made a small selection of items of the material culture of science hindsight, pass informed judgments added to our collections this year. and technology – a snapshot capturing on the decisions we made. Building Great acquisitions are often the result the seemingly infinite variety of CONTINUED a collection is not easy. Developing of serendipity as much as informed human ingenuity

62 63 LANDMARKS IN INGENUITY: MORE RECENT ACQUISITIONS

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM MANCHESTER YORK

Hexrotor surveillance drone, 2009. Railway-inspired child’s bed set Developed by the University of made for Christopher Oldham in 1934. Manchester, representing innovations Includes a bed in the style of a railway in aerospace and military and law carriage and a steam engine dressing enforcement technologies. Previously table exhibited in Antenna at the Science Museum London & South Western Railway dining car no. 72, 1907. Acquired to Photographic prints, c. 1900–20. house the NRM’s First World War Photographs taken at the premises exhibition, and to be partially restored of John A Wood Ltd, Harpurhey, as an ambulance carriage Greater Manchester, showing workers operating textile machinery including British Railways poster, 1962, Jacquard looms forbidding ‘boys’ from ‘engine spotting’ at Birmingham New Street station. An Hosiery sewing machine, c. 1952. early example of trainspotting being Used by an Altrincham woman who banned on safety grounds successfully combined her home repair business and her family life. Having Publicity material from the pressure nylon stockings repaired presents a group Bring Back British Rail, 2013, contrast to today’s throwaway culture campaigning for the re-nationalisation of Britain’s railways NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Props and costumes, c. 2003–13, from BRADFORD the Channel 4 TV series Shameless, Plate from the London & North Eastern filmed in Manchester and exported Railway locomotive Hush-Hush, 1928. The fight between James J Corbett globally. They represent both the Saved by an apprentice and probably and Bob Fitzsimmons, 1897. Strip creative industries and popular the only surviving part of the engine’s of widescreen film containing five perceptions of post-industrial society experimental boiler frames of cinema’s first feature-length documentary Child’s hire bicycle, c. 1996. From the National Cycling Centre SABA Jim Nature, 1994. This television (Manchester Velodrome), receiver was designed by the famous representing Manchester’s and innovative French designer continuing role as the home Philippe Starck with biodegradable and of British cycling, inspiring recycled materials future generations of competition cyclists Video Traveller portable VHS video player, 2002. An early in-car video entertainment system – fitted with mains and car adapters – that often kept little ones occupied on long trips

Martin Parr, The Non-Conformists, 2013. Series of 77 prints from Hebden Bridge and the Calder Valley created by Martin Parr’s studio for the Only in England exhibition, 2013

‘Talkback in Nicam’ system developed by TV-am, 1993. Live outside broadcasts required a speech channel Left: Hosiery sewing machine to convey the director’s talkback from Above: L&SW dining car from 1907 and BR studio to location poster from 1962 Right: A widescreen cinema first

64 65 FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS We have also been successful in finding other new sources of funding, one of which is a new DCMS loans GROUP FINANCIAL SUMMARY 2013–14 FINANCIAL programme. This is a pilot scheme whereby the Treasury has made funds available to DCMS for its leading The Science Museum Group is more indebted £3 million, an increase of 8% on the previous : sponsored Arm’s Length Bodies, who than ever to the generous sponsors, trusts, year. Furthermore, we generated £500,000 OVERVIEW 5.10 Income in 2013–14 (£m) have been invited to submit a business foundations, individuals and other supporters from our ticketed exhibitions Collider and 0.70 42.20 Grant in aid whose contributions helped our Museums Only in England, exceeding forecast by 40%. case to borrow money for capital Trading income to deliver a wide range of programmes, projects at very competitive rates. The 13.80 REASONS TO from major capital projects and innovative The Group’s success in generating Grants, donations and sponsorship scheme is designed to provide funding contemporary science displays to our work with commercial income together with the that will allow our Museums to invest schools and popular late-night openings. generosity of our supporters has enabled us Rental income BE CHEERFUL in income-generating activity for which to continue to balance our budgets without Other income fundraising might otherwise prove Income from visitor donations exceeded £2 compromising on either visitor experience million – an increase of 29% compared with difficult. SMG has been successful with or the care of our collections. However, our the previous year. In these difficult economic public funding continues to fall and this has 17.10 Jonathan Newby, right, two applications which together total times this support is more critical than ever. necessitated a continued focus on cost- SMG Chief Operating Officer, about £7.8 million. Without it we would struggle to achieve the reduction strategies across our Museums, assesses a buoyant year extraordinary range and depth of activities our including a reduction in staff numbers. The cumulative effect of this surge Museums continue to deliver. 2.2 Expenditure for revenues As a Group we continue to become more 8.5 in 2013–14 (£m) of activity has been to lessen SMG’s Our Government grant has again fallen this focused, leaner and more efficient, but if 14.7 Costs of generating dependence on Grant in Aid through year – a reduction of 3% compared with 2012–13 public funding continues to fall and economic voluntary income identifying increasingly innovative ways – and the years ahead are likely to become ever uncertainty persists we will have to review 0.5 Trading costs to drive new income; this has become more challenging. the scale and range of our operations. Care for and research into collections he gradual and ongoing reduction cases we have had to rearrange some Even in the most difficult of circumstances, 9.2 something of a theme over recent In order to meet the continuing reductions in however, we will endeavour to ensure as Science education in the Science Museum Group’s of the furniture to ease visitor flow and years, embodying the Group’s ethos our Government grant and fund our ambitions many people as possible can enjoy our and communication core funding serves only to ignite to make the whole process smoother of being entrepreneurial, extrovert for the future we have placed a strategic remarkable collections. Visitor services T 15.0 our imagination and fuel our energy and less intrusive, but the level of and efficient. focus on income generation. Self-generated Governance costs at finding new ways to raise much- support from our visitors has been income represented 47% of total incoming These figures are extracted from draft 21.9 Capital expenditure resources this year, compared with 40% last financial statements. The full Annual Report including collection needed funds. We have made sure overwhelming. And, our success in this year – testament to the success of this strategy. and Accounts is available on our website: additions that SCMG Enterprises – our core area has led to another burgeoning Profit from our commercial activities exceeded sciencemuseum.org.uk/group businesses of shops and cafés – are business model – providing consultancy as effective as possible, whilst at the on the ‘science of asking’ to colleagues same time looking for new and in other heritage organisations across different ways of driving value from the UK and further afield. all our Museums’ endeavours.

Income from commercial trading has SMG VISIT NUMBERS 2013–14 increased steadily over the last seven years, with the overall contribution to the Group from our Enterprises Total number of visits to the Museums Science Museum of National NRM National All Science businesses standing at a record £3.2 Museum Science & Railway Shildon Media Museum million. Particular highlights from Industry Museum Museum Group 2013–14 included a boost to our retail Outturn 2012–13 3,084,000 642,000 727,000 203,000 493,000 5,149,000 sales in support of the Great Gathering Outturn 2013–14 3,342,000 669,000 926,000 296,000 479,000 5,712,000** at the National Railway Museum, catering sales at all sites exceeding expectations, and it has been another Visits in education groups Science Museum of National NRM National All Science excellent year from the Events team, Museum Science & Railway Shildon Media Museum Industry Museum Museum Group who found new ways to offer our five amazing and unique venues for Outturn 2012–13 400,000 64,000 40,000 * * * corporate hire. Outturn 2013–14 442,000 54,000 39,000 28,000 26,000 590,000**

Proactively asking visitors for a donation Information is sourced through both internal and periodic independent visitor surveys. on their way into our Museums has * Methodology in recording visits in education groups was changed to align with the rest of the Group. It is not appropriate to compare year on year. proved as successful as it is simple ** Any anomalies in totals are due to roundings.

and SMG now leads the sector in this A YEAR FOR BREAKING RECORDS way. Our dedicated Visitor Giving teams A record 5,712,000 visitors came to our Museums over the past year, an increase of almost 11% on the previous year. raised more than £2 million last year Our digital audience is growing at an even faster rate, with visits to SMG websites up 29% at 26,460,000. with donations at our Museums in Visits to the Science Museum totalled 3,342,000, which broke all previous records. Annual visit numbers for the National Railway Museum reached 926,000, up more than 25% on the previous year. London, York, Shildon and Manchester NRM Shildon welcomed 120,000 visits over the course of only eight days for the Great Goodbye. proving particularly strong. In some To infinity and beyond: Fly Zone’s new green-screen photo studio at the Science Museum The Science Museum welcomed a record-breaking 442,000 visitors in education groups, of which 341,000 were school pupils.

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With many thanks to all our visitors who have kindly made a donation to support the work of the Science Museum Group

STFC (Science & Technology National Railway Museum, National Media Museum National Railway Phil and Caroline Dick Lane SPONSORS AND DONORS Facilities Council) York and Shildon The Boris Karloff Charitable CORPORATE MEMBERS PATRONS Museum Swallow Derek Langslow TSB (Technology Strategy Board) Arts Council England Foundation Scotsman Circle Joe Tonks Peter J C Mosse FRSA Science Museum Science Museum Science Museum Rosemary Wheeler David J P Nevell The University of Nottingham Peter Baldwin Bradford College Ian Macbeth John Woodhouse Raymond Price Accenture The Vandervell Foundation The Basil Samuel Charitable Trust British Film Institute Edison Elite Newton Circle Mr Harry Medcalf Access Industries Mark Wales British Library BP Neil Millington Rocket Circle Ian Robinson City of Bradford Metropolitan The David and Claudia Harding Advanced Oncotherapy plc Wellcome Trust Cedar Court Grand Hotel and Spa William N Smith William R Adam Andrew Scott District Council Lovelace Laureates Foundation Michael and Jane Wilson Crab Manor Hotel Francis Townend Ian K Clatworthy Stately Trains AHRC (Arts and Humanities Airbus Group Michael and Jane Wilson Winton Capital Management Mary Marjorie Downham Creative England Dean Welbourn Research Council) GlaxoSmithKline Duchess Circle Cryptair Ltd The Wolfson Foundation David Drury Galileo Circle Connor Egan Airbus Group The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Shell International M R Darbyshire The de Laszlo Foundation The Flour Mill ARM Thank you to all of our exhibition The Earl of Harewood’s Foundation Siemens plc Richard Hill Steve Mobbs and Pauline Thomas Mr Rod Giddins Bank of America Merrill Lynch visitors Charitable Trust Dana and Albert R Broccoli Archimedes Alliance Alan E Moore Mr Lawrence Staden Peter Gummer Bayer All those who wish to remain East Coast Foundation Bank of America Merrill Lynch Wick Moorman Einstein Circle BG Group anonymous Eurostar International Ltd Bloomberg Embassy of the United States Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE Biogen Idec Foundation All those who have supported the Eversholt Rail Ltd of America Citadel Blavatnik Family Foundation Rentokil Initial plc Dr Sara Levene HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT US Science Museum through a bequest Exporail – Le Musée Ferroviaire Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund Bonita Trust Sean Phelan and Audrey Mandela in their will Canadien Europa Cinema Faraday Fellowship Clive Richards OBE DL We are a charitable group of museums and support from our visitors and BP Barclays friends is essential. We are grateful to all our supporters over the past FirstGroup plc The Great Britain Sasakawa Brunel Circle The British Psychological Society Bayer year and every donation has great value to us in funding our work. If you Museum of Science & Industry First TransPennine Express Foundation UK Toby Anstruther BT CMS Cameron McKenna LLP would like to make a donation, to any of the Museums, please phone Iain Bratchie Cambridge Wireless Alstom UK Friends of the National Railway Italian Cultural Institute Smiths Group 020 7942 4081 or e-mail [email protected] Champagne BOLLINGER Museum David Buck AstraZeneca JCT600 Ltd Curie Circle The City Bridge Trust The John Kobal Foundation Dr Ann Coxon Electricity North West Ltd Ginetta Cars Ltd Mathys & Squire LLP The de Laszlo Foundation Jurys Inn The Ernest Cook Trust Great Northern Hotel ReAgent Mr Andrew Eland and The Estate of Ken Andrews Laser Hotline Dr Pascale Hazel Embassy of Switzerland in the Heritage Lottery Fund Yorkshire Real Time Club BECOME A PATRON OF OUR MUSEUMS Leeds Metropolitan University United Kingdom The Granada Foundation Hornby plc Tranter Lowe John and Elaine Elkington Manchester City Council Una Jackson Media Servicing Ltd Each year we need your help and support in order to inspire the next EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Wire: Broadcast Ltd Simon Godwin generation of scientists and engineers, to create ambitious exhibition and The Midland Hotel Manchester Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Schofield Sweeney Solicitors Sciences Research Council) Alexander and Ika Green learning programmes, and to protect our world-class collections. People’s Postcode Lottery Christopher King Split Infinitive Trust Mr and Mrs Andrew Griffith The Eranda Foundation Piccadilly Live Stephen Middleton Universal Live National Railway Museum Patronage is a hugely important way of supporting the work of Andrew Jackson our Museums with an annual gift and we currently have a Patrons ESRC (Economic and Social Siemens plc Network Rail University of Bradford Platinum Bridget and David Jacob programme at both the Science Museum and National Railway Museum. Research Council) STFC (Science & Technology The Noel Goddard Terry Virgin Media Atlantic Container Line Renato Lulia Jacob In return for your gift, we offer all of our Patrons a range of tailored The ExPat Foundation Facilities Council) Charitable Trust Yorkshire Building Society Moveright International Ltd Fiona Kumar Bhardwaj benefits to thank you for your support. Fidelity UK Foundation United Utilities North Bay Railway With many thanks to all NMeM Rail Media Group George and Angela Loudon Our Patrons enjoy special access to our collections and a programme Friends of the National Libraries University of Salford North Yorkshire Moors Railway Members Gold Alan and Virginia Lovell of exclusive events, including behind-the-scenes tours, invitations to exhibition openings, and talks by renowned scientists, our expert The Garfield Weston Foundation Waters Corporation NSARE All those who wish to remain East Coast Dr Peter J Morris GlaxoSmithKline Alexandra Papadakis curators and industry leaders. Wellcome Trust Christopher Oldham anonymous Friends of the National Railway Global Mobile Commerce Forum The Zochonis Charitable Trust Guy Reid If you are interested in finding out more about becoming a Patron, Google The Patricia & Donald Shepherd Museum Dr Neil Reid including the benefits we offer, please do speak to us. All those who have supported MOSI Charitable Trust The Gosling Foundation West Coast Railways Dr Martin Schoernig At the Science Museum please contact the Development team through a bequest in their will Haier Porterbrook Silver Ian and Helen Simm on 020 7942 4034 or e-mail [email protected] Heritage Lottery Fund All those who wish to remain Railway & Canal History Society Angel Trains Ltd Lord and Lady Waldegrave At the National Railway Museum please contact the Development team Hyundai Motor UK Ltd anonymous Railway Industry Association Bachmann Industries Europe plc of North Hill on 01904 685774 or e-mail [email protected] Institution of Electrical Engineers Ian Robinson Bronze Shepherd Group Gregg Wilson The Institution of Engineering Abellio Group Siemens Transportation Systems Ltd and Technology Keolis Sir James Knott Trust Omnicom Engineering Ltd WHERE FUNDS COME FROM Johnson Matthey plc Francis Townend The Keniston-Cooper Charitable Trust Virgin Trains Community Fundraising at the Science Museum Group is based on developing The Kusuma Trust UK Caldo Oils long-lasting and mutually beneficial relationships with all our funders. Thank you to all those supporters Life Technologies Northern Rail We view supporters as investors in our ambitions and values and we of our rich exhibition and gallery REPTA hold varied events to grow their interest in our Museums. The Lord Leonard Wolfson and Lady programme, including the Mallard T & R Williamsons Ltd Estelle Wolfson Foundation 75 celebration Individual donors play a significant role at SMG. They recognise the importance of inspiring the next generation and the unique role we MasterCard All those who have supported the play in achieving this. Motorola Solutions Foundation NRM through a bequest in their will National Media Museum MRC (Medical Research Council) Our Corporate sponsors Dimbleby support us across a range of galleries and National Funding Scheme All those who wish to remain Science Museum Foundation Trustees Freemans Grattan Holdings exhibitions and in return we offer a bespoke range of tangible benefits National Instruments anonymous Schofield Sweeney Solicitors to meet their needs. The Ogden Trust Donald H Brydon CBE Grants from private trusts, foundations and Government help SMG People’s Postcode Lottery Cerf The Rt Hon. Lord Rees of Ludlow to share learning expertise. Many grant-giving bodies are experts in Qualcomm Aagrah Group Mr Howard Covington education, heritage or wider public engagement and the benefits are Renishaw Bradford College Sir Martin G Smith KBE usually mutual. ShareGift Last Cawthra Feather Ms Edwina Dunn Visitor giving Shell International Universal Live has made a huge difference to our revenue and we are Michael G Wilson OBE Siemens plc delighted to report that the past year alone we have raised more than Michael A Hoffman SITA Trust £2 million in donations.

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SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP OBJECTIVES BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OUR DISTINGUISHED ADVISERS Director: Ian Blatchford SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP Science Museum The Science Museum Group (SMG) is devoted Science Museum Advisory Board to the history and contemporary practice of The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Exhibition Road science, medicine, technology, industry and media is responsible for the whole of the Science Chair: Dr Gill Samuels CBE (Trustee) London SW7 2DD throughout which the common bond is human Museum Group. The Trustees, who may number Ms Jane Atkinson www.sciencemuseum.org.uk ingenuity. Our collections form an enduring record between 12 and 20, are appointed by and are Dr Sarah Caddick of scientific, technological and medical change responsible to the Prime Minister through DCMS. Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE (Trustee) since the 18th century. SMG incorporates the The Director of SMG, as Chief Executive Officer, Dr Marcus du Sautoy Science Museum, the Science Museum Library is responsible to the Board of Trustees, and as Mr Malcolm Garrett OBJECTIVES and the Wellcome Museum of the History of Accounting Officer is accountable to DCMS for Dr Lucie Green Medicine in South Kensington; the Museum of compliance with the Management Statement and Sir Tim Hunt Science & Industry in Manchester; the National Financial Memorandum. Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (Trustee), until The Science Museum’s mission is to Railway Museum in York and Shildon; and the September 2013 make sense of the science that shapes National Media Museum in Bradford. Our two Chairman Ms Clare Matterson, until April 2013 our lives. This commitment drives major collections stores are located at Wroughton Dr Douglas Gurr Professor Michael J Reiss everything we do. Through our world- in W and Blythe House in West Kensington. Professor Simon J Schaffer Members Professor Molly Stevens, from November 2013 class collections of historic objects, Our strategic objectives across SMG are to aspire Lady Chisholm Professor Helen Storey MBE, from November 2013 galleries, interactive experiences and to the highest international museum standards Mr Howard Covington our learning programmes we aim to in the care and preservation of collections, Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE Museum of Science & Industry Advisory Board be the leading international museum scholarship, programming, learning and advocacy Lord Faulkner of Worcester for our subject areas; strengthen our core Mr Andreas J Goss Chairman: Mr James Smith CBE (Trustee) championing the understanding, narratives and deliver dynamic gallery displays; Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE Professor Colin Bailey enjoyment and prestige of science in implement clear audience strategies that focus Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Dr Maria Balshaw modern society. Last year we set out on providing life-enhancing experiences; extend Mr Simon Linnett Mr Michael Emmerich our reach nationally and internationally; make Professor Averil Macdonald Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Trustee and Observer) our Strategic Ambitions for the next optimum use of our estate; be an organisation Professor Sir Howard Newby CBE Mr Peter Fell (Vice-Chair until February 2014) decade, including a commitment to that is extrovert, entrepreneurial, efficient and Dr Gill Samuels CBE Mr Steve Johnson focus on the urgent choices faced by dedicated to the development of great people. Mr James Smith CBE Sir Richard Leese CBE society and the fundamental science Mr Christopher Swinson OBE Dr Erinma Ochu, from March 2014 THE CHARITY Mr Peter Fell (Special Adviser), until January 2014 Mr Robert Owen MBE, until February 2014 and technology that underpin them. Ms Sinead Rocks The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum New Fellows of the Science Museum (FScM) Dr Gill Samuels CBE (Trustee) AUDIENCES was established under the National Heritage Act Ms Susan Woodward OBE 1983. SMG is an exempt charity under the Second Peter Higgs CH FRS FRSE Schedule of the Charities Act 1993. Lord Rees of Ludlow OM, Kt, FRS National Railway Museum Advisory Board This year 51% of visitors to the Science Michael G Wilson OBE Museum came in family groups. A The Science Museum Group comprises: Chairman: Prof Sir Howard Newby CBE (Trustee) further 13% of our visitors came in Mr Philip Benham, from May 2013 Science Museum, London Mrs Gillian Cruddas MBE, until October 2013 education groups, and we remain the Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Trustee and Observer) UK museum with the most recorded awards including: three for last year’s our sister Museum in Manchester, National Railway Museum, York and Shildon Mr Christopher Garnett OBE visits by this segment. Adults visiting Web Lab exhibition, one of which was after which it moves on to international National Media Museum, Bradford Mr Bryan Gray CBE independently make up the remaining the People’s Voice Award for Best venues. Significant development and SCMG Enterprises Ltd Mr Brian Greenwood Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (Trustee), from 36% of our audience. For many visitors Visual Design at the Webby Awards; fundraising work has taken place on September 2013 to the capital the Museum is a must- Silver in the Visit England Access for Masterplan projects, including the Mr Simon Linnett (Trustee) see destination, with 42% of our All Awards for work to improve access; Information Age gallery, and new Mr Darren Richardson, from May 2013 Mr Adrian Shooter CBE general admission visitors coming Gold for the desks and maps designed mathematics and medical galleries. Mr Anton Valk from overseas and 20% from outside of to support visitor giving at the DBA Information Age opens in autumn Mr Philip Verster London and the Southeast. The Science Design Effectiveness Awards; and an 2014 with its associated learning Mr William Woolley Museum’s digital reach is global, with Innovation award from the Chartered programme and digital resources. National Media Museum Advisory Board 43% of our website traffic coming from Institute of Building for the Hemcrete Our new research centre is planned outside the UK. store at Wroughton. to open for autumn 2015. Chairman: Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE (Trustee) Mr Pierre Brahm Professor Brian Cantor, from October 2013 ACHIEVEMENTS FUTURE AMBITIONS Lady Chisholm (Trustee) Mr Philippe Garner This year there were 3.34 million visits The programme of major exhibitions Mr Matt Locke to the Museum. This is the highest continues with the opening of Ms Zahida Manzoor CBE Mr Roger Mosey, until May 2013 total since current records began and Cosmonauts later in 2014. Our Dr Annette Nabavi included the busiest ever February ambitions to tour our major exhibitions, Above: Model of machine for grinding concave Mr Simon Norfolk, until November 2013 half term, with nearly 150,000 visits in both within SMG and internationally, mirrors (after Leonardo da Vinci), by Goacher Model Engineering. From the permanent Mr Tony Reeves nine days and almost 20,000 in a single will be realised this year: Collider has Ms Carolyn Reynolds collections of the Science Museum, and recently Ms Gillian Reynolds MBE day. The Museum received a number of already transferred from London to displayed in the Smith Centre exhibition of models Trustees of the Science Museum Group and the Director pictured at the Annual Dinner

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Director: Jean Franczyk (MSF) is our annual signature event, the public realm and reinterpretation Museum of Science & bringing stakeholders together from and development of the historic Station Industry across the city and beyond, and leading Building. This will be followed by Liverpool Road, Castlefield the creative exploration of science projects to deliver major new galleries Manchester M3 4FP in Manchester. This year’s festival showcasing modern Manchester and www.mosi.org.uk received nearly 90,000 visits – an contemporary science, as well as increase of 7% on the previous year. world-class interactive galleries. In Our holiday programming has been partnership with the Science Museum, Objectives particularly successful, with 53,600 the Collider exhibition transferred visits during our Steam, Sweat and to Manchester as part of a broader The Museum of Science & Industry Sewers event over February half term. strategy to share public programming tells the story of where science across SMG, and also specifically to met industry and the modern world Future ambitions increase our contemporary science began whilst signalling Manchester programming. as a 21st-century city of science. The In the coming year, the Museum will Museum sits on one of the nation’s roll out its Masterplan. This has six In September 2014 Jean Franczyk most historic industrial heritage sites. priorities under Phase 1, including leaves Manchester to take up the Covering 7.5 acres and including six the creation of a new temporary post of Deputy Director of the Science listed structures, this small corner of exhibition gallery, redevelopment of Museum in London. Manchester is one of the key places in the UK, and therefore in the world, Refurbished on its centenary: the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Signalling School, the world’s oldest model railway where the Industrial Revolution began. Our ambition is to realise its potential as an internationally significant museum with a strong Director: Paul Kirkman This is supported by the following ACHIEVEMENTS Manchester personality. National Railway Museum objectives: maintain our collection and Leeman Road increase research and scholarship There were 926,000 visits to the Audiences York YO26 4XJ based on our collection; produce Museum in York this year – the highest www.nrm.org.uk an engaging and informative public since current records began; and This year the Museum welcomed programme, according to our five-year 296,000 to Shildon – 86,000 more visits 54,000 visitors in education groups to plan, which engages new audience than the next busiest year. During the explore the site, story and collections, OBJECTIVES segments with our overall narrative of Great Gathering in York 244,000 visited with 37,000 visitors from schools the railways; progress our Masterplan; over 32 days, and 120,000 came to the – a total of 248,000 visitor learning The National Railway Museum create an efficient and effective Great Goodbye in Shildon over nine days instances. Independent adults made comprises a main Museum in York organisation and focus on opportunities as part of the Mallard 75 celebrations. up 26% of overall visitor numbers, and a second Museum in Shildon, to raise additional income. The Museum was named winner of visitors in family groups made up 66% County Durham, which opened in the John Coiley Award, as part of and the remaining 8% of our visitors 2004. The NRM in Shildon is operated Paul Kirkman was confirmed as the Heritage Railway Association’s came in educational groups. Among in partnership with Durham County Director of the Museum on 12 July Annual Awards 2013. The Museum also general admissions visitors, 74% Council and houses some of the 2013, following a one-year secondment received a Good Place to Come award came from Greater Manchester and National Collection in a new building. from DCMS. from the Children’s Society following the Northwest region, with a further A charismatic 19th-century site features an audit by local young people with 16% from elsewhere in the UK and the former workshop of Timothy AUDIENCES disabilities. 10% from overseas. Hackworth, built for the world’s first passenger railway of 1825. Shildon is Our Museum in York continues to FUTURE AMBITIONS Achievements known as the ‘cradle of the railways’. appeal successfully to family groups, which make up 50% of visitors. Next year we shall be focusing on A major success this year was the During the past year a strategic Independent adults account for 46% of interpretation of our collections to Wellcome Collection exhibition Brains: review was carried out and a new visitors, whilst 4% come in education tell the stories of the railways, their Mind as Matter, which attracted vision agreed: ‘The NRM is the prime groups. The Museum is a particular impact and the passenger and worker 100,000 visits. Through this exhibition showcase in the world for the huge attraction for railway enthusiasts, who experience, supported by a new the Museum succeeded in its objective impact railways and their technology make up 30% of general admissions research strategy, public programme of drawing in new adult audiences. In have had in the past and will have in the visitors. Of our general admissions and learning offer. In 2014–15 we shall this 30th birthday year on its current future on the people, the economy, the visitors, 51% come from outside begin the first stage of our Masterplan site, there were 669,000 visits to the society and the environment of Britain the Yorkshire and Humber region, with commercial developments in the Museum. Manchester Science Festival Poetry in motion: Magnificent standing engines in steam daily in the Power Hall and the wider world.’ including 8% who are from overseas. South Yard.

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Director: Jo Quinton-Tulloch Audiences gathered in Bradford’s City Park for The 545-acre Wroughton site in hangars (including an award-winning National Media Museum the annual Bradford Festival. In Wiltshire is a vital resource for the Hemcrete store). A variety of smaller Pictureville The Museum has two broad audiences: November, the Museum was the whole Group. A former airfield, this buildings are used as offices, collection Bradford BD1 1NQ those who visit primarily for the Yorkshire host for the BBC’s Children vast site and the functions that operate storage areas and conservation www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk galleries and exhibitions and those in Need broadcast, generating over here underpin and support a whole laboratories. who visit mainly for the full-length 2000 visits to the Museum. range of Museum-wide activities, film programme. Last year 18% of including storage, conservation, The range of collections is Objectives all visits were for the cinema, 52% Future ambitions exhibitions and loan activities, as well extraordinary. Over 4 km of material were in family groups visiting the as providing access to researchers. from the Science Museum Library This year the Museum carried out galleries, 24% were independent With changes to the National The site is also used to deliver collection were successfully moved a re-visioning process to ensure its adults visiting the galleries and 5% Curriculum later in 2014, the Museum commercial activities and events, from Imperial College London to stores long-term sustainability. The revised were educational groups visiting the will continue to develop new learning and is leading on the generation of at Wroughton, the first stage in the mission is to explore the science, galleries. The Museum as a whole is programmes that will include a strong sustainable energy. project to deliver world-class new technology and art of the still and an important attraction and resource STEM focus. The Museum is also library and research facilities for the moving image, and its impact on our for communities in Yorkshire and a partner in two doctoral training Wroughton is home to the Science Science Museum. lives. Our vision is to be a dynamic the Humber, with 81% of our general consortia, the Northern Bridge Museum Group’s big-object store and and inclusive museum, internationally admissions visitors coming from Doctoral Training Partnership led its Library & Archives, with 30,000 recognised for its world-class collections the region. by the University of Newcastle, and objects and 26 km of books and Vehicle line-up: three among and for using them in engaging, The White Rose College of the Arts archives housed in ten former aircraft 30,000 big objects meaningful and inspiring ways. To Achievements & Humanities led by the University achieve this, our objectives are: of York. Between 2014 and 2019 General visits to the Museum have the Museum will offer a number of – To develop and implement our plans increased, with 365,000 for the placements for doctoral students for future financial sustainability galleries and exhibitions – 26,000 to support their research and skills – To care for, develop and share our more than last year. The Museum development. collections and set new standards celebrated its 30th birthday in June BLYTHE HOUSE COLLECTIONS STORE, LONDON – That every visitor will have a with a weekend of activities attended In 2014–15 the National Media Museum consistent cultural experience, and by almost 6000 people, including will also begin working with a new Blythe House is the Science Museum engage with a physical or virtual many new visitors. Events included a commercial partner to run the Group’s small-object store at Olympia. environment of the highest quality performance by the Punk Science team cinema operation. The Group currently occupies a third – To change perceptions and practice in front of thousands of spectators of this grand Edwardian Post Office through participation, community building, shared with the V&A and engagement and partnerships, to the British Museum. The bulk of the enrich our work and our visitor offer Science Museum’s collections are – That learning will be part of stored there, and the operations at everything that we do, with a focus Blythe House provide critical behind- on science and technology, drawing the-scenes support for public-facing inspiration from our collections results. – That targeted, effective external communications will raise our Activity focuses on the storage profile and reputation in all media and preservation of smaller-scale – To develop our staff to ensure they collections and those with particular deliver to their full potential and in environmental requirements, such turn provide the best experience as photographic images. It also has for our visitors, stakeholders and an object conservation laboratory, partners photographic studio and the object movement team to support gallery Jo Quinton-Tulloch became Director of and exhibition work and loans of our the National Media Museum in 2013. objects to other institutions. While the building offers a grand Cultivation event: façade in a central London location, Guest tour of Blythe House A major project for the team it is not a sustainable long-term based there this year has been solution for the storage of Science the preparation of the 700 objects Museum Group collections, and which will be displayed in the new work is under way to establish the Edward Turner’s children, 1901: the earliest Information Age gallery opening feasibility of leaving Blythe House colour moving pictures, discovered in our vaults this autumn. in the longer term.

74 75 to join the team responsible for its her career Heather has shaped and creation and opening. delivered projects and practice so that the Museum’s approach to informal 35 YEARS Back in London, Heather has been learning, interactivity, contemporary involved in almost every major project science and science communication has in the Science Museum over the past become firmly embedded within the DNA A PERSUADER 25 years. She has been instrumental of the Museum. Heather is frequently in securing millions of pounds in approached by peer organisations for sponsorship, managing key strategic advice and she has sat on numerous Jo Quinton-Tulloch, Director relationships, ensuring the Museum has boards and committees, including of the National Media always been at the forefront of science several in the USA. Museum, pays tribute to engagement. She has received an impressive list of awards. Her passion for the collections is a remarkable woman who matched by her unwavering support leaves a profound legacy Throughout her career Heather has for her teams. Heather has managed, within the Group tirelessly championed new ways of mentored and inspired countless making museum collections available individuals in the organisation and so to the widest number of people. In many of them have progressed to other t is increasingly rare to find someone the 1990s she led the delivery of the roles and other organisations – their who dedicates their entire career to first temporary exhibition programme careers all benefiting from time spent I one institution, building incomparable dedicated to contemporary science, together. Her humility and warmth expertise and knowledge. But Heather Science Box, which tackled challenging resonate alongside her determination Mayfield bucks the trend. This year and sensitive subjects such as DNA and she instils absolute confidence in she retires as Deputy Director of the fingerprinting and passive smoking. the teams that work with her. Heather’s Science Museum after 35 years of This ground-breaking programme retirement is a great loss to the Group, service in the Group. laid the foundations for the Wellcome but her legacy will continue to inspire Wing and then the Dana Centre – both millions of visitors. Heather joined the Museum in 1979 as absolutely ahead of the curve. Who else a Museum Assistant cataloguing items would have commissioned a project in Heather Mayfield continues her in the medical collection. That first which visitors dress up as cockroaches association with the Museum as temporary role was extended in 1982 and tour the Museum while exploring the Consultant for the Medical Galleries when the institution embarked on an impacts of climate change on project ambitious project that led, eventually, our world? The Science Museum has to the National Museum of Photography, always attracted visionaries. But the Hosting a VIP reception following an IMAX Film & Television. Never able to resist a hardest part of any new way of working is screening: Heather Mayfield, Deputy Director of challenge, Heather moved to Bradford establishing it as the norm. Throughout the Science Museum with Sir David Attenborough

76 SELECTED OUR COLLECTIONS WERE LOANED TO OUR COLLECTIONS ENTERPRISES ACTIVITY 30 VENUES IN THESE COUNTRIES In 2013–14 the Science Museum Group loaned 1641 objects to SMG INFLUENCE AROUND THE GLOBE 2013–14 Canada Russia Australia Ireland SMG REACH WITHIN THE UK 2013–14 191 different venues in the UK, a selection indicated in green France Turkey Belgium Japan LIFT HERE LIFT HERE Germany Ukraine Canada Jersey One of the key things we are trying to challenge is the idea that science, engineering Ireland USA Denmark Netherlands This year proved the power of authenticity; big projects anchored in real science. SM – Science Museum, London and design are all part of Britain’s great industrial past, not our future France Norway Tangible objects matter enormously to people MOSI – Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester Germany Spain NRM – National Railway Museum, York and Shildon India USA NMeM – National Media Museum, Bradford GEORGE OSBORNE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER IAN BLATCHFORD SMG DIRECTOR

exhibition:

enjoyed its best year ever with a total of 1,222,000 visits. Numbers for

is growing at an ever faster rate, with visits to SMG websites totalling 26,460,000, at all SMG this Museums financial rose year 11% to a record 5,712,000. The Science

THE BIGGEST MUSEUM ALLIANCE IN SCIENCE / INGENUITY HUMAN OF SNAPSHOTS

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exhibition:

enjoyed its best year ever with a total of 1,222,000 visits. Numbers for

is growing at an ever faster rate, with visits to SMG websites totalling 26,460,000, at all SMG this Museums financial rose year 11% to a record 5,712,000. The Science

THE BIGGEST MUSEUM ALLIANCE IN SCIENCE / INGENUITY HUMAN OF SNAPSHOTS

PAD