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Download the Annual Review 2013–14 THE BIGGEST MUSEUM ALLIANCE SCIENCE IN / The Science Museum helped The universe cannot wish The National Railway fuel my fascination with for a more perceptive eye Museum’s celebration of physics. So it is wonderful to see that than the Science Museum Mallard’s world speed record was more young people than ever are ROBBERT DIJKGRAAF a triumph, attracting an astonishing DIRECTOR AND LEON LEVY PROFESSOR AT THE INSTITUTE FOR getting the opportunity to feel that ADVANCED STUDY IN PRINCETON 364,000 visits same inspiration LORD FAULKNER OF WORCESTER SMG TRUSTEE PROFESSOR STEPHEN HAWKING AT THE LAUNCH OF THE COLLIDER EXHIBITION The Museum of Science & Our Bradford collections Industry is a fantastic asset hold many treasures by and will help keep the northwest’s media pioneers from the dawn of spirit of curiosity and innovation alive photography. These collections © 2014 The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum PROFESSOR BRIAN COX will drive the radical shift in UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER perceptions that is required to Edited by David Johnson with generous input from staff at SMG attract more visitors into the and its many bloggers National Media Museum LORD GRADE SMG TRUSTEE AND CHAIR, NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Designed by the Science Museum Design Studio ADVISORY BOARD Project manager, Sian Worsfold SNAPSHOTS OF HUMAN INGENUITY OUR FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS Picture researchers, Nick Hedley, Richard Nicholls Copy editor, Lawrence Ahlemeyer Science Museum, London Astronauts floating weightlessly Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester in space loved spinning around National Railway Museum, York Main photography from Group resources: like tops within the tiny Apollo Museum of Science & Industry 10 command module. With the National Media Museum, Bradford National Media Museum new Science Museum iPad National Railway Museum, Shildon National Railway Museum/Pictorial Collection app, Journeys of Invention, you can emulate them, Science & Society Picture Library thanks to pin-sharp 360-degree Science Museum Library & Archives rotational photography stitched seamlessly together. Science Museum Photographic Studio You can also see the original NASA footage from 1969 when Gene Cernan, Thomas Stafford and John Young were in Moon orbit. Apollo 10 is on loan to the A YEAR FOR BREAKING RECORDS Science Museum from Washington’s Smithsonian With thanks for additional photographs by: Institution and we cannot touch it, even with gloved Total attendances at all SMG Museums rose 11% this financial year to a record 5,712,000. The Science Max Alexander/UK Space Agency, Tim Anderson, hands. So we chose a boom to suspend a camera Museum hit an all-time high at 3,342,000, and achieved its biggest ever February half-term figure inside to capture an astronaut’s eye view – taking you Kasim Asim, BBGConsulting, British Council (Russia), (140,000 over nine days with almost 20,000 people in a single day). Rick Bronks (Satureyes Photography), David Cation, the visitor ‘behind the glass’! The app, published by Touch Press, enjoyed 250,000 downloads in its Jon Challicom, Coffey Architects, Edmund Collier, first six months. Photograph by Drew Gardner. The National Railway Museum enjoyed its best year ever with a total of 1,222,000 visits. Numbers for Toby Cornish, Nathan Dainty (VeryCreative), Benjamin Read more on page 11 NRM York leapt to 926,000, up more than 25% on the previous year. NRM Shildon welcomed 120,000 Ealovega, Kate Elliott, Stewart Emmens, David Exton, visits over the course of eight days for the Great Goodbye. Chris Foster, Drew Gardner (Touch Press), Getty Images, Andrew Gillett, Peter Heaton, Jorge Herrera, Jennie Hills, Visitor giving goes on booming: £2 million was received across the Group’s five Museums. 250,000 downloads? KCM Malta, Andrew Manning, Kippa Matthews, Barry Staff in London and York benefited from new welcome desks which have won design awards. MacDonald, Rob McDougall, Metaphor, Santiago Arribas That’s 250,000 people The Science Museum welcomed a record-breaking 442,000 visitors in education groups, more than any Peña, Plastiques Photography, Sam Potts, Jonathan who know our collections other UK museum. Of these 341,000 were school pupils. Pow, Jo Quinton-Tulloch, David Robertson, Nigel Roddis better than before Photography Ltd., Zeynep M. Saygin, McGovern Institute/ Our digital audience is growing at an ever faster rate, with visits to SMG websites totalling 26,460,000, MIT, Smith and Scholey, TAPE, Paul Thompson, a surge of 29%. IAN BLATCHFORD THE SCIENCE MUSEUM’S DIRECTOR Telegraph & Argus (Bradford),Natalia Vremyachkina, ON OUR JOURNEYS OF INVENTION APP FOR IPAD Wellcome Library/Wellcome Images (London), Wide Angle Pictures, Kira Zumkley Cover picture Geniuses of modern theoretical physics at the Science Museum’s Collider exhibition: Printed by CPI Colour, using sustainable paper – Cocoon Silk 100, which Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize laureate and Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, who is produced from 100% post-consumer recycled, FSC certified pulp. Less predicted the existence of the Higgs boson; and Stephen Hawking, Director of Research at the Centre energy and water are consumed and fewer CO emissions are produced 2 for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. They are seen before a cross-section image during manufacturing, compared with the production of virgin fibre paper. CASH BOOST FOR MANCHESTER NEW SPACES, NEW STYLES INFORMAL LEARNING SPECIAL of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, displayed in our exhibition, Collider, which is set to tour the world. FSC recycled certification, NAPM 100% recycled certification, ISO 14001, PAGE 10 PAGES 8 AND 18 WHAT WE DO BEST: PAGES 36–43 Process Chlorine Free (PCF) and PAS 2020:2009 Level 3. Photograph by Nathan Dainty © Science Museum PHYSICS AS PURE THEATRE STEAM LOCOS BREAK RECORDS SCHOLARSHIP CHERISHED ANEW PAGE 12 PAGE 26 PAGE 52 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
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