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SOYUZ

This 360-degree crew’s-eye view of Peake’s Soyuz cabin was shot using a Samsung Gear VR camera by our group’s Digital Lab

The Soyuz TMA-19M descent module that While in orbit, Peake had watched a video returned British astronaut Tim Peake safely of the launch party held in December from orbit is the first spacecraft flown by 2015 at the museum and had wished he man to enter the Science Museum Group had been celebrating too with the 3000 HERO PEAKE’S collection. As the UK’s first European schoolchildren who counted down towards Space Agency astronaut, Peake scored his liftoff. When reunited with the Soyuz, he a double scoop when he unveiled the reminisced about first seeing the capsule capsule at the Science Museum in January. crammed with cargo before its launch – On that day – marking the London launch ‘one of the few times I have been grateful SOYUZ LANDS of the 2017 UK–Russia Year of Science and to be only five foot eight’ – and then about Education – the news also broke that he looking on in awe when it sat atop almost would be returning to space. 300 tonnes of rocket fuel before launch.

Standing before his Soyuz, which bears Among the dignitaries and media present IN LONDON the scorch marks of its 1600 °C re-entry were Mary Archer, who awarded Peake a from space, he declared how he ‘always Science Museum Fellowship; group trustee gets such enormous pleasure from visits David Willetts, who in 2013, while UK science to the Science Museum’. Draped from minister, paved the way for UK manned girders above him was its main parachute missions; Greg Clark, secretary of state; which helped cushion his descent to the Vladimir Lvovich Solntsev, president of RSC ‘I’m quite fond of this spacecraft... steppe of Kazakhstan. ‘I’m quite fond of Energia, which built the Soyuz spacecraft; VIEW THIS this spacecraft,’ he said. ‘We go back a bit.’ deputy minister of science and education of tinyurl.com/lhc4kto We go back a bit’ the Russian Federation, Veniamin Kaganov; tinyurl.com/y8umaxm3 Tim Peake, British astronaut and Helen Sharman, first Briton in space. Tim Peake’s Space Descent VR – page 18 RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

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WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US OUR FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS Science Museum, London THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP National Railway Museum, York Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester National Science and Media Museum, Bradford HARMONY ‘I am incredibly proud of our science Locomotion, Shildon museums. It is so exciting that we are here in Rio working together to SUPPORT OUR MUSEUMS engage people in science’ Visit sciencemuseum.org.uk/donate or for AND THE corporate membership and patrons see page 59 Karen Bradley, secretary of state for Culture, Media and Sport THE YEAR ON VIDEO sciencemuseum.org.uk/annual-review-video IN LONDON POWER ‘The Science Museum is an innovative place. Samsung and the Science Museum is a brilliant OF FIVE combination’ Russell Taylor, CMO, Samsung UK and Ireland Dame Mary Archer, chairman of the Science Museum Group,

IN YORK AND SHILDON captures the spirit of an energetic year

‘A million people have seen Flying The relaunch of the National Science and Scotsman in the past year. It has Media Museum, along with a new brand, SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP a new website and a Wonderlab gallery, become an amazing brand emblem ANNUAL REVIEW 2016–17 was perhaps the standout moment in for the National Railway Museum, © 2017 The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum what was a remarkably busy year for the as much as the Virgin Azuma will Science Museum Group. The first two Edited by David Johnson months following relaunch saw an be a brand leader for Virgin Trains with generous input from staff across the group on the east coast’ and its many bloggers increase of nearly a third in visit numbers. Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder Designed by Steve Lancefield When I tried out the gallery’s interactive Project manager Ellen Hayward-Seers delights – its mirror maze, echo tube, IN MANCHESTER assisted by Jessie Lewis hypnotic zoetrope and more – it struck me that the rebirth of our Bradford Copy editor Lawrence Ahlemeyer museum marks a step change in activity ‘To be given an exhibition at Main photography from group resources: across the group. It signals much more the Museum of Science and Museum of Science and Industry to come in a year that saw a significant National Science and Media Museum Industry was a great honour. It National Railway Museum/Pictorial Collection STEM ambassador programme now run Science & Society Picture Library from the Museum of Science and Industry was also a great way to celebrate Science Museum Library and Archives in Manchester, progress at the National the innovative spirit that won Science Museum Photographic Studio Daily Herald Archive/National Science and Media Museum Railway Museum with our partners in the Manchester the accolade York Central development, Locomotion With thanks for additional photographs by: in Shildon smartening up its impressive of European City of Science’ Alchemy VR, Tim Anderson, Kasim Asim, Polly Braden, Dan Clarkson, John Clifton, Kieran Davis, Benjamin Ealovega, Drew Forsyth, Fresh Cut collection, the superb new Mathematics Professor Sir Andre Geim, Nobel Prize-winner Creative, Hugo Glendinning, Nick Guttrdige, Jody Hartley, Jennie Hills, gallery, the opening of the original now and in the future. We have pioneered creating our new unified Science Museum Kate Hunter, Keoma Zec Photography, Jody Kingzett, Jason Lock, Barry Wonderlab in London’s Science Museum the concept of ‘science capital’ – a Group Collection website. Macdonald, Lee Mawdsley, National Graphene Institute, Phil Oates, Dan IN BRADFORD Oxtoby, Hazel Palmer, Richard Pearson, Jonathan Perugia, Plastiques and our growing research strength. person’s scientific literacy, their familiarity Photography, Dan Prince, Queensland Museum, SMG Digital Lab, Paul with science in daily life and their I am grateful to the Board of Trustees ‘Our new name, the National Science Thompson, Virgin Trains East Coast Our priorities are now set within the appreciation of science’s worth – and are who give of their time and expertise Printed by Go Agency, using sustainable paper – Cocoon Silk 100, framework of the group’s new strategic using this to inspire the next generation of so willingly in both formal and informal and Media Museum, emphasises which is produced from 100% post-consumer recycled, FSC certified vision, Inspiring Futures 2017–30, which scientists, inventors and engineers. capacities. It remains essential for all pulp. Less energy and water are consumed and fewer CO emissions its responsibilities to its local 2 has been developed over the past 18 our museums to forge new philanthropic are produced during manufacturing, compared with the production community and the nation as a whole’ of virgin fibre paper. FSC recycled certification, NAPM 100% recycled months by a group ably led by group We are extending our international reach, and corporate funding relationships, certification, ISO 14001, Process Chlorine Free (PCF) and PAS trustee David Willetts and is published and the director’s report focuses on and I especially thank all our donors and Lord Grade, chairman of the museum’s advisory board 2020:2009 Level 3 alongside this Annual Review (see page this important aspect of our work. Each partners. Together we will fulfil the 61 for a brief outline). of the museums within the group has group’s mission to inspire futures. international stature, as well as a fierce Cover image: A thermal imaging camera is sensitive to infrared radiation and enables us to ‘see’ thermal energy and highlight differences between The group’s vision is to create a society sense of pride in its regional heritage, hot and cold places. This proves invaluable in surveillance and in search and rescue. Here, the thermal camera exhibited in Wonderlab detects a Above: At our Bradford museum’s relaunch this young visitor and the resulting ‘heat map’ is displayed on a large screen. The opening of a dazzling new Wonderlab marked the rebranding of the that celebrates science, technology and but we now work more as a group where spring: its chairman Michael Grade, Mary Archer National Science and Media Museum in Bradford. Photography by Lee Mawdsley engineering and their impact on our lives, it makes sense to do so, for example in and museum director Jo Quinton-Tulloch

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SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP ANNUAL REVIEW 2016–17

‘The Science Museum Group enjoys a unique place in the UK learning ecosystem and is a global leader for inspiring schoolchildren and helping to nurture the next generation of engineers’ Professor Dame Ann Dowling, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering

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Inside front Peake’s Soyuz lands in London ON OTHER PAGES

20 Visitors giving more generously 4 Soft power with a purpose: 24 Starchitects vie for our spaces director Ian Blatchford on our global reach 25 Caring for the wounded millions 36 Manchester Science Festival is 10! 6 We are the place to be 37 Potent widescreen weekend 42 Cat brings in the toddlers 43 How to survive connectivity Two new world-beating Wonderlabs... 48 Spin-off events create a buzz 8 ...Bradford the new home of Wow! 50 Lates tick the adult boxes 12 ...Recruiting new audiences in London 52 Surfing abroad, making friends 54 What we acquired last year 55 What we lent out 14 Year of Scotsman superstar 64 Shildon’s feast of steam treats

16 Manchester makes a stand for science APPENDIX Our five museums in profile

18 Digital energises everything we do 56 Diversifying income to sustain growth 22 Expert volunteers go busking 58 Our generous supporters and how to give 60 Who’s who among our trustees 26 Igniting curiosity, training in STEM 61 Science Museum Group vision 62 Science Museum, London 32 Robots blockbuster set for global acclaim National Railway Museum Museum of Science and Industry 63 National Science and Media Museum 38 Research centre switches to top gear Locomotion, Shildon Science Museum Group Store 44 Collections coalesce as a global resource Blythe House Collections Store Inside back Graphene’s sticky start Pictured: Flash! Bang! Wallop! An explainer demonstrates the chemistry of explosions in a live event in our London Wonderlab Back cover Maths made beautiful by Zaha Hadid RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

DIRECTOR’S WELCOME OUT IN THE WORLD: POWER WITH PURPOSE In an extraordinary year for travel, group director Ian Blatchford outlines the extent of our global reach and a reciprocal appetite for creative collaborations

Britain is witnessing a period of new strategic alliances in India and China. self-anointed ‘space sister’, Valentina powerhouses joining forces on projects partnership meetings in Beijing, Hong ‘We should become the extraordinary political activity, not the We continued to relish strong relationships Tereshkova, also made a special journey exploring the future of antibiotics and also Kong and Wuhan (by deliberate most truly international least being the Brexit referendum and with European partners. In Manchester, to celebrate her 80th birthday at a gala agriculture, a vivid illustration that almost coincidence a delegation from the Wuhan a general election this year. There will the Museum of Science and Industry concert in the museum (see page 52). every significant scientific challenge Science and Technology Association group of science be a period of political and economic played a pivotal role in the EuroScience needs a global perspective and invariably visited our Museum of Science and museums in the world; uncertainty as the exit terms are agreed, Open Forum, the largest interdisciplinary The Science Museum also deepened its British scientists are showing impressive Industry). Staff exchanges, expertise and become a powerful and so it is vital that all leading national meeting in Europe. As the city celebrated cultural bonds with the Russian scientific leadership. And at the Museum of sharing and exhibition planning are cultural diplomat, institutions play their part in promoting being European City of Science, the community as 2017 brought the UK–Russia Astronomy and Related Sciences in Rio, already following on from this, as does British values and ambitions to existing and museum’s Manchester Science Festival Year of Science and Education. I signed a I signed a contract to show our exhibition our growing portfolio of touring exhibitions, providing outstanding potential international partners. Happily, also broke records and became the most partnership agreement with the largest 3D: Printing the Future. which by the end of the year had been promotion of British internationalism is a core value for the popular science festival in the country. In space museum in Russia, the Tsiolkovsky seen by more than a million people. science and values’ Science Museum Group, as innovation in London, the Science Museum hosted the Museum of the History of Cosmonautics During a trade mission to Delhi and science and engineering is so collaborative British showing of an exhibition, Leonardo in Kaluga; and the museum’s ground- Bangalore in late 2016, the British and Continuing our global perspective, the Ian Blatchford and cross-border. At the same time, Britain da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius, curated breaking Cosmonauts exhibition closed in Indian prime ministers announced the Science Museum held a highly successful has an amazing story to tell about its by Universcience in Paris and the National Moscow after a long run and rave reviews. Science Museum’s plans for exhibitions in Lates event for the Bill and Melinda Gates contribution to world science, in past and Museum of Science and Technology autumn 2017 centred on the rich history of Foundation in which Bill Gates and pop future, and the nation will also need more Leonardo da Vinci in Milan. During the 2016 Summer Olympics in Indian scientific innovation. These form a star will.i.am were watched in-conversation young people to make STEM career choices Brazil, at Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of major part of the UK–India Year of Culture by a quarter of a million people worldwide if we are to thrive in the new economy. The great acquisition of the year on behalf Tomorrow, a spectacular new science in 2017. As in our recent work in Russia, on Facebook. of the nation was the Soyuz spacecraft centre in the harbour, I secured a the group enjoys exceptionally strong To underline our role as the world’s used by Tim Peake on his Principia mission partnership memorandum in the presence partnerships with the British Council and Coupled with the remarkable vibrancy leading alliance of science museums, and as the first UK astronaut of the European of the UK secretary of state for Culture, Foreign & Commonwealth Office. in current British science, the work of commitment to our new strategy (see page Space Agency (see inside front cover). Media and Sport, Karen Bradley, along with the Science Museum Group is rightly 61), let’s take a world tour of how the group A constellation of 12 astronauts and the British ambassador and British Council Moving further east, we made a significant celebrated as a unique and powerful embraced the international scene over the cosmonauts from the Association of Space director to Brazil. The agreement received start on forging relationships in China in player in cultural diplomacy. Above: A new partnership sealed in Rio… British past year. Our long-standing friendships Explorers gathered in May to celebrate extensive media coverage in Brazil and October with presentations at a major Council director in Brazil Martin Dowle, Ricardo Piquet, director of the Museum of Tomorrow, UK in Europe and the USA thrived, we signed the 25th anniversary of the launch of the was presented as an exciting alliance symposium in Shanghai for the nation’s culture secretary Karen Bradley, Ian Blatchford a major partnership in Brazil and signalled first UK astronaut, Helen Sharman. Her of established and emerging science science and technology museums and and then UK ambassador to Brazil Alexander Ellis

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‘The Science Museum’s new Wonderlab gallery is the best thing you can currently do in London WE ARE THE with kids’ Time Out magazine

1 Richard Leese, deputy mayor of Greater PLACE TO BE Manchester, speaks at the opening of the Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond exhibition at the 1 11 12 Museum of Science and Industry

2 Ellie Simmonds (left) and Eleanor Robinson (right) with CBBC's Hacker T Dog enjoying the Museum of Science and Industry before going on the parade for Olympic and Paralympic heroes

3 Paul Kirkman, director of the National Railway Museum, alongside Andrew Adonis, chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, at a Future Forum event in York

4 John Romero, co-creator of Doom, was among video game designers, developers and players attending the inaugural Yorkshire Games Festival at the National Science and Media Museum

5 At a Science Museum schools event, NASA 2 3 4 administrator Charles Bolden shared stories about the forthcoming asteroid mission OSIRIS- REx and deploying the Hubble Space Telescope. He was interviewed by physicist Lucie Green, a Royal Society university research fellow

6 Python comedian Eric Idle at the launch of the Science Museum exhibition honouring the 80th birthday of cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova

7 At Wonderlab launch night, former chancellor George Osborne, Science Museum Group chairman Mary Archer, managing director of Statoil UK Rob Adams and group director Ian Blatchford

8 Bradford MPs Naz Shah and Philip Davies visit Soyuz TMA-19M in London with Jo Quinton- 5 13 Tulloch, director of the National Science and Media Museum, where Soyuz tours this autumn

9 Astronomer Royal Martin Rees with Helen Sharman, first Briton in space, and Sarah Sands, then editor of the Evening Standard at the newspaper's Progress 1000 launch

10 Discussing ‘Do we need experts?’ at the Science Museum Lates in January, Rowland White of Penguin Books, physicist Jim Al-Khalili and geneticist Steve Jones

11 Deputy lord mayor of Bradford councillor Alun Griffiths, director of the National Science and Media Museum Jo Quinton-Tulloch and artist Mat Collishaw at the launch of the Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph exhibition 6 7 12 Mary Dowson, director of BCB Radio, meets Gillian Reynolds, journalist and member of the advisory board, at the National Science and Media Museum’s Wonderlab opening

13 HRH The Prince of Wales was named ‘Londoner of the Decade’ at the Evening Standard’s celebration of London’s most influential people at the Science Museum. Here enjoying Joanna Lumley’s company

14 Nobel Prize-winner Andre Geim at the opening of Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, with director Sally MacDonald and group director of external affairs Roger Highfield 8 9 10 14

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NATIONAL SCIENCE AND MEDIA MUSEUM NATIONAL SCIENCE AND MEDIA MUSEUM

‘Yorkshire has an amazing selection of national museums and we are delighted to see Bradford launching a cutting-edge new BRADFORD gallery giving visitors yet another reason to choose Yorkshire’ Sir Gary Verity, chief executive of REBOOTS Welcome to Yorkshire A unique new hands-on gallery underlines our museum’s strengths in sound and vision

What a difference a year makes. In these The museum’s world-beating collections pages last year we wrote of taking steps across the technology and culture of towards ‘fulfilling our promise’. In a blog photography, film and TV are widely post, group chairman Mary Archer wrote acknowledged to be unrivalled; Wonderlab of the Bradford museum developing ‘a explores the science behind what makes tantalising picture’ of its potential. these phenomena wondrous. Building on the experience of creating the Science Now, 12 months later, an extraordinary Museum’s Wonderlab which opened fanfare has surrounded the opening of our in London last October, our gallery in Left: Visitors to Wonderlab see if they can tell own unique interactive gallery, Wonderlab, Bradford is already inspiring the next reflections and reality apart Below: Michael Grade is challenged to explore the along with a stunning new visual identity generations of scientists, engineers, film- science of sound by group chairman Mary Archer for the museum and an industry-leading makers and artists to see more, hear more, and museum director Jo Quinton-Tulloch. Behind website. There is a palpable sense that the think more and do more. As Sir Gary Verity, them, group trustee Ludmilla Jordanova newly named National Science and Media chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire Museum has been, in the words of director says: ‘Wonderlab has the potential to blow Jo Quinton-Tulloch, well and truly rebooted. minds of all ages.’

Michael Grade, chairman of the museum’s The evidence of the opening weekend is advisory board, says: ‘The recent compelling: 3100 people came to enjoy investment of £1.8 million in the new Wonderlab, with some travelling 100 miles Wonderlab is proving a game-changer – a to play with light, sound and perception. truly world-class attraction for the region.’ Most of the exhibits – which reveal the science of light, sound and perception – have been made especially for our world- class gallery, many by scientists, artists and technicians from the region.

Visitors see their body split from their head as they walk, hear their voice echo through a 15-metre-long tube, experience an anti-gravity mirror and a musical laser tunnel, and can operate one of the world’s first 3D-printed zoetrope installations. People often refer to experiences like our fondly remembered magic carpet ride, and we believe these interactives will inspire the same affection in years to come.

Right: Entertainment at the Wonderlab launch... which was attended by lord mayor of Bradford councillor Geoff Reid... One of the exhibits enables you to explore sound waves using water

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‘We have seen a total makeover for the museum. We are well A BEACON and truly rebooted as the new home of Wow’ Jo Quinton-Tulloch, director of the FOR EVERY National Science and Media Museum BRADFORD

FAMILY Listen out and watch out! Changing our name to the National Science and Media Museum now makes New world-class galleries are on the horizon clear what people can expect when they but our immediate priorities are local visit. It is the start of a long-term strategy to look at the museum’s core subjects differently through the prism of science and technology. Bradford’s National Science and Media interactive displays. Thought-provoking Museum has spent the past year cementing exhibits included examples of darkroom We are now working to create the Sound its position as a beacon for its very broad manipulation dating from just 20 years and Vision galleries which will, for the first community. In 2016 two exhibitions used after photography’s invention, plus the time, bring together our most important photography and community engagement Before & After project by journalist Esther This page, clockwise: objects, covering the key moments in the to challenge perceptions of difference and Honig, who asked photo editors around The museum’s history of photography, film and television. celebrate diversity. the world to manipulate her portrait and rebranded exterior... ‘Lucie, Milton Keynes As group chairman Mary Archer puts it: ‘make me beautiful’. Sports Centre’ is one ‘Glorious collections will move from the There are about 1.5 million people in the of Polly Braden’s Great basement stores to public display.’ UK with a learning disability and 700,000 Taken together, Great Interactions and Interactions... Esther Honig’s project Before with autism. Photographer Polly Braden In Your Face illustrate the museum’s & After for In Your Face The museum has worked with the leading spent two years working with just a few commitment to being truly open for all. agencies North and Numiko to create a who are supported by MacIntyre, a charity visual identity and a digital presence that that provides support and care to children Celebrating the Yorkshire Games Festival will, for the first time in its history, match and adults with learning difficulties. A – page 19 the ambition and quality of what happens ground-breaking exhibition, entitled Great within our walls. Interactions, presented images and stories which recognised the daily interactions Museum director Jo Quinton-Tulloch says: and achievements of people with a “Ours is a museum that is here to stay, to learning disability. The aim was simple: to grow and to thrive.” challenge outdated perceptions of what it means to live with a learning disability.

Over the summer the In Your Face exhibition built on Great Interactions to explore the science behind how humans are ‘hard-wired’ to see and judge faces. The exhibition took as its point of departure the idea that faces are the major vehicle through which we connect with each other and used science and technology to help visitors develop their capacity to see and notice more, and judge less.

Curators worked with the campaign group Changing Faces, which challenges appearance-focused discrimination, to A new licensed bar has opened alongside Pictureville develop the show’s content, ranging from cinema in the Bradford museum, which can screen all historical still photography to cutting-edge historic film formats

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WONDERLAB LONDON WONDERLAB LONDON

’Wonderlab helps visitors to think like scientists and gain an insight into the transferability of those skills‘ Toby Parkin, head of learning and curator of Wonderlab

Last October, the Science Museum Group’s Twelve winning schoolchildren brought their museum also initiated relationships with mission to inspire the next generation classes as the first visitors to experience the charities Family Action, Gingerbread of scientists and engineers reached a the gallery’s 50 exhibits. Wonderlab was and IntoUniversity to extend its reach. major milestone as Wonderlab: The Statoil officially opened by minister of state for Gallery opened its doors and welcomed digital and culture Matt Hancock at a starry Two new corporate sponsors have helped 205,000 people in its first six months – event also attended by former chancellor inspire the next generation by making representing 11% of all visits to London’s George Osborne. possible Wonderlab: The Statoil Gallery – Science Museum. Collaborating with title sponsor Statoil, and major sponsor Muf Architecture/Art, we have created a Figures such as Stephen Hawking, Helen URENCO. Further generous support for truly inspirational hands-on experience Sharman and James Lovelock have all Wonderlab came from the Stavros where visitors of all ages can observe and been inspired as young visitors to the Niarchos Foundation, the Royal experiment in seven science zones, from Science Museum, and we hope that the Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, light and sound to maths and space. great scientists of the future will cite individuals and other organisations. Wonderlab as their inspiration. The The gallery shows the beauty of science and helps young and old to apply the skills that scientists need – curiosity, close attention and creativity. There is a slide with three lanes made of different materials so you can gauge the fastest. A huge rotating turntable models the solar system and invites you to see how day, night, seasons and eclipses are created. You can touch a cloud, see lightning strike or ask for your own chemistry experiment to be staged at a laboratory bench.

We launched a national campaign to raise Opposite: Wonderlab’s Infinity Boxes awareness of Wonderlab’s opening. It sets This page, top: Live experiments at the out to inspire adults and children alike to Chemistry Bar think differently about the world and to Left: Guests at Wonderlab’s starry launch night included Meera Syal and her family, and Vic Reeves recognise that wondering is a powerful, and his wife Nancy Sorrell positive activity. We took high-profile Above: Science Museum director of external affairs IGNITING LONDON’S advertising spots across the country and Roger Highfield, DCMS minister Matt Hancock and group deputy director Jonathan Newby invited David Attenborough to voice a short film explaining the power of wonder. CURIOSITY FOR SCIENCE Public figures such as Patrick Stewart, Professor Brian Cox, Pharrell Williams, Lauren Laverne and NASA’s Charles Bolden The Science Museum’s world-beating hands-on gallery shared their own wonder as part of our aims to extend our reach beyond traditional museum audiences social-media campaign.

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‘We’ve invested in a lively approach to explaining railway know-how to future engineers (and their parents)’ YORK DECLARES Paul Kirkman, director, National Railway Museum FULL STEAM AHEAD

Flying Scotsman’s glorious tour of the Our Flying Scotsman season kicked off Steam rides were a big hit with younger This year the Mystery on the Rails season Flying Scotsman’s popularity continues British Isles began what became a year with a free 3D experience in sound and railway enthusiasts, generating £51,000 trialled an immersive way for visitors to drive sales of the retail range, created of real progress for the National Railway vision examining the dramas of the in six months. A premium offer of Flying to discover how railways have inspired under licence by Peter Black, delivering Museum when about 1 million people locomotive’s celebrity career and a display Scotsman footplate experiences sold detective fiction. Set aboard a series of £10,000 gross profit from strong sales enjoyed seeing this magnificent icon of in the Great Hall telling the century-old out within four days, demonstrating historic railway carriages, the programme in all outlets including the National the steam age. In York experimental new history of the luxury service between the demand for authentic experiences highlight of The Missing Passenger invited Railway Museum shop, nrmshop.co.uk approaches to temporary exhibitions London and Edinburgh. among railway enthusiasts. In April Flying visitors to step into a murder mystery as and in Marks & Spencer stores. have enlivened the presentation of our Scotsman took part in the ‘Four Trains’ the detective trying to identify the culprit. national collection as we diversify the The museum announced the final cost of event which celebrated the past, present Other innovations include a new Mallard- Shildon Shed Bash – page 64 museum’s appeal. returning Flying Scotsman to the tracks as and future of the East Coast Main Line. themed special educational needs £4.5 million, after a complex restoration learning programme. Director Paul Kirkman said: ‘Progression is project lasting a decade. The price As the museum aims to tell bigger, very much the golden thread for our past was handsomely rewarded with record bolder stories by providing more sensory Icing on the cake: the museum’s café in year which finished with the agreed sale audiences and sold-out heritage tours as experiences for visitors, we launched the Pullman carriage Countess of York of our brownfield site – the first down- our best ambassador demonstrated the Ambulance Trains as a permanent display won first place for Afternoon Tea of the payment on our transformative vision for engineering behind steam traction to new on the 100th anniversary of the Battle Year in the Visit England Awards 2017. an enhanced global museum in 2025.’ generations of fans. of the Somme with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund. Set aboard an Top: A unique line-up celebrating past, present historic railway carriage, projection, and future on the East Coast Main Line – the film and sound remind us vividly how museum’s Flying Scotsman, ahead of a Virgin Azuma (Class 800), due to enter service in 2018, ambulance trains once evacuated sick and and Virgin HSTs Class 91 and Class 43 injured troops during the First World War Left: Future Engineers exhibition (see page 25). Above: Timothy Hackworth’s original steam locomotive Sans Pareil, which took part in the 1829 Rainhill Trials against Rocket, being To grow ‘science capital’ – a person’s rehoused in the collections hall at Locomotion, scientific literacy, their familiarity with Shildon, this year. The iconic engine was presented to the Patent Office Museum (what science in daily life and some appreciation became the Science Museum) in 1864 of science’s worth – in individuals and Right: The Missing Passenger murder mystery society, the National Railway Museum exhibition opened its first Future Engineers programme. Young people, schools and families explored railway engineering VIEW THIS topics with hands-on activities attended by nrm.org.uk/planavisit/events/mystery/ engineers and rail industry professionals. mystery-on-the-rails

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MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

‘We are the northern home for creative which saw 4500 scientists and science ‘We are a driving force science engagement,’ says Sally communicators from across the world MacDonald, director of the Museum of come to Manchester to discuss the latest for Manchester as a Science and Industry. It is a bold claim, breakthroughs in science. science city, and also but one that the museum is well placed to play a vital part in make, following an exceptional year at the We not only support established scientists, developing STEM skills centre of Manchester’s tenure as European we are also inspiring new generations. Sally City of Science (ECOS). At the closing party MacDonald said: ‘We are a driving force for across the wider region’ for ECOS, Nancy Rothwell, president of the Manchester as a science city, and also play Sally MacDonald, director of the University of Manchester, who was awarded a vital part in developing STEM skills across Museum of Science and Industry a Science Museum Group Fellowship at the the city and wider region. That’s what’s event, said it was a ‘hugely exciting time unique about this museum. We can create for public engagement with science’. historic experiences such as our popular steam train ride or produce England’s The museum also played a key role in the biggest science festival, and at the same EuroScience Open Forum programme, time embed STEM learning and encourage

Opposite: Visitors to the Science in the City Lates children and young people to develop a the world, and this exhibition is a perfect event make jewellery based on the structure of love of science that will stay with them example. It goes on an international tour graphene This page, clockwise: Melvin Bragg aboard the their whole lives.’ after closing in Manchester.’ museum’s replica Planet locomotive during a recording for BBC Radio 4... Olympic gold medal- This was the year the museum also Last summer the museum also hosted winning boxer Nicola Adams meets Sally MacDonald during the Team GB homecoming parade... Nancy launched Wonder Materials: Graphene a gathering of Team GB’s Olympic and Rothwell receives her Science Museum Fellowship and Beyond – the first time the team Paralympic athletes including multi-medal- from Mary Archer... Russell Kane, Helen Czerski, had produced in-house such a major winners Sarah Storey, Ellie Simmonds Robin Ince, Brian Cox and Danielle George record Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage exhibition – about a revolutionary new and the Brownlee brothers, before their material. An interview with Andre Geim triumphant homecoming parade across – whose laboratory isolated graphene – Manchester. Other successes included the became the museum's first live streamed group’s Cravings exhibition and the second event, in partnership with BBC Focus (see year of maker weekend MakeFest, while inside back cover for full feature). Sally we featured as the location for BBC Radio MacDonald said: ‘Our museum tells the 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage starring Brian Cox story of how pioneering ideas can change and Robin Ince.

Development of our exciting new gallery continues. MacDonald said: ‘The Special Exhibition Gallery designs are really MANCHESTER stunning – Carmody Groarke are fantastic architects to work with. Their approach is to strip away recent alterations to reveal the beauty of our historic buildings whilst creating a glorious contemporary MARRIES SCIENCE exhibition space.’

The gallery is the first stage in a transformation of the museum site that will see significant investment in its outdoor AND CREATIVITY spaces, new entrances and new galleries. This puts the museum at the heart of the Our Castlefield museum is at the heart of important initiatives area’s regeneration, and of Manchester’s in education and European collaboration growth as a science city.

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DIGITAL AND GAMING DIGITAL AND GAMING

‘An unrivalled opportunity to celebrate the great DIGITAL games created in Yorkshire’ Kathryn Penny, ENERGISES Yorkshire Games Festival director EVERYTHING WE DO

A digital dimension is increasingly at the We also held a ‘hackathon’ in February heart of everything the group does, from to bring together technologists and presenting our collection and scholarship designers to explore the group’s online to transforming how our audiences collection data and present it in new ways. engage with the museums before, during and after their visits. A core focus of this Space ride with Major Tim Above: Astronaut’s view Gaming as a key cultural force year has been beginning to refresh the Step aboard a Soyuz space capsule of Space Descent VR The UK games industry is currently worth with Tim Peake group’s online estate with new websites in the Science Museum’s latest ride, Right and below: $3.8 billion, and 9% of that is based in for the collection and the National Space Descent VR with Tim Peake. As Delegates get hands the Yorkshire and Humber region, so the Science and Media Museum (see page Soyuz tumbles toward Earth from the on consoles at the National Science and Media Museum Yorkshire Games 44). At the same time we’ve started to International Space Station, visitors enjoy Festival, while game was the perfect host for the inaugural explore the potential of virtual reality so a 360-degree view both inside the cabin designer Brenda Yorkshire Games Festival. Over five days audiences may experience the collection and of outer space during the dangerous, Romero meets some in November, 7600 visitors enjoyed of her fans in astonishing new ways. high-speed 400 km journey. At the London workshops, big-screen demos and unveiling of his Soyuz spacecraft Peake unrivalled access to games designers, With Samsung as the founding partner, remarked that the VR experience ‘really writers and developers, all timed to we have also initiated a new, experimental is breathtaking – and that comes from celebrate the 21st anniversary of the strand of activity called the Digital Lab someone who has spent an awful lot of iconic game Worms. Collaborating with through which we have begun to trial new time using VR systems while training’. Bradford College and the University of technologies such as enhanced digitisation Space Descent VR was commissioned by Bradford, the festival created a unique of collection objects and VR. the museum and developed by the team rendezvous for students and key British at Alchemy VR, led by founder Anthony innovators such as software designers Top right: Game The 360-degree view of the Soyuz cabin Geffen, working with us and the European design workshop at Charles Cecil and Gary Napper. on our inside cover was shot using a Space Agency, using Samsung Gear VR the Yorkshire Games Samsung Gear VR camera. Wearing a VR technology. Festival with Fee VIEW THIS Stewart youtu.be/XkwA2IC-VVg headset, you see the complete interior Centre: VIPs try out VR by turning your head. VR way through the maths maze at the Mathematics You can sense maths all around you by gallery opening Nintendo treats for half term Right: Gary Napper, sitting in a vintage aircraft cockpit for an design director on This year the hit Japanese animation and immersive ride exploring the mathematical Alien Isolation video game series Yo-Kai Watch took over principles inherent in the plane’s design. the National Science and Media Museum This prototype VR experience for the for nine days of family activities and Samsung Gear VR takes its inspiration attracted 23,300 visitors. They designed from the experimental 1929 Handley Page their own cardboard game controllers, biplane that forms the iconic centrepiece played the latest game for Nintendo 2DS of Mathematics: The Winton Gallery at and Nintendo 3DS, and met the star the Science Museum (see back cover). mascot Jibanyan. It recently won a MUSE award from the American Alliance of Museums. Other gaming events organised elsewhere within the Science Museum Group included Power UP! at the Science Museum and Play Above: The National Science and Media VIEW THIS It at the Museum of Science and Industry Museum’s new website collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk (see page 49).

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FUNDRAISING FUNDRAISING

‘Our museums’ significant contribution to the international cultural landscape cannot be overstated’ VISITORS Donald Brydon, chairman, Science Museum Group Foundation GIVE MORE GENEROUSLY Top row: Group trustee David Willetts at the Science Museum annual dinner with geneticist Kay Davies and the National Heart and Lung Institute’s Ajit Lalvani... Russell Taylor, CMO Samsung UK and Ireland, with Ian Blatchford at the Mathematics gallery launch THAN EVER Centre row: Rüdiger Grube and Bastian Grunberg of DB Mobility Logistics at the National Railway Museum annual dinner with museum director Paul Kirkman... Biotechnologist Craig Venter addresses the Science BEFORE Museum annual dinner 2016 During the past year giving by the average Science Festival – the most popular in visitor to our five museums rose to its England – exemplifies the importance of highest level ever, more than £2,895,000 our loyal, long-term partners. At this year’s in total, with a £200,000 boost from Gift event, Siemens’ executive management Aid donations. ‘We are hugely grateful for board kindly volunteered its time to deliver the generosity of all those who donated science busking. The University of Salford when they came to our museums,’ said hosted the Science Jam, an interactive Lydia Lee, director of development. experience for festival visitors. The support from Haydale Limited and The While the group is delighted with this Granada Foundation contributed greatly munificence, it is also proud to have to the success of Wonder Materials: renewed group-wide relationships with Graphene and Beyond (see inside back major funders such as the Wellcome Trust cover), which was a huge draw for and the Heritage Lottery Fund. It remains delegates visiting the 2016 EuroScience essential for all our museums to continue Open Forum, the continent’s largest to forge new philanthropic and corporate interdisciplinary science meeting. funding relationships and, in doing so, we are grateful for the support of the In West Yorkshire, we have been working Science Museum Group Foundation. closely with our long-standing partners Bradford College, the University Donald Brydon, chairman of the of Bradford and Bradford Council, Foundation, says: ‘The collections we hold successfully debuting the Yorkshire Games are a national resource to be cherished, Festival at the National Science and Media celebrated and built on for the enrichment Museum. Widescreen Weekend hosted its of our society. Our exhibitions and 20th edition with the support of the British outreach programmes inspire curiosity Film Institute, and we collaborated for the in our visitors.’ third year running with the International Moving Image Society on the Student At the Science Museum we have worked Widescreen Film of the Year Competition. with patrons, philanthropic individuals and several new foundations: Lloyd’s Register The National Railway Museum has kept Foundation, which supported Our Lives in on track important partnerships with Data and is the biggest charitable donor Virgin Trains East Coast, sponsor of the in the world, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Flying Scotsman season, and Network Foundation, which supported a Science Rail. An exciting new initiative is Future Museum Lates event. We are delighted Engineers, where corporate sponsorship to have welcomed six new corporate from Angel Trains, Eversholt Rail and sponsors and are pleased to announce Porterbrook helped our visitors to think a strong commitment to the museum’s about how they could shape the railways mission from our long-term supporter of tomorrow. Our Future Forum thought Left to right: Statoil guests Rachel Goodfellow- Dunster, Oliver Dunster, Emily Martin, Dominic Martin GSK, with a £2 million gift for the leadership sessions have proved popular, with Elizabeth Phipps of our development team at forthcoming Medicine Galleries. providing the rail industry with a neutral the Science Museum annual dinner... HLF trustee and trusted platform for discussions about Jenny Cousins explores the Science Museum’s Robots exhibition... Mathematics funder Steve At the Museum of Science and Industry, the direction of travel of this multi-billion- Mobbs at Robots launch the continuing support for the Manchester pound enterprise.

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GROUP-WIDE VOLUNTEERING GROUP-WIDE VOLUNTEERING

Mingling with visitors in London At the Science Museum volunteers have ‘Developing a group- given more than 8,000 hours over the wide digital system for KEY ROLES FOR THE past year, delivering tours and object- volunteer information, handling sessions to reach 13,500 visitors. and making sure it works The volunteer team is now at an all-time high of 185, thanks to new roles such uniquely for all sites, has ARDENT VOLUNTEER as the event ambassadors who assist been very rewarding’ with our ever-popular Lates evenings. Tony Oldfield, York volunteer ‘Volunteering at the Science Museum is a Building on the success of the Cosmonauts satisfying way to contribute to society’ engagement volunteers, a team of nearly 70 stepped up to move among visitors Luis Bercho, volunteer and winner of the Team Player to Robots to demonstrate many of the award at the Science Museum 2017 Volunteer Awards working exhibits and showcase the handling collection. We also welcomed the first commercial event volunteers who contributed nearly 2000 hours to support Power UP!

‘I have found new a respect New skills in Manchester Stars of widescreen and understanding for the With around 160 volunteers, this year The National Science and Media Museum’s historical and scientific the Museum of Science and Industry festival volunteers played a key role in the celebrated having a more diverse intake rip-roaring success of two key events: value of the collection’ than ever before. The museum played a the Widescreen Weekend and the Yorkshire Cameron Tailford, Bradford volunteer, key part in the city’s Volunteering Games Festival. Our library volunteers who was recently offered a PhD for Wellbeing scheme, which helped and Lewis Morley Archive volunteers studentship, helped by this experience participants gain work experience, new continue to provide critical routine York’s art collection surveyed A core of regulars play a major role a condition survey of our art collection, skills, improved health and wellbeing, support to museum staff, cataloguing our Nothing makes for better volunteers than in the operation of the museums in and John Watling completed a 20-year and concluded in an event celebrating Kodak albums and helping us care for the a passion for the field they dive into, York and Shildon, for example as our project to locate and catalogue drawings its success at Manchester Town Hall. museum’s collection, while also helping whether that’s railways, media, industry or information-point team, as volunteer in our collection about the locomotive In October museum director Sally to deliver the monthly Reminiscence pure science. The dedication and passion guards accompanying steam rides, and works of the Great Eastern Railway. MacDonald and Mary Archer were joined Sessions and weekly Silver Screenings. of our teams across the group has been running the popular miniature railway by Michael Bailey, president of the Friends exceptional in the past extraordinarily which generated almost £200,000 this Association, to unveil a commemorative busy year. The National Railway Museum year. Additionally, volunteers regularly Clockwise, from top: Manchester Wonder Materials plaque to celebrate the valuable boasts the biggest team of volunteers contribute to the restoration and volunteer Javiera Leemhuis helps visitors get to contributions made by the friends of the grips with graphene... Craig Shaw volunteers at the and this year nearly 300 gave 41,000 cleaning of the rolling stock. National Railway Museum... At the 2017 Volunteer museum since their inception in 1983. hours providing critical support at special Awards two York volunteers, Brian Gardener Volunteers also took on more responsibility events, such as the Stunts, Speed and Behind the scenes, the conservation (second from left) and Tony Oldfield (third from as champions at the Wonder Materials Above: Object-handling in Information Age with right) were specially mentioned... Bradford Style season and the interactive team partnered with the University of Science Museum volunteers Mike Shannon and volunteer Cameron Tailford encounters exhibition, providing visitors with exhibition Future Engineers. York, recruiting students to undertake Luis Bercho a 1980s-vintage Doctor Who Cyberman guidance and information in the gallery.

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ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITIONS

‘A feast for the imagination’ CARING FOR THE The Observer on Wonderlab: The Statoil Gallery WOUNDED MILLIONS

’One of the best During the First World War, 10 million School), who said: ‘The students (who educational visits we combatants were killed, but twice that are not normally easy to impress) were have ever been on‘ number were wounded and millions were awestruck by elements of the day yet in left disabled, disfigured or traumatised by others they could let their hair down and John Linkins, Batley Grammar School their experiences. For medical personnel enjoy the “fun” side of learning.’ on the front line, on ambulance trains and on the domestic front, the challenges Parallels with today's conflicts Above: Ambulance Trains at the National Railway were immense. In June 2016 the Science Museum opened Museum explores how the wounded of the First Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care, a World War were transported and cared for Millions of the sick and wounded were new exhibition marking the centenary of STARCHITECT SPACES, Below: Conserving the Science Museum’s First World War collection transported from the front by train to the Battle of the Somme and the enormous hospitals across Europe and the UK. challenges for medical practices and Ambulance Trains is a new permanent technologies that resulted from this new PREMIER PARTNERS exhibition at the National Railway Museum kind of industrialised warfare. At the exploring this untold story through the centre of the exhibition, which runs until In 2016 we opened spectacular new spaces An equally astute appointment of a world- Competitive collaborations continue in experiences of those who travelled on January 2018 and was supported by the as part of the Science Museum’s ambitious renowned ‘starchitect’ saw the maths future projects involving HAT Projects, Dow board. A 1907 railway carriage of the Heritage Lottery Fund, is a remarkable Masterplan led by Karen Livingstone – all graduate Zaha Hadid breathing her vision Jones Architects, Duggan Morris Architects type used in ambulance trains has been collection of historic objects from the brought to life by the most inspirational into Mathematics: The Winton Gallery and WilkinsonEyre, who are developing transformed into an immersive re-creation Science Museum’s First World War medical names in international architecture. The (see back cover). When it opened in the world’s premier medicine galleries in of these ‘hospitals on wheels’, inspired collections, illustrating the stories of the Architects’ Journal praised our continuing December as the late Dame Zaha’s only London. In Manchester, Carmody Groarke by the moving accounts of patients, wounded and those who cared for them. support of both emerging and established permanent public museum exhibition is setting a new level of quality for both nurses and medical orderlies. One visitor firms which ‘demonstrates that in certain anywhere in the world, mathematics our estate and our exhibitions by perfectly commented: ‘The quality of the restoration The Wounded exhibition team also worked sectors there remains an appetite for became global news. marrying innovative design with the project itself has been more than matched closely with two UK charities that were innovation and creativity that eclipses any historic listed buildings at the Museum of by the creativity that has gone into formed during the First World War, today misplaced perception of risk’. To cap it all, The Science Museum Group’s first Science and Industry (see page 16). bringing the story alive ... I found myself known as Combat Stress and Blind Veterans both our maths gallery and Dana Research Masterplan project to open outside London completely absorbed in it.’ UK. The team also participated with recent Centre have won RIBA London Awards. is the Ab Rogers-designed Wonderlab for veterans diagnosed with PTSD to co-create Bradford’s National Science and Media A secondary schools programme, including parts of the exhibition, both to draw out As specialists in the playful aspects of Museum (see page 8), where it offers a an innovative theatrical experience and parallels with medical challenges faced the public realm, the architects Muf greater understanding of sound and interactive show, delved into the complex today and to share the experiences of worked closely with the museum to design light in a space that provokes discovery, running of the ambulance trains and soldiers in more recent conflicts. the new permanent gallery Wonderlab: discussion and hands-on activity. It also the lives of the staff and passengers. The Statoil Gallery. Our principal interactive hosts the first ‘Science on a Sphere’ The activities have proved popular with VIEW THIS space wowed design critics by making its outside the capital, showing the dynamic Above: The vision expressed by the architects students and teachers such as John firstworldwar.nrm.org.uk architecture an exhibit in itself (see page 12). surface of the Sun. Muf for Wonderlab was crucial to its success Linkins (head of history at Batley Grammar blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/tag/wounded

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LEARNING: A GROUP ENDEAVOUR LEARNING: A GROUP ENDEAVOUR

‘The kids knew what to expect, they were genuinely looking forward to the day because they had seen the quality of the presentation in school’ Teacher

Right: STEM ambassadors in our northern A group-wide funding opportunity Party on with the family powerhouse... Experiments at the Chemistry Bar in We are now in the third year of being Our newly recruited business manager Wonderlab... Google’s ‘A Day at the Museum’ event at the National Science and Media Museum a funded partner for Google’s ‘A Day for learning has been busy creating at the Museum’ project where primary a novel children’s party event for the schoolchildren meet real scientists with Science Museum. Families can book a fun IGNITING CURIOSITY the aim of challenging stereotypes. We educational experience for their children A northern STEM powerhouse have extended this across the entire and friends in one of the coolest places The group now runs one of the largest group, to target schools who haven’t to celebrate getting older. Each party networks of STEM ambassadors outside visited us before. generates a contribution to the museum London from the Museum of Science and we will be rolling out more across ON A GRAND SCALE the group. and Industry. In mid-2016 the national administration and funding were Focus on the group’s expertise in informal learning restructured and existing contract-holders were invited to bid for bigger regional contracts. We saw the opportunity to For the UK economy to thrive, policy- the UK’s learning ecosystem. In the past partnership with King’s College London create a STEM powerhouse by uniting all makers, industrial leaders and educators financial year we received another record- and BP, is due to complete at the end of three of our northern museums to make a agree that future generations must be breaking total of 612,000 visitors 2017. Our other research-into-practice bid for the trans-Pennine area – Greater informed, enthusiastic and skilled in in booked education groups. project is Building Bridges, a partnership Manchester, West Yorkshire and North science, technology, engineering and between the Science Museum and Shell, Yorkshire, encompassing over 2500 maths (STEM). The Science Museum Research into practice also in its fifth year. The project sets out ambassadors. The strength of our Group has a distinctive and critical role The group is pioneering the use of 'science to inspire young people from diverse museums as a group enabled us to submit in addressing this priority as a national capital' as a concept – a person’s backgrounds, encouraging them to a strong bid which won the contract and global leader in STEM education. Our scientific literacy, their familiarity with explore STEM subjects and career paths. late last year, and new staff are now in impact as the most visited set of museums science in daily life and some appreciation place and working hard to build up the in the UK by school groups, combined of science’s worth – and this lies behind ambassador network across the region. with strengths in teachers’ professional our efforts to enrich people’s lives as development and millions of public visitors, well as enhance their contributions to Above: The Building Bridges project gets VIEW THIS places us in a unique position within society. Enterprising Science, a five-year students hands-on with STEM msimanchester.org.uk/stem

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LEARNING: A GROUP ENDEAVOUR LEARNING: A GROUP ENDEAVOUR REACHING OUT, EXPANDING ACCESS FOR ALL This year the Science Museum again exceeded all previous records to welcome 460,300 booked education visitors. We remain the most visited museum in the UK by school groups

Reaching out into your community Website tests your child’s curiosity Accessibility for all ‘It is especially nice to see The group also delivered training to 622 What would life be like without electricity? Our programme for young visitors on the teachers and educators, and 291 scientists Can you lift something heavier than autistic spectrum and their families – other adults engage with and STEM experts who work with student yourself? These are among Seven generously supported by Lord and Lady our children and explain and family audiences. We have reached Questions to Explore Before You Leave Wolfson's foundation – goes from strength concepts and take their 88,700 children beyond the Science Primary School, a collaboration between to strength. Wonderlab: The Statoil understanding of the Museum through outreach visits to the Science Museum, TES and the Arts Gallery proved extremely popular with the schools, festivals, community groups and Council designed to provide inspiration audience for Early Birds (for ages 6–15) world further on’ corporate partners. This included a for cross-curricular learning. We see that and we offered Night Owls (for ages 16– Home educator second year of Science Weekenders at imagination is a foundation of both arts 25) for the second year running. During the three Butlin’s sites as part of their schedule and sciences, and so the videos on the year 1400 visitors came to these events. that attracts 100,000 visitors each year, project website invite young people to as well as taking part in high-profile events help answer big questions using their For our deaf and British Sign Language such as the Shell Eco Marathon at the curiosity, creative thinking and problem- adult audiences we tried an innovative former Olympic Park, the Royal Institution’s solving skills through STEM, arts and approach to attract greater numbers: we Girls in STEM event and the Farnborough humanities subjects. devised a training programme for our three Air Show. The team visit about 150 schools deaf presenters that would enable them to across London and the UK. write their own tours. This has been hugely

successful and reached more visitors ‘Flash mob’ in the museum including many repeat visitors. Our BSL In May we surprised Science Museum programmes attract 1200 visitors across visitors with an impromptu performance several platforms each year. of parts of Holst’s The Planets by a 90-piece orchestra made up of Royal TEDxLondon College of Music students. This ‘flash mob’ In 2016 we held the TEDxLondon series. was the latest event in a long museum Hosted by Lauren Laverne, two events in tradition of exploring music and sound. our IMAX featured speakers ranging from The film of the event has been watched Al Murray to Stephen Hawking. Both events 36,000 times and continues to delight sold out instantly. The live stream footage audiences around the world. was viewed nearly 3000 times during the event, while 1000 tweets on the day reached over 3 million accounts and the talks have been watched online 300,000 times to date.

Opposite: Royal College of Music students bring Holst’s The Planets to the Science Museum in a ‘flash mob’ This page, from top: Pupils from Christ Church Academy, Bradford, at the National Science and VIEW THIS Media Museum... Outreach weekender at Butlin’s... tes.com/7questionstoexplore Comedian Steve Coogan speaks at TEDxLondon

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LEARNING: A GROUP ENDEAVOUR LEARNING: A GROUP ENDEAVOUR

BRADFORD ADOPTS BUSKING Instant info for families Busking enabled our explainers at the National Science and Media Museum to tailor the learning experience to wide- ranging audiences during the summer. By roaming all galleries and public spaces armed with iPads, loaded with apps, games and quizzes, they could provide a more inclusive and flexible service for visitors.

Balancing the gore kids love The sheep’s eye dissection workshop has provided the perfect balance between gore and science, which kids love. The learning programme for education booked groups now enables them to experience science in ways they wouldn’t in the classroom. Coincidentally, the number of education groups grew this year from 30,200 in 2015–16 to 33,600.

Growing new audiences The pilot Bedtime Stories welcomed 1500 ‘Wonderlab lets teachers children and parents in the hours after do what can’t be done school. We have partnered with Police in the classroom. This is Camps, a school holiday programme learning by stealth’ established by the emergency services to support young people identified as being Vicky Clifton, head of learning at the at risk of antisocial behaviour during the National Science and Media Museum school holidays. This year we welcomed 1200 children from the camp.

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IN YORK FUTURE ENGINEERS MEET MANCHESTER THRILLS THROUGH STORIES from the University of Strathclyde, in THE PROFESSIONALS The tale of British aviators Jack Alcock Glasgow. Two more firsts: the explainer Focusing on the E of STEM, an ambitious and Arthur Brown making the first non- team took to the 1830 Express steam ride, programme to showcase engineering at stop transatlantic flight in 1919 is one of while tinkers, tailors, crafters and coders the National Railway Museum has been the immersive stories for the young being took over MakeFest, run solely by the devised by our new head of learning told by the learning team in Manchester’s museum for the first time. and events, Lynne Minett, who signals Museum of Science and Industry. So the integration of local learning into our unveiling the new show area in the Air Accompanying the Wonder Materials group-wide strategy. The museum piloted and Space Hall was an important move to exhibition, a large breakout area of its Future Engineers programme to add transport our visitors across the world and hands-on activities makes the graphene contemporary appeal for schools and through space and time. exhibition engaging and accessible for families. This explored current railway Key Stage 3 children. engineering topics through hands- In Seeing Sounds, students explore on events and meeting rail industry the concept of sound waves in a cross- professionals. Across Key Stages 2 and curricular, creative context, recording 3 age groups, 17 schools and 640 pupils engine sounds and mixing them into music, attended, as did families during October before blasting them through a Rubens half term. Drawn from 12 different rail tube – a flaming visualisation of sound Above: The Future Engineers programme at the companies, 40 engineers contributed 340 waves. The Pi: Platform for Investigation National Railway Museum hours. Meanwhile the learning programme left the museum for the first time to visit Opposite: Enterprising Science course for teachers at our Shildon museum, Locomotion has the Manchester Arndale, where visitors at the Museum of Science and Industry... Pi: Platform for Investigation at Manchester Arndale... Bradford’s expanded to reach adults with learning could swap shopping for interactive busking explainers use iPads on-gallery when disabilities and senior citizens. experiments with nanoscience researchers chatting to visitors

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ROBOTS

‘These mesmerising mechanical creations from the past 500 years reveal so much about humanity’s hopes, fears, dreams and delusions’ Ian Blatchford, director of the Science Museum Group

ROBOT

Four years in the making, the Robots exhibition opened in February to rave reviews. The Guardian ROUNDUP pronounced Robots as a ‘trove of delights’, The Times called it ‘a bold and compelling show’ and WIRED praised the ‘effort and thought that has been put into the Robots collection’. By the end of April almost 100,000 people had visited the exhibition, which runs until September 2017. It is booked for WOWS THE five years of international touring

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ROBOTS HUMANOIDS UPSTAGE THE HUMANS

Our Robots exhibition explores humanity’s In May 2016, the Science Museum ‘Our workshop team are 500-year quest to reimagine ourselves – launched a crowd-funding campaign not through paintings or sculpture but as through Kickstarter to recreate Eric for the world experts in machines arising from religious belief, the the Robots exhibition. Eric was the UK’s robots after installing industrial revolution, popular culture and first robot, built in 1928 by Captain William this exhibition – nowhere dreams about the future. H Richards and Alan Reffell, and was a else can beat us’ talking, moving mechanical person who From the most significant collection of amazed crowds across the UK and the USA. Steve Long, head of gallery services humanoids ever assembled, curator Ben Then he mysteriously disappeared. Thanks Russell contrasts the attributes of the to the generosity of 861 backers from six most important: ‘Cygan epitomises across the world, the Kickstarter campaign VIEW THIS everything you dream a robot to be, while raised £50,000 in a month, enabling the sciencemuseum.org.uk/robots Terminator T-800 combines all your worst museum to bring Eric and a second robot, sciencemuseum.org.uk/eric robot nightmares brought to life. The Inkha, back to life. Naturally, both star blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/eric-goes-on-display youtube.com/watch?v=UjgDvvmekk4 Automaton lathe is a 364-part jigsaw that prominently in our exhibition. sciencemuseum.org.uk/last-supper took 16 weeks for us to rebuild. Shadow Biped is one of the first robots outside A thought-provoking event programme Japan that could stand and take a step. running in parallel with Robots helped ROSA is a robot whose design intimately attract a number of new and returning mirrors human anatomy and RoboThespian, funders. These included past partners, the robot actor, is the only one you will such as Heritage Lottery Fund, EPSRC, meet which speaks Klingon.’ the Swiss Embassy and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and new funders, including livery companies and charitable foundations. Pepper, shown above Right: In Robots Revealed, the University of at the press launch Hertfordshire’s robot football team (The Bold of Robots, is an Hearts) practised for the 2017 Robocup Later in 2017 Robots moves north to autonomous talking tournament in Japan while robotics engineers headline the Manchester Science Festival. humanoid robot which gained valuable insights can be programmed to The Last Supper: An atmospheric robotic art perceive emotions and installation by kinetic artist and sculptor Giles adapt its behaviour to Walker featured 12 robotic figures drinking, the mood of the humans smoking and discussing sin, forgiveness and around it guilt as part of a 13-minute performance Robo-host fronts comedy quiz: Paranoid Androids and Electric Sheep was the world’s first comedy quiz show to be hosted by a ‘real- life’ robot and put special guest RoboThespian centre stage in our IMAX theatre

Another first in robot surgery: Imperial College’s Roger Kneebone hosted a rare treat as robotic surgery pioneers Ara Darzi and nurse practitioner Shirley Martin together recreated the UK’s first keyhole surgical procedure which used the da Vinci robot (pictured), first performed in 2000 Above: Robots lead curator Ben Russell with artist Giles Walker, who rebuilt Eric, Britain’s first robot... The graceful Silver Swan, a unique musical automaton from 1773 loaned to the exhibition by the Bowes Museum in County Durham

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MANCHESTER SCIENCE FESTIVAL WIDESCREEN FESTIVAL

‘We can bring science evoking strong passions to a huge audience A POTENT PLATFORM thanks to our alliance of partnerships’ Antonio Benitez, FOR WIDESCREEN TALENT Manchester Science Festival director

The 20th Widescreen Weekend festival connected the past, present and future of cinema technology through a unique programme of film screenings and guest events in the Pictureville Cinema at Bradford’s National Science and Media Museum. The festival projection team were challenged for another year to exhibit a range of film formats from 70 mm and 4K digital to the skilfully synchronised three-projector Cinerama.

The widescreen programme included two new Cinerama restorations – the world premiere of Cinerama’s Russian Adventure and the European premiere of The Golden Head, plus an interview with its star Jess Conrad. Celluloid titles included Aliens, Vertigo and The Agony and the Ecstasy in 70 mm and a three-strip presentation of This is Cinerama. Bond girl Jenny Hanley appeared in conversation before a screening of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and the festival debated widescreen cinema in the age of VR.

TENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY This year’s festival introduced a student day with a low-priced pass and a programme to suit both delegates and FOR 136,000 GUESTS undergraduate cinematographers. This day incorporated our third Student Widescreen Film of the Year Competition Cake, chocolate and magic played their of the high street’. A live performance and showed an impressive selection of parts in the tenth birthday celebrations by Public Service Broadcasting of their student films from a record 510 entries. for the Manchester Science Festival – all album The Race for Space was preceded One of the finalist films in the 2016 in the name of scientific experimentation, by a question-and-answer session with student competition, A Love Story, of course. And as the best birthday gift Jodrell Bank’s Tim O’Brien, and an original recently won the BAFTA for best short for the team behind the festival, visitor art installation commission, Cloud Crash, animation, proving the occasion to be a numbers reached a record high of was inspired by data from the Natural potent platform for emerging talent. 136,000 attendances by families and Environment Research Council. adults. The 125 bold and playful events The festival attracted many international across the city involved 1000 scientists, There was a performance by the Robot guests and delegates travelling from as artists and researchers. Orchestra while elsewhere food lovers far as California and Melbourne. learned how microorganisms add flavour Admissions for Widescreen Weekend Astronaut Tim Peake blazed a trail by giving to their meals, and a special screening of continued to grow this year, up by 3% eager family visitors to his sold-out show Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, compared with 2015. the chance to quiz him on his weeks spent complete with afternoon tea, saw group in space. The event was also live streamed director of external affairs Roger Highfield across the museum site and online. Over explain the science behind the magic. the 11 days of the main festival, headline This year’s festival was supported by activities included the Chronarium – a headline sponsor Siemens, educational sleep lab in the Manchester Arndale, sponsor the University of Salford and Top: Director of BCB Radio Mary Dowson in which investigated how shoppers could sponsors Waters and United Utilities. conversation with Bond girl Jenny Hanley reset their circadian rhythms and which Clockwise, from top: CBBC presenter Ricky Boleto Above: A panel of experts debate the pros and poses for a selfie with Tim Peake... The Robot cons of virtual reality cinema the Manchester Evening News praised VIEW THIS Orchestra... The Chronarium sleep lab at the Left: Cultural historian Christopher Frayling for ‘allowing visitors to ditch the madness manchestersciencefestival.com Manchester Arndale introduces The Agony and the Ecstasy

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SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARS HOME IN ON OUR RESEARCH CENTRE Tim Boon celebrates 20 years growing a meeting of minds

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2016 was the year that the Science Museum’s research enterprise truly became visible, via its new home at the Dana Research Centre and Library. In addition to a stream of seminars, workshops and smaller conferences, we held two major three-day events: Alternative Histories of Electronic Music in April, and Artefacts in October. The electronic music conference, the fruit of our partnership in an AHRC-funded research project conducted by James Mooney at the University of Leeds, featured three packed days of papers and performances, contributing insights to the Museum’s planning for a future music and science exhibition. A special issue of the journal Organised Sound in 2017 is the most visible outcome of this meeting, which has established a substantial research community that is already new science museum in New York City We have now established a virtuous cycle planning new activities. and shows scenes from the Science in which the different strands of research Museum, Musée des Arts et Métiers in activity mutually support each other: the The 21st meeting of Artefacts brought Paris, Deutsches Museum in Munich, and research projects, fellows and students not museum colleagues and scholars from the Technical Museum, Vienna. The new only generate fresh thinking for museum across the world to discuss the theme piece also featured at the Manchester displays, but also lead to conferences ‘Understanding Use: Science and Science Festival. that, in due course, produce articles for Technology Objects and Users’. This the Science Museum Group Journal. The growing collaboration, initially an alliance The research department has welcomed journal in its turn exemplifies the sectoral of the Science Museum Group with the the first two Wellcome Trust secondment leadership that the group seeks to provide Deutsches Museum and Smithsonian fellowships; Jo Hedesan and Ayesha to technical museums worldwide. We Institution, has met in different museums Nathoo have contributed their historical welcome contributions from scholars, every year since the first gathering at the expertise to planned future exhibitions curators, conservators and educators who Science Museum in 1996. Every year new on, respectively, the Sun and ideas of share the group’s broad interests in the museums want to join, and around half of immortality. They have become part of role of today’s museums and collections. the meetings produce a highly illustrated the research community at the research volume of essays that thematically centre, interacting with our staff and Opposite: Collaborative doctoral partnership illuminate science collections worldwide. AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral students Gemma Almond, Caitlin Doherty, Jacob Ward, Caroline Avery and Tom Ritchie pose with students. props related to their studies The conference saw the premiere This page, clockwise: The Science Museum ‘Our museums in Manchester, Bradford and York performance of Jean-Philippe Calvin’s The research and public history Group Journal, freely available online... Ayesha Nathoo, who is researching a future exhibition on have created our own northern powerhouse – new score for the 1928 film The Building department has launched an Annual immortality... Recently published Science Museum and our research centre in London is driving our and Operation of Industrial Museums, the Report in which our research community books... Electronic tide modelling machine, outcome of an artist-in-residence project – fellows, associates, staff and students invented by Shizuo Ishiguro, the subject of an reputation for research’ ‘object biography’ article in SMGJ... Premiere funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The film – write about the many exciting research performance of the new score for The Building Dame Mary Archer, chairman of the group’s Board of Trustees was made by proponents of a proposed projects under way across the group. and Operation of Industrial Museums

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SCHOLARSHIP GLIMPSES OF OUR MUSEUMS’ HERITAGE

Travel as universal leveller The National Railway Museum initiated a centre grew tenfold year on year – a huge new academic collaboration this year. An success for the collections team, who award from the Yorkshire Country House have worked hard to attract higher- Partnership and White Rose Consortium education groups. enabled Anna Geurts of the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century The explainer explained Studies to undertake scoping research This year Ceri Pitches, one of four on travellers’ visits to country houses. collaborative doctoral students at the Examining guidebooks from the 1830s National Science and Media Museum, through to the 1980s, Anna and museum completed her PhD. Co-supervised by research fellow Oliver Betts found that Michael Terwey at the museum and Mark from the very beginnings of the railways Taylor-Batty at the University of Leeds, country houses had been prime visitor Ceri’s project explored the role of the locations for rail travellers. The research explainer – the members of learning demonstrated that, far from being ‘high teams across the Science Museum Group culture’ and exclusive, these attractions who give talks, demonstrations and lead were quickly marketed as of interest activities on the floor every day. Ceri has to all through cheap and popular texts, focused on the ways performance skills reshaping our ideas of cultural tourism. and training have been passed on between successive generations. She has traced Manchester’s rival to Kensington their lineage back through the museum There were celebrations for the Museum theatre companies of the 1990s, the of Science and Industry with the news that staffing of the first LaunchPad gallery in collaborative PhD student Erin Beeston the Science Museum in the 1980s and the was awarded the University of Manchester guide lecturers at the Science Museum University History Prize 2016 for an essay in the mid-20th century. Key aspects titled ‘A science museum “to rival South of the explainer’s role reach back to SPOTLIGHT ON CHEMISTRY Kensington”: curating the “university the pioneering science communicators city” and establishing the North Western Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday in Research by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) shows that Museum of Science and Industry’. Erin said: the 19th century. most people aren’t aware of the huge variety of what chemists, ‘I was very interested to find real passion chemical engineers and others in this field do. So we’re teaming for the heritage of the city and region.’ up with the RSC to use our world-class collections – spanning Erin is studying in the university’s Centre This page: The museum explainer’s role has experimental chemistry, industrial chemistry, plastics and for the History of Science, Technology always required performance skills and here John biochemistry – to raise awareness and understanding of the role and Medicine, with whom the museum has Freeborn is giving a lecture demonstration in the and value of chemistry and the chemical sciences in society. Science Museum in 1971... PhD student Erin Beeston This page: A British Railways poster from 1956 exemplifies findings from research by Anna Geurts and a valuable working relationship. Overall, giving a talk at Manchester’s Museum of Science Keep an eye out for more from Sophie Waring, the Science Oliver Betts… Anna Geurts examines reading lights in the National Railway Museum collection group visits to the museum’s collections and Industry Museum’s new curator of chemistry, courtesy of the RSC.

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MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY TOMORROW'S WORLD PIONEER’S CAT BRINGS IN THE TODDLERS Our Manchester team want to catch them young

The question of how we attract people who made an emergency supply of nappies and The project was launched at a Tiny might feel museums are ‘not for them’ is baby wipes available at the front desk. The Takeover on 25 November 2016, a special not a new one – but recently Manchester’s explainer team tested and piloted sensory day focused on pre-schoolers. To ensure Museum of Science and Industry play blanket bags and treasure baskets, the widest possible participation the team decided to put together a team to tackle and two ‘play packs’ for toddlers – the contacted Sure Start centres, meaning the problem. They focused on Greater Power Pack to adventure around the Power families attended who had never been Manchester pre-schoolers, an audience Hall, including an oil can and train driver’s before, and many of the regular families segment that accounts for 13% of our visits hat, and the Pilot Pack for mini pilots loved the new spaces and activities. and includes a high percentage of visitors visiting Air and Space with a mini Lucky Feedback after the event was positive, and from less advantaged backgrounds. Jim, the toy cat which flying pioneers demonstrated that by working together it Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown took on was possible to make families with young Bearing this research in mind, the team the first non-stop transatlantic flight children feel welcome – work which will be made My Den, a space attached to our in 1919. The visitor experience team built on by museum teams in years to come. HOW TO SURVIVE Textiles gallery, into a welcoming place for were instrumental in this project, from these families, installed a soft play area in developing a resource-pack lending the interactive Experiment! gallery, added system to collating feedback to cajoling Below: A young flying ace enjoys the Air and Space baby-change tables to bathrooms, and small kids into giving train sets back. Hall with his own Lucky Jim toy at an Experitots event CONNECTIVITY

‘Big data is still new but it Big data is having an ever greater impact created to help researchers understand is already revolutionising on our lives, from making our daily vast collections of data. Other highlights the world around us’ commute run more smoothly to improving included some of the new products the design of children’s toys. With 90% developed to help individuals protect Sheldon Paquin, exhibition developer of all available human data having been their data, such as a Cryptophone which recorded in the past two years, the prevents access to your mobile phone Science Museum exhibition Our Lives in and paint that blocks Wi-Fi signals. Data explored some of the diverse and transformative ways that information is Our Lives in Data was generously being collected, analysed and used, and supported by Lloyd’s Register Foundation considered the consequences of living in a (principal funder), PwC (major sponsor) more connected world. and Microsoft (associate sponsor). We were delighted to bring these new partners The display in the new Tomorrow's World on board during the year as our work gallery – rebranded to mark a partnership complements their strategic priorities. with the BBC, Royal Society, Open University and Wellcome – also examined Fashion meets science the crucial role of big data in medical A display of Helen Storey’s unique Dress science. Human DNA sequencing first took For Our Time in August used fashion and about 13 years to complete but is now done data science along with a decommissioned in just two days. An example of a modern UN refugee tent as an artistic interpretation DNA sequencer on display is helping the of the vast numbers involved in refugee 100,000 Genomes Project to uncover the migration around the globe. causes of rare diseases and cancer.

Top: Our Lives in Data’s interactive quiz asks visitors Visitors could also test facial recognition how they think data should and shouldn’t be used software and see new virtual reality tools Left: Helen Storey and her Dress For Our Time

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COLLECTION AND CONSERVATION COLLECTION AND CONSERVATION

New era for digitisation ‘A few weeks ago I went down to the To meet the challenge of getting most basement of our stores at Blythe House, of the collection online, the group has a labyrinth of rooms. Most of this is MANY COLLECTIONS appointed a new digitisation manager, hidden away. To be able to open that up Adrian Hine. He leads newly created and make it accessible to the whole national teams covering documentation world really excites me.’ CREATE ONE of the collection and imaging, which are expected to grow over the next few years In the photo studio, manager Kira Zumkley as digitisation projects take place. and her team have been experimenting with enhanced digital photography. GLOBAL RESOURCE ‘Traditionally digitisation was thinking Objects in the Robots exhibition have been about our own internal needs to catalogue photographed from each of 360 degrees, and know about the objects, archives and resulting in a rotating animation. ‘The Across the group, this has been the first full year of pictures,’ Hine says. ‘Increasingly it’s about challenge was to switch to thinking about implementing the bold decision to manage the collections making that knowledge available to the a rotational image that has to look good outside world. We have to make our in all three dimensions,’ Zumkley says. as a single resource. Already, sharing skills and expertise database records consumable and relevant. This kind of imaging will be a feature Clockwise, from top: Digitisation manager Adrian between sites is producing real wins, with colleagues We’re adding good-quality images, and in of future projects. Hine... Panorama for VR app of the stunning new Mathematics gallery, a superb showcase for our working more closely than ever before the future 3D images, to give the public a collection... Conservators Emily Yates and Sophie different impression of our objects. Oelman prepare objects for the Robots exhibition

Collection website goes live over a year a hardworking team has put for non-commercial purposes thanks to Anybody with an internet connection can together the new site. ‘This is the first time generous Creative Commons licences, now read the notebooks of computing that everything has been together in one and there are links to buy prints or license pioneer Charles Babbage, following the place,’ says John Stack, digital director. images commercially from the group’s launch of the Science Museum Group ‘It’s really fast, the pictures are big and Science & Society Picture Library. Only a Collection website. Accessible online for beautiful, and we will continue to build on fraction of our vast collection is available the first time, the Babbage Papers contain this, adding new features and functionality.’ in this first web release and speeding up rich historical evidence including detailed digitisation of the collections is vital. The plans for the mathematician’s Analytical The new site makes it easy to search or website infrastructure has been designed Engine. A reconstruction of Babbage’s browse for objects and archives, from to scale up to cover millions of records, but Difference Engine No. 2, built by the early Kodak Brownie cameras to the making more of the collection accessible Science Museum in the 1980s, has proved iconic steam locomotive Mallard. ‘It’s an online will be an ongoing task. a star on display, and evidence of the outstanding and well-presented resource,’ viability of his original plans. comments Marius Kwint, reader in visual culture at the University of Portsmouth. Above: The new Science Museum Group Collection The collection website forms a central VIEW THIS website, here showing one of Babbage’s models for plank of the group’s digital strategy. In just Images and data can be creatively reused collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk his Difference Engine No. 1

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COLLECTION AND CONSERVATION COLLECTION AND CONSERVATION

‘Increasingly digitisation is about making knowledge available to the A JIGSAW PUZZLE outside world. We have to make our database consumable’ FOR CONSERVATORS Adrian Hine, group digitisation manager

Conservation teams across the group Conservation, all with the generous five museums occupy significant time. In Bradford, painstaking work to remove Stephenson was conserved by University Clockwise: Metalwork specialist Julia Tauber and continue to support increasingly ambitious support of our patrons. In Manchester, 600 objects, including harmful adhesive tape from a photograph of Lincoln student William Bratley, Robots curator Ben Russell with the Automaton lathe... Student intern Anjali Jain assists with the exhibition projects. A highlight of the very large early computers and electrical album exemplifies the work undertaken on providing him with invaluable practical decant of objects from the old first-floor displays year was the reconstruction of the ornate The team set out painstakingly to clean machinery, were decanted from tired old hundreds of photographic items, ensuring experience. in the Science Museum... Sadie Wilson working on Automaton lathe for the Robots exhibition. every piece before putting them back galleries. They make way for construction that they can safely travel to exhibitions her condition report for the Soyuz capsule cabin... Installing the Soyuz parachute proving a tricky task The lathe entered the collection in 1872 together again. Kate Perks, senior of the new Special Exhibition Gallery. In around the world. As the museums collaborate more closely and had been stored in 364 pieces collections care conservator, says: ‘The London, work took place late into the night on exhibitions – Robots tours to Manchester for more than a century. The complete best part was seeing the jigsaw puzzle of to hoist the ‘Gugnunc’ biplane into place At Locomotion in Shildon, the great in autumn 2017 – so the future will be lathe and supporting wooden frame pieces, with only one grainy photo from as the spectacular centrepiece of the new treasure of the historic railway site, the built upon the foundations of cross-group towers 2.5 metres tall (9 feet) and was 1906 as reference, put together into the mathematics gallery. 1829 locomotive Sans Pareil, has been working laid this year. reassembled in a collaboration between glorious object that it is now.’ relocated into the main museum building group conservators, curator Ben Russell The highly skilled conservation team has so that more visitors will find it. In York, a VIEW THIS and external specialists Richard Rogers Masterplan projects to transform our had numerous other projects to tackle. drawing table used by engineer George collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk

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FESTIVALS AND SPECIALS FESTIVALS AND SPECIALS SCIENCE AFTER HOURS IS BUZZING

‘London is open to the Victory to the games player greatest scientific minds The power of games to excite the public and the Science Museum was forcefully demonstrated by Play It! in 2016 at Manchester’s Museum of Science tells the extraordinary and Industry. Its popularity triggered the story of why we lead the gaming festival rebranded as Power UP! way in innovation’ in London where 37,000 visitors relished getting hands-on with 40 years’ worth of Sadiq Khan, mayor of London games, plus consoles past and present. The learning team programmed coding workshops especially for the occasion and have since expanded them for after- school audiences. Across the two sites these immersive gatherings contributed Opposite: will.i.am and Bill Gates take part in the £148,000 income to the group. Evening Standard’s Progress Conversation with Spin-off events from headline exhibitions are editor Sarah Sands at the Science Museum IMAX epics exclusive to us proving a huge draw with celebrity speakers As part of our commitment to expanding lighting up evenings in our museums audiences, the IMAX theatres at the National Science and Media Museum and the Science Museum both screened the blockbuster Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Star names a-glitter & Melinda Gates Foundation that seeks Bridging the two-cultures gap Birth of a space-woman A stunning new 3D film, A Beautiful Planet, Among the global ambassadors for solutions to the most vexing problems in With the Royal Society, the Standard also The Science Museum also saw 12 thrillingly dramatises life aboard the STEM who appeared on recent group health and development. supported the annual ‘Scientists Meet astronauts from the Association of Space International Space Station and has proved platforms were billionaire philanthropist the Media’ party at the Science Museum, Explorers celebrate the silver anniversary our most successful educational title. Bill Gates and Grammy-award-winning Prince Charles heads party-goers marking the 25th anniversary of the of Helen Sharman becoming the UK’s musician and advocate for education The Evening Standard held its tenth first gathering staged to foster mutual first astronaut. In our IMAX theatre she will.i.am. Introduced by group director celebration of London’s most influential understanding between professional described the fairy-tale story of how Ian Blatchford, they impressed a packed people – the ‘Progress 1000’ – at the commentators and those who work in her launch on 18 May 1991 ultimately This page, from top: Interactive console ring for audience who included entrepreneur Science Museum, attended by a glittering Britain’s laboratories. Guests included dated back to 1989 when she, as a food gamers at the hugely popular Power UP! festival Martha Lane Fox, broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili array of party-goers including the Prince Royal Institution Christmas lecturer technologist, answered an advertisement: at the Science Museum... Celebrating the 25th and CEO of Cancer Research UK Harpal of Wales, mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Saiful Islam, master of Churchill College ‘Astronaut wanted. No experience anniversary of the first Briton in space in the Science Museum’s Exploring Space gallery, Helen Kumar. The event – which was viewed Evening Standard proprietor Evgeny Cambridge Athene Donald, head of BBC necessary.’ There were also tributes to Sharman is seen with her Zvezda spacesuit made by 250,000 times during a Facebook Live Lebedev, president of the Royal Academy Science Andrew Cohen, Alok Jha from ITV Helen from Buzz Aldrin and Brian Cox. Sokol and worn on board the Soyuz TM-12 and Mir broadcast – launched an all-adults Lates of Engineering Ann Dowling, actors John News and Oliver Morton of the Economist. spacecraft... Mary Archer and Ian Blatchford meet mayor of London Sadiq Khan and artistic director evening helping to celebrate the $1 billion Malkovich and Joanna Lumley, and Mercury of the Southbank Centre Jude Kelly at the Progress Grand Challenges programme of the Bill Prize-winner Benjamin Clementine. 1000 event

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FESTIVALS AND SPECIALS FESTIVALS AND SPECIALS

Left: Live music set the National Railway Museum rocking at its special Lates event celebrating Flying Scotsman’s national tour Above: The ‘gin-and-tonic’ bar at the Science Museum Lates, sponsored by the Royal Society and dedicated to discovering The Next Big Thing Above right: Bradford’s National Science and Media Museum devoted one Lates evening to the latest ideas in wearable technology

A host of Next Big Things Tipplers learned how their gins and tonics help the fight against autoimmune diseases when the Royal Society took over a Lates evening at the Science Museum showcasing some of the best research from leading UK scientists. The journey to discover The Next Big Thing saw visitors generate electricity from walking, see through the eyes of a cuttlefish, race solar Graphene as the new Lego Insider view of genetics bugs, sculpt within the nano-realm, detect Manchester’s Museum of Science and The after-hours programme at Bradford’s synthetic speech, learn about photo- Industry held its busiest Lates event yet National Science and Media Museum elasticity, distinguish meteorites from during the EuroScience Open Forum aimed at young adults by collaborating stones and read zebra stripes as bar (ESOF), when 1000 people came to explore with local organisations – Bradford-based codes. Howzat! the theme of ‘Science in the City’. Another medical visualisation company iGene gave event marking the launch of the exhibition visitors a sneak preview of the world’s only The young want nostalgia Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond non-invasive digital autopsy technology... LATES TICK THE The first Lates event in the National brought Nobel laureate Andre Geim into A new partnership with Bradford College Railway Museum’s Flying Scotsman season conversation with the group’s Roger saw students create wearable ‘fashion of was 1920s themed and backed musically Highfield. The renowned scientist likened the future’ as part of their course... While by the Leeds City Stompers. It was also working with graphene to playing with Lates: Brains saw the black/blue (or is it designed to benchmark evening audiences Lego, but instead of bricks using atom- silver?) dress go viral on social media. ADULT BOXES who mainly consisted of young ‘nostalgia thick plates. He told the audience: ‘We have seekers’ aged 16–24, a third of them moved through many different ages – iron, students in York. This is the exact reverse bronze, silicon – and many people now All our museums have raised the bar with adults-only Lates events Above: During the EuroScience Open Forum of our usual daytime audience and will believe that we are at the beginning of our Manchester museum explored the theme that attract distinguished scientists and thoughtful audiences influence future programming. the age of two-dimensional materials.’ of ‘Science in the City’

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INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CROSSING OCEANS MAKING FRIENDS

The Science Museum came late to the Wuhan, where it will be the first Science obvious rewards of touring its exhibitions Museum Group exhibition in mainland abroad, but the group has arrived as a China. Meanwhile Beyond the Lab was major contender for forging strong bonds created by the Science Museum in 2016 as with like-minded organisations across the part of an EU-supported initiative before globe. This year the touring exhibitions starting its tour to every country in the EU. team celebrated an important milestone: 1 million people have visited our touring The Science Museum kicked off the 2017 exhibitions since the programme started in UK–Russia Year of Science and Education 2014. This is largely thanks to the success this January when we unveiled Tim Peake’s of Collider – the London and Manchester Soyuz TMA-19M to the world. Hot on its 2013–14 exhibition exploring the work of heels, Valentina Tereshkova: First Woman in CERN's scientists and engineers – which Space opened in March, marking another 600,000 people have seen during its flagship event. At a gala celebrating her world tour. 80th birthday Tereshkova opened the show herself as the ‘First Lady of Space’. Meanwhile, after a record-breaking run at the Science Museum, described by Group director Ian Blatchford visited Rio The Times as the ‘best space exhibition de Janeiro during the Olympic Games to ever’ – Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space seal our partnership with the spectacular ‘International audiences have such an Age visited Moscow, where it was seen by Museum of Tomorrow. Our learning team appetite for the same exhibitions that 72,000 people and closed to rave reviews helped to showcase London’s cultural do so well in the UK. Collaborations in January 2017. scene by performing at the British House and have subsequently delivered overseas will be a cornerstone of the Next year, the Museum of Science and professional training to their Brazilian group’s reach’ Industry will send its exhibition Wonder counterparts. A curator from another of Ian Blatchford, director, Science Museum Group Materials: Graphene and Beyond on tour. It our partners, the National Science Museum is expected to go to Manchester’s twin city in Daejeon, South Korea, is currently

undertaking a one-year internship with the Last November the prime minister Theresa Science Museum Exhibitions team. May announced the Science Museum’s forthcoming India season whilst on a The learning team’s activity does not end trade mission. Illuminating India will form there, and our excellent Punk Science a key part of the UK–India Year of Culture comedy team have given performances 2017–18, and we have already secured in Norway. The outreach team visited a number of significant loans for these every school in Gibraltar in November and exhibitions. With all of this to show for at a panel discussion in Abu Dhabi our 2016–17, the outlook for next year is accessible programmes experts shared our already looking bright. experience of developing new audiences. Ian Blatchford’s overview of international strategy – page 4 Left: The Collider exhibition’s world tour arrives at Queensland Museum in Australia; here Science Museum keeper Alison Boyle, innovation minister Leeanne Enoch, CEO of the Queensland Museum Network Suzanne Miller, and managing director Above: The Beyond the Lab exhibition launches in of QGC Tony Nunan... Russian cosmonaut Valentina London as part of the EU-supported initiative Sparks Tereshkova and Ian Blatchford opening Valentina Right: Ian Blatchford making a promotional video for Tereshkova: First Woman in Space London & Partners at Rio’s Museum of Tomorrow

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ACQUISITIONS LOANS

WHAT WE WHAT WE ACQUIRED LENT OUT

Barograph clock, 1766 da Vinci Classic surgical system, Orrery, c. 1740 Byzantine portable universal altitude In 2016–17 the Science Museum Group By Alexander Cumming, case believed 1999–2001 To: Yale Center for British Art, sundial, 401–600 In the past year the group added 682 objects to its collection to be by Thomas Chippendale. Used Made by Intuitive Surgical, USA. In New Haven, USA To: Institute for the Study of the loaned 2571 objects to 174 different by meteorologist Luke Howard for 2000, Lord Darzi carried out the Made in London by Thomas Wright of Ancient World, New York, USA across its five museums. observations that were among the first UK procedure using this robot- Fleet Street. Lent for the exhibition Fragments of a sophisticated sundial’s venues in the UK and 205 objects first urban climate studies. Acquired assisted system to remove a Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, geared calendrical device – the Here are ten representative with assistance from the Art Fund patient’s gall bladder at St Mary’s Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping second-oldest surviving geared to another 23 overseas. acquisitions and Wolfson Foundation. hospital, London. of the Modern World. Coming to mechanism. Lent for the exhibition Here’s where ten ended up Recipient: SM Recipient: SM (see also page 34) Kensington Palace too. Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Source: SM Antiquity. Source: SM

Coloured lithograph, ‘Hertz’s Radio Set Beagle 2 Mars lander ground test 3D-printed 1:1 model of a human Stamped cotton fabric samples, Iron mask, worn by an executioner, Calotype, 1847 D-700-KM picture receiver, 1960 Mimic board, used 1983–1997 1886’, by Eric Fraser, 1937 model, 2003 kidney, concept by Pankaj Chandak, 1840–1920 1500–1700 To: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain To: Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, To: Wellcome Collection, London, UK Used to promote General Post Office One of nine developmental models 2015 Sent to Manchester merchant To: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Photographed by Nicolaas Henneman, Macclesfield, UK From Becca Hall, a UK national services. Fraser was one of Britain’s for the failed Beagle 2 lander, the This innovative 3D model was used Rylands and Sons. These samples Dresden, Germany an image of ‘Diego Velasquez: By Muirhead & Company. Used to grid regional control centre. One leading commercial artists and first British spacecraft to touch by transplant surgeon Pankaj were produced for the north African By an unknown maker, with a The Family of Velasquez, from an receive the first photographs from the of 55 objects lent to the exhibition worked for the Radio Times for down on the surface of Mars. Chandak to rehearse the placing of market, reflecting Manchester's grotesque nosepiece, moulded engraving by Kovatsch’. One of 85 Moon taken by the Soviet probe Luna Electricity: The Spark of Life, many years. Recipient: SM a father’s donated kidney in his two- place at the heart of the global eyebrows and furrowed brow. Lent for items lent to Copied by the Sun. The 9 in 1966. Lent to the exhibition The produced in collaboration with the Recipient: SM year-old daughter. cotton trade. the exhibition Shame: 100 Reasons Talbotypes from ‘The Annals of the Story of Jodrell Bank. Museum of Science and Industry. Recipient: SM Recipient: MSI for Turning Red. Artists of Spain’ by William Stirling Source: MSI Source: MSI Source: SM Maxwell (1847). Source: NSMM

Manchester Steam Users’ Association Portrait of Timothy Hackworth, 1845 Ashtray, about 1915 Associated-Rediffusion in-vision Beattie Well Tank steam locomotive, Wooden right below-knee leg, Debrie Sept 35 mm cine camera, 1921 Model steam locomotive, 1875 minute book, 1875–1882 In watercolours on paper, by an Recovered from the wreckage of clock, 1956 1874 1914–1918 To: Tyneside Cinema, To: Danish Railway Museum, Records of Britain’s first boiler unknown artist. Timothy Hackworth Britain’s worst ever railway disaster The original on-air clock that was To: South Devon Railway Trust, To: The Hunterian, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Odense, Denmark inspection authority, established in is one of the great early railway at Quintinshill in 1915, in which 227 shown before programmes by Buckfastleigh, UK University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Made in Paris by Établissements A model of the pioneering Stockton & 1854 to help prevent steam boiler engineers, celebrated at our Shildon people were killed. Mounted in ITV franchise-holder Associated- One of our operational locomotive A temporary leg made for the André Debrie. This is one of five long- Darlington Railway’s Locomotion No 1 explosions that had previously museum, Locomotion, and this portrait commemoration by Thomas Henry Rediffusion from 1956 to 1964. loans, London & South Western veterans’ hospital, Erskine House. term loans to the Grade II listed venue of 1825, one of two long-term loans. killed and injured scores of people was acquired from his, family. Barnfather Smith. Recipient: NSMM Railway locomotive No. 298 was built Lent to the exhibition Erskine 100. In in the heart of Newcastle. Source: NRM each year. Recipient: NRM Recipient: NRM by Beyer, Peacock and Company. War and Peace: The Erskine Story. Source: NSMM Recipient: MSI Source: NRM Source: SM

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FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS FINANCIAL OVERVIEW: SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP DIVERSIFYING INCOME FINANCIAL SUMMARY 2016–17 TO SUSTAIN GROWTH Grant in aid Fundraising £43.3m £2.6m

By Jonathan Newby, deputy director and group chief operating officer Trading income Trading costs £16.5m £14.5m

INCOME Grants, donations and EXPENDITURE Care for and research 2016–17 sponsorship 2016–17 into the collections Total £85.1m £21.9m TOTAL £72.7m £12.1m

Rental income Science education and £1.0m communication £25.7m Other income £2.4m Visitor services £10.8m

Capital expenditure, including collection additions £19.0m These charts are based on unaudited financial information extracted from management accounts at 31 March 2017.

With the opening of two state-of-the-art have also invested in our online estate, exhibition range, the retail team developed interactive galleries – Wonderlab: The with our new Science Museum Group exclusive products to celebrate Robots. Statoil Gallery at the Science Museum Collection website offering unprecedented These include posters, prints and a in London and the National Science worldwide access. A new ticketing and Metropolis film range resulting in £78,500 and Media Museum’s own Wonderlab customer relationship management system to date. The retail plan ensures that in Bradford – plus the launch of has helped us to understand more about merchandise reflects each museum’s Mathematics: The Winton Gallery at the what exactly visitors enjoy and the new core pursuits, hence a product range in Science Museum, it has been a landmark Wonderlab annual pass adds another partnership with Zaha Hadid Architects, year for the Science Museum Group. Those means of connecting with regular visitors. plus the dedicated Wonderlab retail Runaway success: Jonathan Newby in the shop outside the hugely popular blockbuster Robots exhibition spectacular openings mark a step change space. Our museums’ shops in Manchester for our permanent attractions, topped by However, there has been a drop in visitor and Bradford introduced notable ranges our blockbuster Robots touring exhibition numbers over the past year across the including Peter Saville glassware and THE YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS that was unveiled in London, and by our whole museum sector and our museums products bearing the new National Science The Science Museum Group attracted a total of The Museum of Science and Industry attracted taking place. However, performance was further most significant acquisition in many years: have been no exception. Though visitor and Media Museum branding. 5,205,000 visits during the past year (–6%), 645,000 visits (–9%). Despite a drop in visit behind than expected (particularly in the first half Tim Peake’s Soyuz spacecraft. numbers fell by a relatively small 6%, the among which 612,000 people visited in education numbers, visits in education groups were of the year), similar to the experience of many impact on our commercial activities posed Beyond our walls, the Science Museum groups (+1%). maintained at 73,000. national museums, particularly in London. All of this activity represents the a challenge. Despite this, through rigorous Group has continued to broaden its The Science Museum attracted 3,219,000 visits The National Science and Media Museum attracted Group digital audience: There were 11,656,000 culmination of prolonged hard work and cost control and a focus on driving spend international presence through its touring (–6%) and welcomed 460,000 visitors in education 405,000 visits (–12%), including 34,000 visits in visits to the group’s websites. This was less than the none of it would have been possible per head, our commercial activities exhibition programme. In 2016–17 we saw groups, a new record. education groups (+13%). previous year (–7%), mostly driven by taking down a significant quantity of legacy content as part of the without the dedication of our staff and the generated a contribution of £3.2 million the millionth person visit one of our touring The National Railway Museum York and Locomotion, A nationwide pattern: Excepting performance at project to relaunch each museum’s website in the generous support of our visitors, sponsors to the group, which is in line with the exhibitions – a triumph for a programme Shildon attracted 936,000 visits (–3%), with the Shildon (+9%), visit numbers across the group year ahead. and donors. This much-needed financial previous year. that started in 2013. display of the Flying Scotsman resulting in the have performed behind last year. At some sites this busiest ever April in York and the busiest month was anticipated to an extent, based on the scale support has meant that in 2016–17 ever in Shildon. Visit totals included 46,000 coming or popularity of the planned public programme grant in aid represented only half of our In this uncertain climate it is important that At the heart of everything the group can in education groups (+5%). compared with previous years and onsite works total income – a demonstration of our we manage risk by developing new sources achieve lies the care and preservation of continued drive to become financially of income, alongside a vibrant public our collections, and we were delighted more self-reliant through fundraising and programme to encourage repeat visits. For to receive confirmation this year of SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP VISIT NUMBERS 2016–17 diversification of income. example, we introduced Steam Rides at government funding for the move out of the National Railway Museum in York which a shared store in west London and into Total number of visits to the museums London York Manchester Bradford Shildon Group This financial year has been the first since generated £51,000 in their first six months. a centralised group store at our site in 2015–16 3,419,000 750,000 707,000 460,000 213,000 5,549,000 2010 in which our core government grant At its Locomotion site annual attendances Wroughton. This presents a once-in-a- 2016–17 3,219,000 704,000 645,000 405,000 232,000 5,205,000 remained stable in cash terms (though were up 9% and during the Shildon Shed lifetime opportunity to digitise images and still a cut in real terms). This very welcome Bash 8000 people spent £5 each to ride records while a huge number of objects commitment to our funding, together with behind Scotsman, raising £40,000. are handled in the move. Technology then Visits in education groups London York Manchester Bradford Shildon Group a one-off increase in our capital grant this opens an unprecedented window on our 2015–16 458,000 37,000 73,000 30,000 7,000 605,000 year, has encouraged essential investment Venue hire saw a record-breaking year collection and ensures that it is held in 2016–17 460,000 39,000 73,000 34,000 7,000 612,000 in our infrastructure. We have upgraded at both the National Railway Museum the best possible conditions for future our IT systems to improve resilience, and Science Museum in London. After generations. Information is sourced through both internal and periodic independent visitor surveys. Any anomalies in totals arise from roundings. cybersecurity and on-gallery Wi-Fi; we the success of last year’s Cosmonauts

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FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS We extend our grateful thanks to all those individuals, families and organisations who chose to support the work of the Science Museum Group during 2016–17

SCIENCE MUSEUM Legacies and in memoriam gifts All those who wish to remain anonymous Eileen L Stock Individual philanthropists Hilda Taylor Trusts, foundations and government Iain and Jane Bratchie Friends of the National Railway Museum The Helen Hamlyn Trust Patrons W H Smith Group Charitable Trust Dr Sara Levene Jim Mellon Newton Circle Corporate supporters Alexandra Papadakis Lord Archer and Dame Mary Archer Alstom Transport UK Miss Sam Rawle Dr Bob Cowell Angel Trains Ltd Dr Martin Schoernig Mr and Mrs Simon Godwin Atkins plc All those who wish to remain anonymous Bridget and David Jacob Central Japan Railway Company Steve Mobbs and Pauline Thomas Eversholt Rail Ltd Trusts, foundations and government Pi Capital Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd Art Fund Mr and Mrs Michael G Wilson Hornby plc Arts and Humanities Research Council Network Rail LNE&EM Route Arts Council England Galileo Circle Omnicom Balfour Beatty Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Lord Borwick of Hawkshead Porterbrook Biotechnology and Biological The de Laszlo Foundation Rails of Sheffield Limited At the Winton Gallery opening: All the funders of the Science Museum’s new mathematics gallery, Sciences Research Council Mr Andrew Eland and Dr Pascale Hazel REPTA headed by David and Claudia Harding, with Mary Archer and Ian Blatchford Cazenove Charities Christopher and Judy Hurrion Shepherd Group The Charles Hayward Foundation Sean Phelan and Audrey Mandela Thales UK The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Lawrence and Alice Staden Virgin Trains Robert C Arthur Wellcome Trust Corporate supporters The de Laszlo Foundation Bill Berridge The Zochonis Charitable Trust British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society Department for Business, Einstein Circle Legacies and in memoriam gifts David and Patricia Buck Energy & Industrial Strategy Dr John L Collins Mrs Monica Copley Ian Clatworthy Corporate supporters In-kind supporters Engineering and Physical Sciences Hipolit and Hieronim Hodges Mr David J Croft Frank Clough Hack Manchester Laser Hotline Research Council Renato Lulia Jacob Roger Emerson John F Dixon Haydale Limited Media Servicing Limited The ExPat Foundation Mr Christopher J King Connor Egan Manchester Science Partnerships Midland Hotel Federal Department of Brunel Circle Mr Kevin Moore C H Emeleus Mills & Reeve LLP Foreign Affairs Switzerland Max and Julius Aarts Peter Henry Mumford The Flour Mill North West Business Leadership Team The Felix Thornley Cobbold Agricultural Trust Toby Anstruther Richard Robertson Edward Arthur Gale Renold plc SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP FOUNDATION Foreign & Commonwealth Office Dr P D Atherton Dr Michael S A Townsend Mr Rod Giddins Siemens plc The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Fiona Kumar Bhardwaj Richard Harper United Utilities Donors Heritage Lottery Fund Mr Ian Blatchford In-kind supporters Derek Langslow CBE Waters Corporation Dana and Albert R Broccoli Foundation Horizon 2020 European Union Funding Iain Bratchie Ambersphere Stephen Middleton The David and Claudia Harding Foundation for Research & Innovation David and Patricia Buck Arriva Cross Country Peter J C Mosse FRSA Legacies and in memoriam gifts The Sumner Wilson Charitable Trust The Ironmongers’ Company Dr Grant Castle Grand Central Railway Company Ltd Ian Robinson Mr David A Poole John S Cohen Foundation Steve Clarke Pulsar Light Chris Taylor Trustees The Leverhulme Trust John and Elaine Elkington Rail Media Group Nigel Wall Mr Adrian Beecroft Lloyd’s Register Foundation Ted Fjällman West Coast Railways Dean Welbourn NATIONAL SCIENCE AND MEDIA MUSEUM Lord Borwick of Hawkshead The Lord Leonard Wolfson and Mr and Mrs Andrew Griffith West Japan Railway Company Rodney Wilson Mr Donald Brydon CBE Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation GRoW Annenberg Foundation Individual philanthropists Professor Richard Clegg The Mercers’ Company Eric John Laws Patrons Mr Jonathan Baines Dr Bob Cowell The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Lydia Lee MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Edwina Dunn Players of People’s Postcode Lottery Dr Sara Levene Mallard Circle Trusts, foundations and government Mr Michael Hoffman Royal Academy of Engineering George and Angela Loudon Michael Harry Sacher Charitable Trust Trusts, foundations and government Bradford College The Lord Rees of Ludlow FScM Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Alan and Virginia Lovell William N Smith Department for Business, British Film Institute Sir Martin Smith Royal Society of Chemistry Lesley and Arthur I Miller Tom and Marie Spence (USA) Energy & Industrial Strategy City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council Stavros Niarchos Foundation Alexandra Papadakis Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Department for Business, The Vandervell Foundation Ms Mariela Pissioti Scotsman Circle Garfield Weston Foundation Energy & Industrial Strategy Wellcome Trust Guy Reid Dr Ian M Holland The Granada Foundation University of Bradford The Worshipful Company of Turners Dr Neil Reid Ian Macbeth Kirby Laing Foundation Yorkshire Screen Hub Simon and Kate Reid Mr Harry Medcalf University of Salford Corporate supporters Marcin Jerzy Roth Neil Millington Accenture Mr and Mrs R A Saldanha Francis Townend Airbus Group Dr Martin Schoernig ARM Seema Sharma Duchess Circle SUPPORTING THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP Bloomberg Philanthropies Ian and Helen Simm Derek Arrand BP Mr David A Trapnell Cryptair Ltd The financial support of our visitors and Trusts, foundations and lottery bodies special access to our museums, collections BT Ella and Ramesh Vala OBE M R Darbyshire Citadel Paul and Justine Williams Mr D A Fagan partners provides critical funding for the provide essential and substantial support and programmes. GlaxoSmithKline Eric Winkler Douglas Hamilton museums’ core priorities and future plans. for our new gallery developments, Google Dame Fiona Woolf Keith John Kellett We are grateful to all those who have kindly exhibitions, learning programmes and Visitor giving provides an opportunity for Grant Thornton Tom Kolisch MathWorks Alan Moore CBE made a donation to support the work of the wider public engagement. all our visitors to support our museums. Microsoft NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM Raymond Price Science Museum Group. There are a number PwC Andrew Scott CBE of different ways to become a supporter: Corporate supporters partner with us ReAgent Individual philanthropists Phil and Caroline Swallow Samsung Branch Line Society Joe Tonks across a range of activities including Shell Dave Hepper Mrs Sandra Turnbull Individual philanthropists play a unique gallery and exhibition sponsorships. For further information Statoil Roland Hummerston John Woodhouse role as transformational donors and enjoy Please contact us on 020 7942 4041 URENCO Alan E Moore CBE Wire Broadcast Ltd William N Smith Rocket Circle special access to bring them closer to our Patrons support the work of the museums or e-mail All those who wish to remain anonymous Francis Townend William R Adam museums, collections and programmes. through their annual donations and enjoy [email protected]

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FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS WHO’S WHO IN OUR THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GREAT SCIENCE ALLIANCE GROUP

THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP COMPRISES: OUR DISTINGUISHED ADVISERS Clare Hudson Science Museum, London Mr Steve Johnson The Science Museum Group is devoted to the history and contemporary practice National Railway Museum, York Science Museum advisory board Sir Richard Leese CBE of science, medicine, technology, industry and media throughout which the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester Professor Andy Miah National Science and Media Museum, Bradford Chairman Rt Hon. Baroness Morris common bond is human ingenuity. For more than a century we have innovated and Locomotion, Shildon Rt Hon. the Lord Willetts Dr Erinma Ochu SCMG Enterprises Ltd Mrs Lopa Patel MBE developed, becoming the world’s most significant museum group for science, Members Professor David A Phoenix OBE technology and engineering, and attracting more than 5 million visits annually Ms Jane Atkinson BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF Dr Sarah Caddick THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP Mr Matthew d’Ancona National Science and Media Museum advisory board The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum is Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE responsible for the whole of the Science Museum Dr Marcus du Sautoy Chairman Heritage, mission and objectives Inspiring Futures Strategic priorities – We will: Group. The trustees, who may number between Professor Russell G Foster CBE Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE Our collections form an enduring record In 2017 the Science Museum Group • Grow ‘science capital’ in individuals 12 and 20, are appointed by and responsible to Mr Malcolm Garrett of scientific, technological and medical adapted its strategic approach and and society the prime minister through the Department for Dr Lucie Green Members Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The director of Sir Paul Nurse Ms Samira Ahmed change since the 18th century. The group priorities for the period 2017–30. • Grow our audiences and exceed the Science Museum Group, as chief executive Dr Robert Parker Ms Yvonne Baker incorporates the Science Museum, their expectations officer, is responsible to the Board of Trustees; and, Professor Michael J Reiss Professor Brian Cantor CBE its Library and Archives; the National Vision – A society that celebrates science, • Sustain and grow our world-class as accounting officer, is accountable to DCMS for Professor Simon J Schaffer Baroness Margaret Eaton DBE compliance with the management agreement. Professor Molly Stevens Professor Elizabeth Edwards Railway Museum in York and Shildon; technology and engineering and their collection Professor Helen Storey MBE Ms Kersten England the Museum of Science and Industry in impact on our lives, now and in the future. • Extend our international reach Within the framework of their statutory duties as Professor Russell G Foster CBE Manchester; and the National Science • Transform our estate stated under the National Heritage Act 1983, the Mr Philippe Garner role of the trustees is to establish group policy, National Railway Museum advisory board Mrs Sally Joynson and Media Museum in Bradford. Our two Mission – We inspire futures by: • Harness the potential of digital review performance and endorse appointments Dr Annette Nabavi major collections facilities are located at • Creative exploration of science, technical • Increase income to key management positions. Their primary Chairman Ms Gillian Reynolds MBE Wroughton in Wiltshire and Blythe House innovation and industry, and how these activity is to assist the chairman in meeting the Mr Simon Linnett board’s overall responsibilities, in accordance in west London. made and still sustain modern society with the policies of the secretary of state, and in Members Railway Heritage Designation advisory board • Building a scientifically literate society, compliance with charity law. The Board of Trustees Mr Philip Benham The Science Museum Group as a non- using the history, present and future of also offers guidance and expertise on setting and Dr David Brown Chairman ‘Where better to talk implementing the strategy for the group. Rt Hon. Lord Faulkner of Worcester (observer) Rt Hon. Lord Faulkner of Worcester departmental public body evolved in science, technology, medicine, transport about how big data can Mr Bryan Gray CBE 2012 from its historic role as the National and media to grow ‘science capital’ Chairman Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Members Museum of Science and Industry. We • Inspiring the next generations of make healthcare more Dame Mary Archer DBE Dr Ellen McAdam Mr Mike Ashworth Professor Clive Roberts Dr David Brown aspire to the highest international scientists, inventors and engineers proactive, preventative Members Mr Adrian Shooter CBE Mr Ian Brown CBE museum standards in the care and and predictive than in the Professor Brian Cantor CBE Mr Anton Valk CBE Mr Malcolm Brown preservation of collections, scholarship, Mr Matthew d’Ancona Mr Christian Wolmar Mr Neil Butters Science Museum, next to Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE Ms Liz Hallam Smith programming, learning and advocacy Dr Sarah Dry Ms Louise Innes for our subject areas. Watson and Crick’s model Rt Hon. Lord Faulkner of Worcester Museum of Science and Industry advisory board Dr David Jenkins of DNA’s double helix?’ Miss Sharon Flood Mr Mike Lamport Professor Russell G Foster CBE Chairman Mr Simon Linnett (observer) Dr Craig Venter, biotechnology entrepreneur, Mr Andreas J Goss Professor Russell G Foster CBE, to March 2017 Mr Peter Ovenstone Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE Rt Hon. Lord Faulkner of Worcester, from March 2017 Mr Andy Savage speaking at the annual dinner Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Ms Vicky Stretch Mr Simon Linnett Members Mr Anton Valk CBE Mrs Lopa Patel MBE Professor Colin Bailey Below: From the Science Museum Photographic Professor David A Phoenix OBE Dr Maria Balshaw Archive, metal plates used in Crick and Watson's Mr Anton Valk CBE Mr Michael Emmerich original double-helix model of DNA Rt Hon. the Lord Willetts Dame Fiona Woolf CBE Serving during the financial year April 2016 to April 2017

NEW FELLOWS OF THE SCIENCE MUSEUM Timothy Peake: in recognition of achievements of Professor Dame Ann Dowling: (pictured right, great distinction in his career, and in particular as receiving her Fellowship from Mary Archer) in astronaut on the Principia mission. His passion for appreciation of her distinguished contribution engaging young people has inspired our visitors, to the advancement of science and engineering and indeed the entire country. through research and advocacy.

Helen Sharman: in appreciation of her distinguished Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell: in recognition THE CHARITY contribution to the advancement of human space of her distinguished contribution to public exploration. engagement with science, particularly in Greater The Board of Trustees of the Science Manchester, and for her advocacy for women in Museum was established under the National Rt Hon. George Osborne MP: in recognition of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Heritage Act 1983. The Science Museum tremendous support HM Treasury has given to the museum sector and in particular the Science Group is an exempt charity under the Third Museum Group. Schedule of the Charities Act 2011.

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FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS FIVE WORLD-BEATING MUSEUMS SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP LONDON, YORK, MANCHESTER BRADFORD, SHILDON, WROUGHTON

SCIENCE MUSEUM NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM OF SCIENCE NATIONAL SCIENCE LOCOMOTION SCIENCE MUSEUM MUSEUM AND INDUSTRY AND MEDIA MUSEUM GROUP STORE Director: Ian Blatchford Director: Paul Kirkman Director: Sally MacDonald Director: Jo Quinton-Tulloch Director: Paul Kirkman Wroughton SN4 9LT (Pre-booked research visitors only) Exhibition Road Leeman Road Liverpool Road, Castlefield Pictureville Dale Road Industrial Estate London SW7 2DD York YO26 4XJ Manchester M3 4FP Bradford BD1 1NQ Shildon DL4 2RE The Science Museum Group’s store at sciencemuseum.org.uk nrm.org.uk msimanchester.org.uk scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk nrm.org.uk/planavisit/visitshildon Wroughton in Wiltshire, founded in 1979 on a 545-acre former airfield, is our large- Heritage Heritage Heritage Heritage Heritage object store. It houses a superb range of The Science Museum traces its origins The National Railway Museum comprises The Museum of Science and Industry The newly renamed National Science and The National Railway Museum's sister site huge artefacts – such as the world’s first from the Great Exhibition of 1851 when its a main museum in York set in historic occupies an important heritage site Media Museum, in the heart of Bradford, is Locomotion at Shildon, 'the cradle of hovercraft and an early robotic arm used world-class collection of original artefacts buildings and a second museum in comprising five listed buildings. As the explores the science and culture of the railways'. The museum is a partnership in manufacturing – available for both began amassing to represent the history Shildon. Across both sites we care for original terminus of the world’s first image and sound technologies, and with Durham County Council and houses exhibition and research, as well as the of science, technology, engineering and the world’s largest collection of 1 million inter-city railway, our authentic 1830 their impact on our lives. The museum’s items from the national collection. A Science Museum’s Library and Archives. medicine. Among the key exhibits on railway artefacts, including locomotives Warehouse epitomises Manchester’s specialism draws on more than 3 million charismatic 19th-century area centred on Wroughton is becoming a national hub for display in the museum are Arkwright’s such as Flying Scotsman, Mallard, 19th-century reputation as ‘the warehouse items of historic significance in its the former home of Timothy Hackworth collections access and storage. The solar prototype spinning machine (1769), Duchess of Hamilton, a working replica of the western world’. Key objects in the national collections of photography, grew out of the world's first steam-hauled park in the centre of the airfield puts four Stephenson’s steam engine Rocket (1829), of Stephenson’s Rocket, a Japanese collection include models John Dalton cinematography and television. Pivotal public railway in 1825. An exhibition hall times as much electricity into the national Cooke and Wheatstone’s telegraph (1837), bullet train, royal carriages displayed used to demonstrate his atomic theory; world firsts include the Leeds-made and workshop opened in 2004 to house grid as we use as a group, while providing the Pilot ACE computer (1950) and the in our nostalgic Station Hall, uniforms, parts from the world’s first commercially camera used by Louis Augustin Le Prince many vintage locomotives and rolling a reliable income stream. Apollo 10 capsule that went into lunar equipment, documents, photographs available computer, the Ferranti Mark I; in 1888 to make the earliest moving stock including Sans Pareil, 1829, and orbit in 1969. Our Library and Archives and many other significant railway items. and a large collection of working steam pictures in Britain, and Kodak No. 1, the its replica built as a working loco in 1979 collection includes rare and significant The STEM agenda offers a learning mill engines. We demonstrate spinning and American-made camera that enabled mass by apprentices at British Rail’s Shildon BLYTHE HOUSE items such as the first Latin translation of programme of science shows and weaving daily on original machines in the photography from 1889. Europe’s first workshop, plus the record-breaking gas- COLLECTIONS STORE Ptolemy’s Almagest and Charles Babbage’s Future Engineers events. Textiles gallery. IMAX theatre opened here in the museum turbine-driven Advanced Passenger Train drawings for his calculating engines. The in 1983, and our Pictureville cinema boasts and uniforms, equipment, documents and Olympia museum has pioneered interactive science Masterplan Masterplan the only permanent, regularly programmed photographs. Locomotion hosts a busy London W14 0QX interpretation for more than 80 years, The £50 million Masterplan expects to A new special exhibitions gallery is Cinerama installation in Europe. programme of family activities and (Pre-booked research visitors only) while the Tomorrow's World and Who Am I? deliver seven projects between 2021 planned. This ambitious project will provide regular guided tours. galleries are flagships for cutting-edge and 2025, by developing nearby land to a venue for world-class contemporary Masterplan Blythe House at Olympia in London is science. The museum attracts 3.3 million create an enhanced world-class museum. science exhibitions in the most significant The Sound and Vision galleries – due Masterplan shared by the Science Museum, V&A and visits annually. The Homes and Communities Agency has part of our site – the 1830 complex. It will to open in 2022 – will provide worthy The National Railway Museum is in British Museum for small-object storage. acquired the museum’s surplus land in a also enable us to continue our relationship companions to the recently opened discussions with Durham County Council Following government’s allocation of Masterplan significant step toward making York Central with organisations such as the Wellcome Wonderlab interactive gallery. These about the evolution of Locomotion. £150 million for all three museums to Our Masterplan continues to transform a new business and residential quarter as Trust and Siemens UK, to help develop new displays will showcase the most Outcomes include remedial repairs, a relocate, we plan to move out about the museum with recent new permanent a ‘cultural heart’ for the city. In 2017 we are our reputation and the city’s as a globally significant objects in the collection, maintenance plan for historic structures and 320,000 objects to a new facility at galleries including Information Age, submitting major funding applications for significant place for science innovation covering key moments in history. A major improved interpretation across the site. Wroughton, uniting the group’s Wonderlab: The Statoil Gallery and redisplaying the Great Hall. and understanding. exhibition on sports broadcasting is due collections and improving access. Mathematics: The Winton Gallery (see in summer 2018. Inspiring Futures, previous page).

From left above: Red mill engine in steam in London; Queen Victoria's carriage, 1935, at York; Joule’s 1860 electric motor in Manchester; 1931 photograph of Baird’s television van at Bradford; the Advanced Passenger Train housed at Shildon; Lockheed 749 Constellation airliner, 1947, at Wroughton

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SHILDON SHED BASH TOO MANY STEAM TREATS IN A SINGLE DAY!

‘Hosting Flying Scotsman and its fellow locomotives in County Durham was a unique thrill’ Locomotion manager Gary Campbell

Never underestimate the pulling power of The nine-day event saw 44,400 visitors weekend of the bash brought the rare celebrity locomotives. People turned out get up close and personal with these double-header of Flying Scotsman and in their tens of thousands to see five icons, while 8000 fans will never forget Union of South Africa. This was the first steam-age superstars last July when the riding behind Flying Scotsman for only a time in decades that a Gresley A3 and A4 Shildon Shed Bash brought the Flying fiver! Every afternoon they could also ride had double-headed a passenger train. Scotsman season to an exciting climax. behind Union of South Africa – a rare treat Only three previous instances are on A full programme of thrills at Locomotion, in modern times to enjoy a Gresley A3 and record, and none included Scotsman. the National Railway Museum’s site A4 in the same day. in Shildon, was themed around rail Locomotion's manager Gary Campbell enthusiasts’ ‘shed bash’ culture of the These two giants of steam heritage commented: ‘Special mention has to be early 1960s when ‘opportunistic’ train- provided the breathtaking spectacle of made of our experienced volunteers spotters might stumble across rare a lunchtime shunt to take Union of South without whom this hugely successful locomotives lined up together – the Africa off the Locomotion events apron event couldn’t have taken place.’ Gresley A4 Union of South Africa, Deltic and bring Flying Scotsman onto it. Being King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Green up close to the sight, sound, smell, touch Above: An enthusiast's nirvana... Locomotion’s annual Shed Bash at Shildon featured a spectacular Arrow, Q6 No. 63395 and of course the and inevitable taste of steam made for a lunchtime shunt as Flying Scotsman changed places main attraction, Flying Scotsman. shunting experience to savour. The final on the apron with Union of South Africa

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WONDER MATERIALS

Left: A humble sticky-tape dispenser, dated 2002, proved to be the unlikely ‘To find a new material may medium for cleaning graphene samples be important but to find a before microscopy Below left: The author Lemn Sissay whole class of materials – entertains guests at the opening of the FROM STICKY Wonder Materials exhibition this happens very rarely in Below right: Andre Geim discusses the the history of humankind’ miraculous properties of graphene with the group’s director of external affairs, Professor Sir Andre Geim, Nobel Prize-winner Roger Highfield This page: Almost like chicken wire, a START TO landscape of graphene, one atom deep WONDER MATERIAL

Manchester’s ground-breaking touring exhibition about graphene explores the past, present and future of a realm in two dimensions

Amid great fanfare and enthusiastic shared a Nobel Prize and won a knighthood residency at the museum for young and reviews, July 2016 saw the Museum each. Along with their scientific notebooks emerging female musicians and artists to of Science and Industry open its most and medals is the famous roll of sticky create new works. ambitious exhibition to date. Wonder tape that provided the deceptively simple Materials: Graphene and Beyond is the route to peeling from the surface of Thanks to a global surge in graphene first major museum display to describe graphite the ‘wonder material’ graphene, research, new exhibits were added the story of the world’s thinnest material, which is super lightweight, super to Wonder Materials in December, which comprises a single layer of carbon conductive and super strong. highlighting its potential effects in atoms. Combining fascinating objects, fields as diverse as healthcare and the photographs, film and commissioned The complexity of explaining graphene environment. Some of these objects came artworks, the exhibition celebrates the science posed a challenge for curators and from the exhibition’s headline sponsor, new age of 2D materials distinguished by one solution was to commission artworks. Haydale Limited, while others came their extraordinary composition and their The renowned author Lemn Sissay wrote from the exhibition partner, the National thickness of one atom. The first items in a new piece for video, ‘The World Wakes’, Graphene Institute at the University of the exhibition were lent or donated by the and performed it live in front of hundreds Manchester. ‘godfathers of graphene’ Andre Geim and of VIP guests at the exhibition launch. Konstantin Novoselov, the University of Also featured was an art installation by Manchester physicists who successfully Random International, while the acclaimed VIEW THIS isolated the two-dimensional material, composer Anna Meredith led a four-day tinyurl.com/mujwycb RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

MATHS HOW HADID MADE MATHEMATICS BEAUTIFUL

An enticing sculptural space at the Science Museum pays tribute to Zaha Hadid’s career as an architect

Combining awe-inspiring design Following her untimely death in by Zaha Hadid Architects and more March 2016, the new gallery stands than 100 remarkable artefacts as a fitting tribute, having itself from the Science Museum Group’s been defined by mathematics. The collection, Mathematics: The soaring, sculptural design derives Winton Gallery opened at the from equations of airflow used in Science Museum in December to the aviation industry and is inspired public and critical acclaim. The by the experimental Handley Page £5 million donated by David and ‘Gugnunc’ aircraft (1929) which Claudia Harding – the largest hangs, as if suspended in flight, individual donation ever made to the at the centre of the space. museum – ensured this challenging subject was brought to life as never Mathematics: The Winton Gallery before. By the financial year’s end was also generously supported by our permanent new gallery had principal sponsor Samsung, major attracted half a million visits. sponsor MathWorks and a number of other individuals. Its opening was Curator David Rooney selected attended by a suite of luminaries each artefact to explore how whose work has been influenced by mathematicians, their tools and this grand subject. These included ideas have helped shape the modern writers Tom Stoppard and Kazuo world over the past four centuries. Ishiguro (whose father’s storm The gallery’s zones are themed surge prediction machine sits in around such issues as money, travel, the gallery), mathematicians Simon trade, beauty, life and death. Dame Singh and Marcus du Sautoy, film- Zaha was ideally placed to crystallise maker Anthony Geffen, Gail Cardew this thinking into physical form, of the Royal Institution and physicist having been brought up to regard Lucie Green. mathematics as a way of life.

’We hope the Winton gallery will inspire more children to study maths and find it less frightening and more enticing‘ Curator David Rooney, the Hardings, Mary Archer and Ian Blatchford Lead funders David and Claudia Harding