Category: Science Museum

Mechanical swan that entranced Mark Twain lands at Science Museum

An 18th-century automaton that entranced Mark Twain and generations of other viewers will be a star attraction at the Science Museum’s Robots exhibition. When the swan was first displayed in the 18th century, admission cost the enormous sum of five shillings. Twain, the Huckleberry Finn author, who saw it in an exhibition in Paris in…
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13th February 2017
Retrospective ROBOTS exhibition at Science Museum

Only now is technological reality catching up with the robots that have so long haunted science fiction. Leonardo da Vinci, whose art is arguably one huge experiment in science fiction, made a mechanical monster to impress the king of France in the early 1500s. At the start of the 20th century, artists and writers became…
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10th January 2017
A wonderlab inside the Science Museum

According to Dezeen, Architecture studio Muf has created a new interactive gallery at London’s Science Museum, featuring playground slides, a quilted theatre and a huge model of the solar system. As the first of several new galleries set to open at the museum, the Wonderlab invites visitors to experiment with over 50 different models and…
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25th October 2016