A new diagnostic briefing paper, released last week and funded by Heritage Research Hub, makes a strong case for rethinking how #museums define success. Read the paper here to find out how we can re-energise Britain’s galleries, libraries, archives and museums: shorturl.at/6pBVO

Happy World Health Day! Interested in new methods of medical research? This article explores the way embodied knowledge and medical work intertwine and overlap: dx.doi.org/10.15180/242203

The Science Museum Group and the University of Leicester are offering a fully-funded collaborative doctoral studentship, to cover four years of research into how we discuss and understand the life and work of Stephen Hawking, contextualised by disability. Info on the CDP website.

Happy Space Day! Here's an article about the world's first space tourist, from an early issue of the Science Museum Group Journal: dx.doi.org/10.15180/150407

📰In the Spring 2025 issue of the Science Museum Group Journal, we step into our second decade of publication with an exciting suite of articles and reviews, emphasizing research into future developments in museum practices. Which article are you going to read first?

🔖Issue 23 of the Science Museum Group Journal is out now! Check out our book reviews of Applied Science by Robert Bud and Showing Resistance by Harriet Jackson.

Colin Jones reflects on the Versailles: Science and Splendour conference and on the intersections between scientific development and the French court in the new issue of the Science Museum Group Journal, out now.

Join our new event 'Textiles and Spaceflight' for LAHP funded student Varvara Keidan Shavrova's new artwork, The Blade (2025), which was inspired by the Science Museum collection. Date: 28 May 5-7:30pm. Place: Dana Research Centre & Library. Register: shorturl.at/bWWxs

🖼️From a new article by Emily Rees Koerner and Lydia Ackrell in the Spring issue of the Science Museum Group Journal

Happy World Telecommunication and Information Society Day! For readers interested in the future of communication technology, here's some reading about one of the department's projects, the Congruence Engine: dx.doi.org/10.15180/221806

From the newest issue of the Science Museum Group Journal. Read it now!

It's a pity nobody (wink wink) has written books such as "Medieval Pets " and "Cats in Medieval Manuscripts" which completely counters this.... 😂

📦A favorite from the SMGJ archive: 'Your body is full of wounds' considers representations and interpretations of Christ's side wound through a broad range of manuscripts. Check it out here! dx.doi.org/10.15180/211503

🚀Interested in Open Access and digital GLAM practices? Check out this reflection on building an open access repository for the Science Museum in the new issue of the Science Museum Group Journal: dx.doi.org/10.15180/252304

🪴 Naomi Haywood considers the interconnections between lifelong engagement with science and children's science capital in her new piece in the Science Museum Group Journal -- read it here! dx.doi.org/10.15180/252305

📦From the archive: Efram Sera-Shriar examines the photographic technologies used to simulate ghostly visitations in the William Hope staged séances in the early twentieth century: dx.doi.org/10.15180/221707