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Explore our thriving programme of research which aims to promote understanding of our collections, audiences and exhibitions across the Science Museum Group.
Science Museum, London
Joined September 2018
Interested in following the happenings of the Research and Public History Department? Join our LinkedIn group for longer posts and more frequent updates:
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Happy World Radio Day! Readers interested in sound history, and the technology that shaped it, should take a look at Tim Boon's article on the Oramics Machine, an unusual sound synthesizer:
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! For reading up about their new favorite women scientists today, here's an article on the way Wikipedia and online databases can support feminist practices in STEM:
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For a R&PH read, arising from the Artefacts Consortium conference held annually: Understanding Use, edited by Tim Boon, Elizabeth Haines, Arnaud Dubois and Klaus Staubermann đź“š
New Release! Past lives, future lives, and “museum lives”—check out the various “lives” of scientific and technologic objects before and after they enter a museum, and then how the museum visitor experience reveals new interactive use for these objects.
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In the newest issue of the Journal, Paul Craddock (@pwcraddock1984) and Anna Harris explore film as a potential method of medical research 📽️:
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Looking for work about the future of journal and academic publishing methodology? Tim Boon writes about overlay journals here:
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RT @ArchaeologyFitz: Our toolkit for hybrid volunteering using heritage collections is now out at the @sciencemuseum Journal! Really proud…
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For fans of photography, the (potentially) paranormal, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 📸🔍✨:
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Start your 2025 reading list off well with a review of the last decade's best exhibitions, books, and digital innovations. Available now in the December issue of the Science Museum Group Journal:
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Penguinaut's second day in the office! He seems to be fitting right in.
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The newest addition to our Journal's team--for now known as Penguinaut--is hard at work filling in footnotes. Name suggestions are welcome, as is a skim through our Spring 2024 issue in preparation for the Journal's launch next week!
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RT @hankgreen: Sometimes I think, "Compared to geological time, living things exist for only little blinks," but other times I think, "actu…
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Keep an eye out for the next issue of the Science Museum Group Journal, coming at the end of next week and featuring articles on medical film, photographic collections and digital museum practice. 🎉
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Interested in the intersection between art and science? We certainly are! This recent SMG Journal article, by interdisciplinary curator Hannah Redler-Hawes, responds to art that reflects on the Big Bang:
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RT @suryabowyer: "The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting instituti…
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#Researchers, watch for our upcoming Birthday Issue of the Science Museum Group Journal, featuring writing about the #Cottingley fairies, photographic #archives, and a historic #railway carriage!đź”–
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RT @sciencemuseum: On the 135th anniversary of his birth, we’re celebrating the life and career of Edwin Hubble. Our latest blog post loo…
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Join our new event 'Venus Conversations 2024-2034', along with SMG curators Abbie MacKinnon, Laura Joy Pieters and @rjimellor, and scientists leading the EnVision ESA-NASA mission to Venus. Reserve here: Find out more:
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Celebrating the inauguration of the Hawking Building at SMG's Science and Innovation Park, here's some reading from the Journal's spring issue on the acquisition of Stephen Hawking's office:
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The last of our space series posts considers the UK space activity and historiography from 1957 to 2007 🛰️ Explore the article on our SMG Repository here:
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