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2024
Research report
Research and Public History Annual Report 2022–2023
The Science Museum Group supports a thriving programme of research which aims to promote new ways of understanding our collections, audiences and exhibitions. Each academic year a research report is published capturing that research year’s activity. This Research and Public History Annual Report covers the academic year 2022–2023. -
2022
Journal article
The BepiColombo ‘model’: looking beyond the ‘original’
This paper examines the role that models and replicas typically play in aerospace museums, which is to use them as references for the original or final product. Using the BepiColombo Structural Thermal Model currently on display at the Science Museum as well as other models in the Exploring Space gallery...MacKinnon, Abigail
space, journal article, curation, interpretation, and exhibition
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2022
Journal article
Black Arrow R4: the object behind the screen
The Black Arrow R4 rocket passed through many hands on its way to and within the Science Museum. Sets of relationships were established around and enacted through the object at each stage of its journey, so imbuing it with a range of meanings. This journey was in turn built around...Millard, Doug
space, technology, and journal article
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2016
Journal article
Cosmonauts: Birth of an Exhibition
Millard, Doug
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2015
Editorial
Editorial
Jordanova, Ludmilla
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2015
Journal article
Through the lens of a space tourist
This essay attempts to contextualise the experience and documentation of the world’s first space tourist, a multi-millionaire American businessman Dennis Tito, who vacationed on the International Space Station in 2001. The essay brings together two parallel elements of this historical event: the political transformation of the Russian space programme which...Tcharfas, Julia
space, history of technology, journal article, public engagement, and science communication
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2015
Journal article
The Cosmonauts challenge
Focusing on the experience of working with Russia’s cultural, industrial and political sectors, this paper investigates how the development of new contacts and partnerships has contributed not only to the loan of material of historic significance to the Science Museum’s exhibition, but more broadly changes perceptions about Russia and its...Blatchford, Ian ; Sidlina, Natalia
Soviet Union, space, history of technology, science museum, journal article, and exhibition
