Our Robots exhibition closed on April 15—but for our exhibitions team that wasn’t the end of the story.
Kat is the Press and PR Manager here at the Science and Industry Museum.
You have probably at some point eaten sushi—the traditional Japanese food made from rice, fish and seaweed.
We have been working with the BBC to tell the stories of how humans built their great civilisations—using some very modern technology.
At the Museum of Science and Industry, Heritage Lottery Funding has helped acquire two fascinating objects, Richard Arkwright’s water frame and the only surviving piece of equipment from the Manchester hydraulic power system.
We get a lot of filming requests here at the museum, and there’s none we were happier to say yes to than when the BBC approached us to be the North West venue for this year’s Children in Need.
Curators are creative folk—and spending all day with the amazing objects in our collections can lead to some interesting trains of thought.
From robot poop to AI in hospitals, Tomorrow’s World Live at Manchester Science Festival covered all the big questions. Here’s the most important stuff we learned.
Robert Peston and his guests were under strict instructions to not eat the croissants on his desk. Exactly why were ITV’s pastries left untouched?
August 2017 marks 225 years since the death of Richard Arkwright. Here, we look at both his entrepreneurship and the controversy that surrounded him.
10–19 March is British Science Week 2017, so we asked our curators, archivists and explainers for some of their favourite items in the collection—ones that are truly ideas that changed the world.