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BIZARRE: The science museum - What They Never Told You

Science Museum director and chair of English Heritage determined to impress the value of Britain’s history, architecture and culture on politicians

The Guardian - UK

Star Trek costumes worn by Patrick Stewart and Simon Pegg to go on display

A striking prop head used in 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis will also be on show as the Science Museum marks 60 years of the science fiction franchise.

Evening Standard

Meet the ultra-rich Indians shaking up London's art scene

It’s boom time for Indian art: the market is at an all-time high, while London has had a slew of exhibitions focused on South Asian artists, supported by a new class of megadonors

Evening Standard

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OPINION - Tanni Grey-Thompson: It is shocking that a Tube station like South Kensington is still not step-free

This summer, the VA Museum opens its doors to a new exhibition Design and Disability, which aims to celebrate the creative force of Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people across design, art and culture. Described as “both a celebration and a call to action”, the exhibition will highlight the many ways…

Evening Standard

Apollo 10, Soyuz capsule among artifacts moving to new space gallery in London

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Soyuz that brought the first UK astronaut back to Earth and the only Apollo capsule to be on display outside the U.S. will soon be on the move.

Space

Museums defend BP sponsorship despite backlash against cuts to climate change funding

The British Museum’s relationship with BP was decried as ‘untenable’ and ‘indefensible’

The Independent UK

Museums defend BP sponsorship after firm abandons climate targets

British Museum and Science Museum said BP’s decision to grow fossil fuel investment would not alter relationship

The Guardian - UK

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“Magnets Are Transphobic!”: Science Musem Faces Backlash After Claiming Lego Bricks Are Anti-LGBT

Legos is "an example of applying heteronormative language to topics unrelated to gender, sex, and reproduction," according to a new exhibition at the Science Museum. The post “Magnets Are Transphobic!”: Science Musem Faces Backlash After Claiming Lego Bricks Are Anti-LGBT first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Science Museum Slammed for Warning Guests That Lego Bricks Have an Anti-LGBT Bias: 'Ridiculous'

The London Science Museum has received backlash for a recent development to an exhibit displayed that attempts to reinforce the idea that Lego bricks can be gendered, upholding heterosexuality as a societal norm.

Latin Times

Scottish museum hosts 'innovative' Covid vaccine story exhibition

AN exhibition telling the story of the global effort to develop a Covid vaccine is open now at the National Museum of Scotland.

The National (Scotland)

Emmanuel Macron’s got a point: Why shouldn’t we charge tourists to see our treasures?

The Louvre’s proposed two-tier fees are a better way to fund museums than iffy corporate sponsorship deals

The Guardian - UK

Public urged to stay away from three major London museums for a month as staff go on strike

The ‘longest ever’ strike over pay and working conditions will take place throughout the month of February

Evening Standard

Hawking Building review – the Science Museum’s giant new shed of the weird and wonderful

On an old RAF airfield, a no-frills metal barn has been built to house the reserve collections of the London museum and its associates, with 300,000 objects ranging from a 1960s nuclear missile to Stephen Hawking’s voice synthesiser

The Guardian - UK

‘Photographs did not do it justice’: King Louis XV’s magnificent rhino is star of new London exhibition

After wowing the court of Versailles over 200 years ago, the jet-black beast is back in the spotlight at the Science Museum

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Security guard sues Science Museum for allegedly denying suitable chair

Malina Nowicka, a cancer survivor with chronic back pain, works as security guard at London museum

Evening Standard

OPINION - London's lesson is change or die — and it's true for the Standard too

I did two spells at the Evening Standard, the first in the late 1980s, the second, as editor, between 2012 and 2017. In that first period of time, we covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, the Big Bang and its consequences, and the drama…

The Guardian - UK

Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns

Move follows London museum’s links to Adani Group, which has partnership with Israeli arms manufacturer

The Guardian - UK

Security at Science and Natural History museums to ballot for strike action

Exclusive: More than 70 guards at the London attractions taking part after ‘years of real-terms pay cuts’

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Pro-Palestine protest at children’s theatre show sparks backlash

‘The children do not need to know this, this is not an appropriate time,’ said a concerned parent

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Science Museum should not bow to climate change activists: take the oil money and be grateful to get it

Among its many lively claims to a place in history, the summer of 2024 will surely come to be known as the one that finally killed corporate sponsorship of the arts.

Evening Standard

Science Museum ends sponsorship deal with oil giant Equinor following pressure from climate change protesters

The Science Museum has encouraged Equinor to put in place targets which align with the Paris Climate Agreement

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s very hard to get spare parts’: London museum ‘retires’ treasure-trove gallery of household gadgets

Science Museum’s Secret Life of the Home collection, including tea-making machines, early microwave cookers, gramophones and the first flushing toilets will close on 2 June

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rachel Johnson: Should we charge for London's museums? Yes, but only in this way

Every Sunday I take the Tube to my office in Leicester Square, exit via the Big Issue seller on Charing Cross Road, dive right into the square, where it’s so jam-packed with people eating take-out I can’t see the queue for Magic Mike or the busker standing at a mic,…

The Guardian - UK

‘We want to talk about ideas’: how Margate’s Crab Museum is trying to get people to think differently

Eccentric attraction on Kent Thames estuary highlights intelligence of decapods while depicting crabs as 1920s fascists and trade unionists

Evening Standard

South Kensington could get new Tube entrance (on religious grounds)

A proposed outside archway will allow those deprived from using the Underground at South Kensington to use it

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