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Science Museum Group Collection
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BBC Heritage Collection
Daily Herald Archive
Monotype Corporation Collection
Stephen Hawking’s Office
The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Kodak Collection
Pollock Pipe Collection
Jane and Howard Ricketts Collection
Arthur Frank Collection
Lancashire Coal Mining Collection
Andor Kraszna Krausz Collection
Roy Ashton & Phil Leakey Collection
Buckingham Movie Museum/John Burgoyne-Johnson Collection
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Thames Collection
Zoltan Glass Collection
Tony Ray-Jones Collection
Silberrad Glassware Collection
McLachlan Glassware Collection
John Jones Collection
Feroze Sarosh Collection
Sir Francis Layland-Barratt Collection
Ronald G. W. Norrish’s Laboratory
EMI Collection
Themes from the collection
Medicine
Explore global medical developments and advances over time
Pharmacology
Surgery
Asian medicine
Therapeutics
Orthopaedics
Railways
The development of railways from goods transport to commuter travel
Posters and handbills
Passenger comforts
Railway photographic collection
Infrastructure
Art
From innovative processes to depicting our connection with science
Artworks
Posters
Photographs
Daily Herald Photographic Archive
Industrial Revolution
The machines and industries that powered the Industrial Revolution
Textile industry
Textiles machinery
Motive power
Coal mining
Anniversaries
10 years ago
QR Code Card for Fisher Price Smart Toy Bear
Made by Mattel Inc., 2016
25 years ago
Samsung SGH-A300 mobile telephone, 2001-2005
Made by Samsung, 2001
50 years ago
'Bickerton Portable' folding bicycle, 1976
Made by Vulcan Lighting and Leisure Ltd., 1976
100 years ago
London Midland & Scottish Railway 'Crab' 2-6-0 steam locomotive, No 2700, 1926
Made by Hughes, G.; London Midland & Scottish Railway, 1926
Highlights
Hawking Building Grid
A Brief History of Stuff
Rotational photography
The Babbage Papers
Toys & games
Information Age
Mathematics
Cinematography
Psychometric Tests
Television
Radiomedicine
Creative industries
Astronomy
Computing and Data processing
Time measurement
Radio communication
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