This October, we’ll host three special exhibits from Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Alternate Realities programme. The museum team visited the festival to explore what it’s all about—Creative Producer Alice Parsons tells us more.
We have seven permanent galleries and three exhibition spaces. From interactive family fun to the history of photography, find out more about the subjects we cover and the objects we display with blog posts from our team and guest authors.
As part of our Action Replay exhibition, we’ve been asking you to name your sporting hero. The results are in—we can reveal your top 10 so far (plus a few other highlights).
Think back to the last time you watched a sporting activity, match or race with family or friends. Do you remember the excitement building as the game began?
Our fantastic summer family exhibition, Action Replay, opens this week. Students from Lapage Primary were the first to check it out. Here’s what they thought…
Robert Paul’s film of the 1896 Prince’s Derby can be considered one of the earliest examples of newsreel footage. Ahead of this year’s Derby on 2 June, curator Toni Booth takes a closer look.
Our Masters placement students give you the inside track on how Thresholds, Mat Collishaw’s extraordinary VR experience, was created and installed at the museum.
This February half term, we played host to free family activities and events inspired by the brand-new animated adventure Early Man.
The Daily Herald Archive records political milestones, but also illuminates how the newspaper interpreted these developments.
Mission: Space, our fabulous interstellar half term adventure, is on this week. As part of it we have a fascinating display of space food, very generously loaned to us by The Space Collective.
On Tuesday 26 September 2017, we took delivery of a very special object: Tim Peake’s Soyuz descent module had landed at the National Science and Media Museum.
Sound artists Vicky Clarke and David Birchall, aka Noise Orchestra, take you behind the scenes of the Bradford-inspired installation they created for Supersenses.
During the summer holidays, STEM Ambassadors Aisha and Serish spent time in our Supersenses exhibition, talking to visitors about how neurones help us sense the world. We asked them to tell us more…