Exhibitions · Six floors
Things to look at. Things to operate.
One ticket covers everything. Eight permanent galleries plus the changing exhibition on Floor 3.
Featured · Floor 3
Weather Machines
Thirty working instruments that measure the sky. Crank the barometer, fire the cloud chamber, step inside a six-metre tornado. Curated with the Royal Meteorological Society.
- Until
- 14 Sep 2026
- Duration
- ~60 min
- Entry
- Included
01Permanent galleries
- G01Floor 1
Forces & Motion
Pendulums, gyroscopes and a working Foucault.
- G02Floor 1
Light & Optics
Prisms, lasers and a walk-in camera obscura.
- G03Floor 2
The Human Body
Anatomy, neurons, and a giant beating heart.
- G04Floor 2
Deep Earth
Plate tectonics, seismograph wall and minerals.
- G05Floor 4
Computing & Code
From Babbage to neural networks.
- G06Floor 4
Materials
Aerogels, alloys, and self-healing polymers.
- G07Floor 5
Sound
An anechoic chamber and an organ of jars.
- G08Floor 6
Cosmos
Meteorites, telescopes and the dome viewer.
02Coming next
- Oct 2026
The Slow Sea
Oceanography from depth to surface
- Feb 2027
Microbe City
The microbiome on a building's scale