The Science Museum Group Journal presents the global research community with peer-reviewed papers relevant to the work of science museums everywhere. It is completely Open Access and freely shares the research of our five national UK museums while warmly inviting contributions from international museum professionals, academics and researchers to form creative conversations.
The Journal has been publishing the work of academics, curators and scholars for ten years.
the Journal has published 247 articles as of its Autumn 2024 issue.
The Journal is grateful for each of our 42,000 readers.
In honour of the Journal’s tenth birthday, we asked a collection of authors with huge and varied experience of the cultural sector to think about the last decade and pick one thing that stands out for them.
Read moreThis article examines the history of a former Rhodesia Railways carriage in the Science Museum Group’s collection to ask what stories it can tell beyond the narrative of its return.
Read morePaul Craddock and Anna Harris trace embodied knowledge in the history of science and medicine. They argue that historians might develop filmmaking methods to engage with historical or re-enacted practices of making and performance.
Read moreProfessor Elizabeth Edwards, Dr Costanza Caraffa, and Dr Ruth Quinn speak about photographic archival practice and the archive as a generative place.
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