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Welcome to our peer-reviewed journal where authors from across the world publish on what matters in science museums today.

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.

Issues

Image of a fragmented fallen tree, in which a man in a white shirt and black trousers lies as though asleep or unconscious. He wears a surgical mask. In the background is a dark forest.
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Autumn 2024

Current Issue

In this special tenth birthday issue of the Science Museum Group Journal we look back at the achievements of the last decade and forward to an exciting future of change and development. Retiring Head of Research at the Deutches Museum, Helmuth Trischler, reflects on what it has taken to create an integrated research museum; Will […]

Oil painting portrait of Professor Stephen Hawking
21

Spring 2024

Welcome to Issue 21 of the Science Museum Group Journal. This issue features a special collection of four articles exploring some of the most significant scientific acquisitions made in recent decades, that of Professor Stephen Hawking’s office at the Science Museum Group and the papers of Professor Hawking at the University of Cambridge. Here Tilly […]

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The Journal has been publishing the work of academics, curators and scholars for ten years.

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the Journal has published 247 articles as of its Autumn 2024 issue.

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The Journal is grateful for each of our 42,000 readers.

Highlights from our recent issue

Ten of ten

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.

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Challenging museum narratives: the case of a Rhodesia Railways carriage

This 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.

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Tracing embodied knowledge in the history of science and medicine: expanding the role of film in historical research

Paul Craddock and Anna Harris trace embodied knowledge in the history of science and medicine, arguing that historians might develop filmmaking methods to engage with historical or re-enacted practices of making and performance.

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In conversation: photographic curatorship and photographic cultures in museums and research institutions

Professor 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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Featured content

By Tilly Blyth and Alison Boyle

Theory and every thing: acquiring the office of Professor Stephen Hawking as a resource for history and museology

By Annie Thwaite

A history of amulets in ten objects

By Ludmilla Jordanova

On heroism