Current issue
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 […]Issue 21 Editorial
Theory and every thing: acquiring the office of Professor Stephen Hawking as a resource for history and museology
Collaboration and mediation: a guide to the creation of the Stephen Hawking Archive
We create the Universe: artists and scientists take on the Big Bang
Stephen Hawking’s superspace and supergravity blackboard: an iconic artefact in the making
Objects of the Mind: using film to explore the entangled histories of media and mental health
Book review: Stuff: Humanity’s Epic Journey from Naked Ape to Nonstop Shopper by Chip Colwell, Hurst, 2023
Review: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design, Ashmolean Museum Oxford exhibition
Book review: The Museum of Other People, by Adam Kuper (London: Profile, 2023)
Jim Bennett (1947–2023): life as a museum practitioner