By Dirk van Delft Museums theme – Quest for Absolute Zero: A Human Story about Rivalry and Cold By Peter Donhauser Museums theme – Science vs technology in a museum’s display: changes in the Vienna Museum of Technology with a focus on permanent and temporary exhibitions and new forms of science education By Martha Fleming Museums theme – making Split + Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine By Jennifer Landry Museums theme – Beyond the Black Box: reflections on building a history of chemistry museum By Sophie Goggins, Tacye Phillipson and Samuel J M M Alberti Prosthetic limbs on display: from maker to user By Tim Boon, Annie Jamieson, John Kannenberg, Aleks Kolkowski and James Mansell ‘Organising Sound’: how a research network might help structure an exhibition By Tim Boon, Roger Kneebone, Peter Heering, Klaus Staubermann and Yves Winkin A symposium on histories of use and tacit skills By Sarah Baines From 2D to 3D: the story of graphene in objects By Tom Ritchie Ventriloquised voices: the Science Museum and the Hartree Differential Analyser By Henry A McGhie Review: Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America, edited by Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017