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Hawking Building review – the Science Museum’s giant new shed of the weird and wonderful

On an old RAF airfield, a no-frills metal barn has been built to house the reserve collections of the London museum and its associates, with 300,000 objects ranging from a 1960s nuclear missile to Stephen Hawking’s voice synthesiser

The Guardian - UK

Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns

Move follows London museum’s links to Adani Group, which has partnership with Israeli arms manufacturer

The Guardian - UK

Science Museum ends sponsorship deal with oil giant Equinor following pressure from climate change protesters

The Science Museum has encouraged Equinor to put in place targets which align with the Paris Climate Agreement

Evening Standard

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London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors

Campaigners welcome ‘seismic shift’ and urge museum bosses to review links with other fossil fuel sponsors

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s very hard to get spare parts’: London museum ‘retires’ treasure-trove gallery of household gadgets

Science Museum’s Secret Life of the Home collection, including tea-making machines, early microwave cookers, gramophones and the first flushing toilets will close on 2 June

The Guardian - UK

The best restaurants in Kensington, from Zaika to Jacuzzi

Food fit for a king: Ben McCormack selects the best places to eat in the Royal Borough

Evening Standard

Best dance mats for kids for retro playtime

Get into the groove and bust a move

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14 cultural things to do with the kids this Easter, from Terrible Thames Tours to Jurassic Encounters

From eye-boggling balloon rooms, to historical Easter egg hunts in palace grounds, there’s tonnes of brilliant London activities for children over the break

Evening Standard

London Science Museum’s Energy Revolution gallery champions sustainable exhibition design

The Energy Revolution gallery opens at London’s Science Museum, exploring decarbonisation through sustainable exhibition design by Unknown Works

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Is Science Museum’s green power gallery tainted by fossil-fuel cash?

Museum’s funding by Indian energy group sparks controversy – with activists calling for boycott of ‘tainted’ partnership but others in full support

The Guardian - UK

Greta Thunberg and eco-activists stage protest at Science Museum over 'oil and gas sponsorship'

Extinction Rebellion protesters unfurl banners at panel talk in demonstration against sponsors

Evening Standard

Council rejects Jewish sect’s planning application that would finally allow them to travel on the London Underground

The planning statement said that the proposed secondary roof would break up the one roof phenomenon

The Independent UK

Five old contraception methods that show why the pill was a medical breakthrough

If you have access to it, it’s easy to take today’s contraception for granted. But key discoveries over the last century or so changed the lives of women.

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‘It’s not like science fiction any more’: Nasa aiming to make spaceships talk

Exclusive: Researcher Dr Larissa Suzuki tells how Nasa is developing a ChatGPT-style interface

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Museums must take more care with their donors

Letter: The sponsor of the Science Museum’s climate gallery is part of the controversial Adani conglomerate, writes Dr Chris Garrard

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Science Museum sponsorship deal with oil firm included gag clause

Exclusive: museum in London agreed to take care not to say anything that could damage sponsor Equinor’s reputation

Evening Standard

‘Red Wall Rottweiler’ Lee Anderson has a change of heart on Rishi Sunak

Lee hasn’t always been a fan of the PM, as we found last year

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BP sponsorship of Royal Opera House ends after 33 years

Move leaves British Museum and Science Museum isolated as arts institutions with fossil fuel sponsors

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London museum and gallery lates 2023: Best evening events and exhibitions from the Science Museum to Barbican

Looking for something cultural to do in London in the evening? Here’s our pick

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Plan to move the Millennium Dome to Swindon revealed in National Archive memo

The Science Museum had other ideas

The Independent UK

What should we do with the Dome? Move it to Swindon

Files released to the National Archives show the Science Museum director wanted to use it to house a new museum in Wiltshire.

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Crabs and tea cups: UK show lifts the lid on Covid vaccine race

London (AFP) - From a scientist's laptop to the syringe used to inject the UK's first Covid vaccine dose, an exhibition that opened Wednesday in London recounts the quest to produce a coronavirus jab through objects.

Evening Standard

72-foot space rocket coming to Kensington next week

If you’re a fan of spacecrafts, then this will be just your thing in South Kensington

The Guardian - UK

So that’s how Star Trek’s warp drive works! Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination review

From Alien to Frankenstein to Star Wars and beyond. this celebration of the many worlds of sci-fi is a bit too family friendly for its own good. Beam me up!

The Guardian - UK

Science fiction exhibition in London takes visitors on a journey into space

Voyage to the Edge of Imagination at the Science Museum uses AI and interactive exhibits to create an immersive experience

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