Grab your lab coats—because London’s beloved Science Museum is getting a massive makeover! The beloved museum has announced plans to revamp their ground-floor galleriesand parts of the museum will soon close to finish the decade-long transformation.
This brand-new expansion of the transformation project will open up three significant new galleries, and will complete the glow-up of four floors at the London landmark.
Since 2014, more than 60% of the Science Museum has been renewed thanks to £100 million investment secured from sponsors, charitable trusts, foundations, and philanthropists.
Eleven free new galleries—and two permanent interactive spaces, Wonderlab and Power Up—have opened in that time, which invite visitors to explore diverse topics including medicine, communications technologies, mathematics, the environment, and beyond.
However, their ground floor is the final piece of this transformational puzzle, with their adored ‘Space’ Gallery set to bis us adieu after forty years of treacly service, making way for a fresh exploration of the cosmos.
The three new galleries coming to the ground floor will be the brand-new Space Gallery, Tomorrow: The Bennett Gallery, and Ages of Inventionwith each respectively delving into space exploration, the scientific research that will change our future, and the scientific and technological innovations that shaped our present.
Opening this decade, these galleries will reimagine the ground floor of the Science Museum, providing more fabulously free spaces to learn and lean into scientific expression.
Space will open in autumn 2025, followed by Tomorrow: The Bennett Gallery in early 2027. Fundraising is currently underway to support Ages of Inventionwhich is expected to open towards the end of this decade.
You can still visit the old-school Space Gallery if you’d like to see it before the changes, having until 2 June before its full closurewith part-closures planned from 22 April—but don’t worry, there will still be plenty of space stuff on display throughout the museum during these closures.
In other Science Museum news, there’s currently a fascinating temporary exhibition on display delving into the Palace of Versailles and its influence on science. For more information, click here or the link below.
