To celebrate the Baby computer’s 70th anniversary, volunteer Bob Geatrell has written a post on what it’s like to work with our replica of the machine that gave birth to modern computing.
To mark International Archives Day, we asked archivist Jan Shearsmith what his job involves
Lewis, our assistant curator and occasional Twitter celebrity, talks about the museums whose social media he loves, and why.
Our Robots exhibition closed on April 15—but for our exhibitions team that wasn’t the end of the story.
We have been working with the BBC to tell the stories of how humans built their great civilisations—using some very modern technology.
We get a lot of filming requests here at the museum, and there’s none we were happier to say yes to than when the BBC approached us to be the North West venue for this year’s Children in Need.
In this guest post, volunteer Joe Roberts takes us through the production process of one of the headline activities at Manchester Science Festival, Tape.
On Wednesday 13 September 2017, we joined in the conversation with museums and museum-lovers all over the world for Ask A Curator day on Twitter.
Here in the museum archive, we’re always happy to hear from people who have interesting documents to add to our collections.
Down here in the conservation department, we have been working hard for the past few months on the Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition, Electricity: The Spark of Life, which will make its way to our new Special Exhibitions gallery.
A new display of graphene applications in the Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond exhibition explores the ways graphene could help us address some serious global challenges.