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📦From the archive: Efram Sera-Shriar examines the photographic technologies used to simulate ghostly visitations in the William Hope staged séances in the early twentieth century: dx.doi.org/10.15180/221707


🪴 Naomi Haywood considers the interconnections between lifelong engagement with science and children's science capital in her new piece in the Science Museum Group Journal -- read it here! dx.doi.org/10.15180/252305


🚀Interested in Open Access and digital GLAM practices? Check out this reflection on building an open access repository for the Science Museum in the new issue of the Science Museum Group Journal: dx.doi.org/10.15180/252304


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It's a pity nobody (wink wink) has written books such as "Medieval Pets " and "Cats in Medieval Manuscripts" which completely counters this.... 😂


📦A favorite from the SMGJ archive: 'Your body is full of wounds' considers representations and interpretations of Christ's side wound through a broad range of manuscripts. Check it out here! dx.doi.org/10.15180/211503


From the newest issue of the Science Museum Group Journal. Read it now!

SmgResearch's tweet image. From the newest issue of the Science Museum Group Journal. Read it now!

Happy World Telecommunication and Information Society Day! For readers interested in the future of communication technology, here's some reading about one of the department's projects, the Congruence Engine: dx.doi.org/10.15180/221806


🖼️From a new article by Emily Rees Koerner and Lydia Ackrell in the Spring issue of the Science Museum Group Journal

SmgResearch's tweet image. 🖼️From a new article by Emily Rees Koerner and Lydia Ackrell in the Spring issue of the Science Museum Group Journal

Join our new event 'Textiles and Spaceflight' for @LAHP_DTP funded student Varvara Keidan Shavrova's new artwork, The Blade (2025), which was inspired by the Science Museum collection. Date: 28 May 5-7:30pm. Place: Dana Research Centre & Library. Register: shorturl.at/bWWxs


Colin Jones reflects on the Versailles: Science and Splendour conference and on the intersections between scientific development and the French court in the new issue of the Science Museum Group Journal, out now.

Experience our exhibition Versailles: Science and Splendour like never before with one of our volunteer tours ✨ From Madame du Coudray, who trained thousands of midwives across rural France, to Émilie du Châtelet, who worked on the first translation of Newton’s Principia…

sciencemuseum's tweet image. Experience our exhibition Versailles: Science and Splendour like never before with one of our volunteer tours ✨

From Madame du Coudray, who trained thousands of midwives across rural France, to Émilie du Châtelet, who worked on the first translation of Newton’s Principia…


🔖Issue 23 of the Science Museum Group Journal is out now! Check out our book reviews of Applied Science by Robert Bud and Showing Resistance by Harriet Jackson.


📰In the Spring 2025 issue of the Science Museum Group Journal, we step into our second decade of publication with an exciting suite of articles and reviews, emphasizing research into future developments in museum practices. Which article are you going to read first?


Happy Space Day! Here's an article about the world's first space tourist, from an early issue of the Science Museum Group Journal: dx.doi.org/10.15180/150407


The Science Museum Group and the University of Leicester are offering a fully-funded collaborative doctoral studentship, to cover four years of research into how we discuss and understand the life and work of Stephen Hawking, contextualised by disability. Info on the CDP website.


A new diagnostic briefing paper, released last week and funded by @HeritageR_Hub, makes a strong case for rethinking how #museums define success. Read the paper here to find out how we can re-energise Britain’s galleries, libraries, archives and museums: shorturl.at/6pBVO


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