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Welcome to the History of Science Museum

Your favourites are back — plus a brand-new exhibition on Islamic Metalwork.

Islamic Metalwork Handbag from The Courtauld

New Online Exhibition Gallery - Precious and Rare: Islamic Metalwork from The Courtauld

There's even more to explore in our online Exhibition Gallery, Cultures in Conversation.

Browse through the online exhibition cases, discover objects and stories from the Multaka-Oxford team, and make your own Islamic pattern from a simple doodle.

New exhibition - Precious and Rare: Islamic Metalwork from The Courtauld

From stunning court fashion and intricate astrolabes to beautiful bowls and candlesticks, discover how the technical skills of Islamic artisans stimulated cultural conversations through the ebb and flow of people, goods, and ideas.

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Supporting your Museum

As a registered charity, we make our Collections freely available for everyone to enjoy and offer a wide range of activities for our communities.

Thanks to your generosity — last year our visitors contributed £41,000 in donations — we have been able to support the Museum’s Collections and continue public events and education programmes.

That is why we continue to rely on visitors just like you to support us.

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Volunteering

We are very grateful to all our volunteers who help make our Museum and its Collections more welcoming, interesting, and open to all. Would you like to join them?

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Welcome to the History of Science Museum

Discover. Connect. Inspire.

Explore the history of science through our objects, their inventors — and the stories of how they changed the world.

Discover ingenious objects

New Online Exhibition Gallery - Precious and Rare: Islamic Metalwork from The Courtauld

New exhibition - Precious and Rare: Islamic Metalwork from The Courtauld

Exhibition: Heartbeat of the CIty

Join us live for armchair science

Exhibition: Photo Oxford 2020: Women and Photography

Object of the Month

Object of the Week

Visitor's Choice

Meet Stephen, your Pocket Curator

Take the 2-Minute Tour

Be inspired

Free online talk: Rings of Heaven

Free online talk: Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Oxford

Free online talk: Board Games and Medieval Medicine

Free online talk: Is ‘Science’ Always Exact?

Family Fun online: Oxford's Christmas Light Festival

Symposium Online - Precious and Rare: Islamic Metalwork from The Courtauld

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Online Galleries: Astrolabes of Africa

From burnt toast to Einstein

Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Join our experts as they put a selection of our working scientific instruments through their paces. It's rare we have a chance to handle these objects, so we hope you enjoy seeing them come to life as much as we did.