A relaxed, morning opening to explore the Museum collections in a quiet environment. Designed to welcome neurodivergent and SEND visitors and those with sensory processing differences.
How Does It Work (including Light & Space Backpacks)
Join us for an afternoon getting hands-on with our collections — find out how they work, and experience our amazing objects in action. And don't miss our Light & Space backpacks for families.
All welcome. Activities for adults and families (7+)
How Does It Work (including Light & Space Backpacks)
Join us for an afternoon getting hands-on with our collections — find out how they work, and experience our amazing objects in action. And don't miss our Light & Space backpacks for families.
All welcome. Activities for adults and families (7+)
How Does It Work (including Light & Space Backpacks)
Join us for an afternoon getting hands-on with our collections — find out how they work, and experience our amazing objects in action. And don't miss our Light & Space backpacks for families.
All welcome. Activities for adults and families (7+)
A relaxed, morning opening to explore the Museum collections in a quiet environment. Designed to welcome neurodivergent and SEND visitors and those with sensory processing differences.
How Does It Work (including Light & Space Backpacks)
Join us for an afternoon getting hands-on with our collections — find out how they work, and experience our amazing objects in action. And don't miss our Light & Space backpacks for families.
All welcome. Activities for adults and families (7+)
How Does It Work (including Light & Space Backpacks)
Join us for an afternoon getting hands-on with our collections — find out how they work, and experience our amazing objects in action. And don't miss our Light & Space backpacks for families.
All welcome. Activities for adults and families (7+)
How Does It Work (including Light & Space Backpacks)
Join us for an afternoon getting hands-on with our collections — find out how they work, and experience our amazing objects in action. And don't miss our Light & Space backpacks for families.
All welcome. Activities for adults and families (7+)
How Does It Work (including Light & Space Backpacks)
Join us for an afternoon getting hands-on with our collections — find out how they work, and experience our amazing objects in action. And don't miss our Light & Space backpacks for families.
All welcome. Activities for adults and families (7+)
To save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists took innovative approaches to produce rigorously tested, clinical-grade vaccines and drugs at speed.
But how can these new techniques deliver wider healthcare benefits for all of us?
A Healthy Future for All? empowers you to discover the science for yourself, and explore some of the big questions around the future of healthcare.
In the Museum that inspired Lyra's alethiometer ...
Just like Lyra with her alethiometer, we search for answers to life's questions in our moving universe. Journey to our Basement and step into the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Discover iconic costumes and devices from the BBC series, explore intriguing dials that inspired Philip Pullman to create Lyra's alethiometer, and send your questions out to the cosmos.
Andrew Robinson, author of Einstein in Oxford (Bodleian, 2024), explores the story behind Einstein's blackboard and the enduring appeal of one of the world's most famous scientists.
Find out about the Babbage Archive project. Enabled by support from the Clay Mathematics Institute and a UKRI grant, the Museum is conserving and digitising a precious archive of Babbage material.
Blog: Oxford's sewage disposal system protects against epidemics
MultakaOxford volunteer Valerii Malko, a philosophy professor from Ukraine, shares his research into the history of public health and sewage systems in Oxford.
Blog: Making your mark: the Comtesse de Lespinasse’s Astrolabe
From powerful Sultans to a French countess, Dr Sumner Braund tracks down the owners of a rare Mesopotamian astrolabe, exploring the marks they left — and the price they paid.
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.
MultakaOxford brings the rich, diverse knowledge of people settling in Oxford — many through forced migration — to the History of Science Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum.
Portrait artist & photographer Fran Monks talked with our colleague Izzy Treyvaud to explore how photography can celebrate the extraordinary stories of 'ordinary' people.
Collecting COVID curator Tina Eyre shares her experiences of working with the Bodleian Libraries to build a 'living history' collection from Oxford University's pandemic response.
Discover the story of Waldemar Haffkine, the "vaccine pioneer the world forgot", and his 35-year friendship with groundbreaking photographer Sarah Acland.
