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Explore the many ways in which science is visual, and visual culture shapes how we think about science. Our collections range across painting, drawing, print, sculpture and digital from the 1500s to today.

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Cloud study of Cumulus and a little stratus

Luke Howard

1803-1811

Cloud study of Light cumulus

Luke Howard

1803-1811

Cloud study of Half a nimbus anvil

Luke Howard

1803-1811

Cloud study with Stratus-like brush marks

Luke Howard

1803-1811

Plato

James Hall Nasmyth

1844

Trade card for William Dowling, optician and instrument maker, London, England, 1822-1830

R. Wilks

1822-1830

photograph. albumen. [Panaramic view of Welsh Vall

Art

1893-1895

Photograph, Indian Vina

Art

1876

Dalswinton House and Loch

.Unattributed

1744

Watercolour illustration of a vesicular skin disease

.Unattributed

1901-03-04

Stjerneborg Observatory

Johannes Blaeu

1634 (print); 1581-1587 (observatory)

Joseph Burch

Charles Allen Duval

1860

Mer de Glace, Chamonix, with lady and gentlemen climbers

Art

1850-1900

Supersonic

Roy Nockolds

1948-1952

Jet Engine on a test bed

Terence Tenison Cuneo

1954

Is this your future?: Hydrogen uniform

Dunne & Raby

2004

Is this your future?: 'Poo' gift bag

Dunne & Raby

2004

Bryant and May's factory

Unknown maker

c. 1900

Heister's method for the removal of tumour from a breast, France, 1780

Unknown maker

1780

Watercolour illustration of a haemorrhagic skin disease

Unknown maker

1902

Alarming Comet of 1835

McLean, Thomas

1835

Engraving. Diagram. Tidal chart of the World, etc; The Distr

Reynolds, James & Sons (publisher)

c. 1850

Astronomical Diagram. Eclipses. The theory of the tides. Pub

Reynolds, James (publisher)

c. 1860

Drawing. Horizontal gas retorts / RT Roussel, nd.

Raphael T Roussel

c. 1930

Dancing Divas

Chila Kumari Singh Burman

2017

Portrait albumen photograph of Rennie George

Maull and Polyblank

1860-1869

Mudskipper Spray [1]

James Capper

2018

Haathi - Dancing Elephant

Chila Kumari Singh Burman

2017

Phenomena of Nature: The Rainbow

Josiah Wood Whymper

1849

Descent of the Great Balloon

McLean, Thomas

1836

Parvati - Hindu Goddess

Chila Kumari Singh Burman

2017

Purple Rain 1

Chila Kumari Singh Burman

2017
Wall-mounted materials library created to accompany the large sculptural part of Thomas Heatherwick's ‘Materials House’. It comprises 213 materials each with an explanatory label. This piece was commissioned by the Science Museum in 1997 for the Challenge of Materials gallery and was built on site layer by layer. It allows visitors to explore a huge range of materials in an imaginative and original way. Heatherwick wanted “to do justice to [materials’] capabilities”.

Library for Materials House

Thomas Heatherwick

1999

A Singular Operation

William Nutter

1795

Mrs. Everitt and her son - The gigantic infant

William Richardson

1780

Tribute to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India

Chila Kumari Singh Burman

2017

'Living Made Easy', print, London, England, 1830

McLean, Thomas

1830

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

William Ramsay

Mark Richard Milbanke

1913

North Eastern coalfield: colliery pit-head and coking ovens [1]

W Wheldon

1845

John Mercer

Alexander Craig

1851-1861

Richard Arkwright

.Unattributed

1850-1859

Edmund Cartwright

Fulton, Robert

1850-1859

Catalogue advertising William Moody Bell, manufacturer of medical equipment

Unknown maker

1842-1900

The Dudley: Thirst - the end of a shift

Gilbert Daykin

1934

'The Eagle', Airship c 1834. Coloured lithograph.

Ackermann and Company

1834-1850

Cloud study of cirrocumulus

Luke Howard

1803-1811

Cloud study of cirrus, above light cirrostratus, with cirrocumulus below

Luke Howard

1803-1811

Cloud study of light cirro-cumulus beneath cirrus

Luke Howard

1803-1811

Rowland Hill, Esqr.

Art

1848