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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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Chemin de fer de Paris a St. Germain

Art

1845

'First Aid' cigarette card

W D and H O Wills Limited

1913

'First Aid' cigarette cards

W D and H O Wills Limited

1913

Portrait: Mounted photo print of Cornelius Varley

Maull and Polyblank

1860-1869

Mathematical, Philosophical and Optical Instruments

.Unattributed

1753-1770

Charles Babbage Esqr

John Linnell

1832

Brunell's Patent Metallic Paper

Ackermann and Company

1819

The Conchologist

George Spratt

c. 1831

John Harrison

Thomas King

1834-1837

Design for a Square DE Landau carriage

Art

1870

Radium

Vincent Brooks, Day and Son Limited

1904

RNAS Capel Looking East

Norman Wilkinson

1918

Painting of SS "Scotland"

Art

1865

Tennant's Stalk, Glasgow

Muirhead Bone

1890-1922

Bridge over Water-Street, Manchester

Art

1830-1839

albumen photograph, Victoria Blast Furnaces

Art

1880-1895

Coloured print of King George IV in pony phaeton

Art

1821-1837

Trade card: Thos. Harris & Son

Art

1839

Christian Augustus Siebe

Ernst Augustus Becker

1859

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

Art

1783

Military balloon during the Boer War

Art

1899-1900

Awful Changes

Henry Thomas De la

1833

Sic Itur Ad Astra

Art

1783

Past and Present

Leighton Brothers

1845

Robert Stevenson

John Syme

1839-1841

Au Quart de Cercle Geometrique

Art

1600-1800

Steam trains of the Oriental Inland Steam company

Day and Son

1858

Thomas Beach

Art

1701-1800

Photographic Portrait of William Perkin (1838 - 1907)

Maull and Fox

1900

Republique Francaise. Fete Nationale du 30 Juin, 1878

Art

1878

[Montgolfier] Voyage Aerien dans le Jardin de la Muette le 21,9,1783

.Unattributed

1783

One of set of 50 cigarette cards

W D and H O Wills Limited

1913

Geographical Diagram. Geological Map of England

James Reynolds

1849

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

Art

1765-1806

Dogfight, with five fighter aircraft of World War 1

.Unattributed

1955-1965

Trade Card for George Bradford

.Unattributed

1817-1836

Perspective view of the Great Central Railway Station, Derby

H G Collins

1851

Charles Babbage

Art

1833

A Peep at the Gas Lights in Pall Mall

G M Woodward

1807-1809

The Flying Steam Company, to China in Twenty-four Hours Certain

Art

c. 1843

Lithograph: Printed by C. Hullmandel after T. Brookes. A West View of the House and Manufacturies of Enoch Wood & Sons

Brookes, T

1833

Grand Prix de l'Aviation

Ernest Montaut

c. 1910

The opening ceremony of the Metropolitan & Provincial Working Classes exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington

Art

1866

Water Colour painting by Robert Sanderson of Coal Pits near Tranent

Robert Sanderson

1875-1900

Print, coloured. Experience de la machine aerostatique de M. Montgolfier

Art

1783

Snow-rigged Sloop

.Unattributed

1720-1850

Odds and Ends, in, out and about The Great Exhibition

George Cruikshank

1851

drawing. Ink with grey and sepia wash. 'Tub

.Unattributed

1805-1820

Ascent of the 19th September 1783, at Versailles

Art

1783

Trade advertisement - Chadburn Brothers

Art

1850-1851