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'Santa Medicina' sculpture by Eleanor Crook

Eleanor Crook

2019

'Self-Conscious Gene' sculpture by Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn

2019

Iron Baby

Antony Gormley

1999

'Bloom' kinetic sculpture by Studio Roso

Studio Roso

2019

Figure group: 'The Toothdrawer', Berlin, 1870-1880

Dentistry

1870-1880

Stone sculpture of R J Mitchell

Stephen Kettle

2005

'For Science' [2] by Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer

2020

'For Science' [1] by Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer

2020

Materials House

Thomas Heatherwick

1999

Personalia and work done on the James Watt sculpturing machines

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Serial sculpture of bird flight

Aeronautics

1992

'For Science' by Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer

2020

Plaster plaque

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1977

'Arion' sculpture in acrylic and polyamide

Plastics and Modern Materials

1972

RAMC bearers carry wounded soldier

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1914-1968

Small horn disk with partial sculpture

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

3D printed sculpture, The Horse Marionette

Antenna

2011

'Imaginary Beings' 3D printed sculpture

Computing & Data Processing

2012

Mural panels illustrating Medieval Agriculture

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Outside Myself II

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

2000

Coal sculpture by Alan Brough

Coal Mining

1926

Plaster plaque showing bone setting in foot

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1977

Plaster plaque showing the setting of a shoulder

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1977

Plaster plaque showing bone setting in calf

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1977

Model of section of the Weaire-Phelan structure

Building Construction

'Beehave' beehive sculpture designed by Marlene Huissoud and produced by Benchmark from red oak, 2019. The beehive resembles an animal with four legs supporting a log. A 'lid' at one end can be removed to give access. The surface is carved, scorched and coated with propolis.

Beehave by Marlene Huissoud

Marlene Huissoud

2019

Sculpture. Piscator (Euston Head), by Eduardo Paolozzi; Ray Watson, Maker. 1980. Bronze, cast dark green-brown patina; height 24cm x length 38cm x width 16.5cm across [9.5"x15"x6.5"]. Weight 8kg (19lb). Not on base. Front end signed [Edition] 5/6 E Paolozzi 1980. A small scale version of the larger Piscator open air sculpture (in cast iron and aluminium finish) commissioned for Euston Station, London. Given by Eduardo Paolozzi to Ray Watson

Piscator (Euston Head)

Eduardo Paolozzi

1980

`SNAP' Sheet steel sculpture of a folding camera. Based on an Agfa Record II camera c1956. Constructed by Pat Thornton, 1989

`SNAP' Sheet steel sculpture of a folding camera

Photographs

1989

'Air', a woven stainless steel sculpture, from the Stainless Steel Lines Collection, by Kyoko Kumai, Japan, 1996

Air

Materials Science Gallery

1996

Sculpture of turtle dove in deep red cast phenolic, 20th century.

Sculpture of turtle dove in deep red cast phenolic

Plastics and Modern Materials

1910-1970

Great War painted plaster sculpture of two R.A.M.C. bearers carrying wounded soldier on a bandy chair, unsigned, English, 1914-1968

RAMC bearers carry wounded soldier

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1914-1968

Stone sculpture, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, ex Berry Brow Station, near Huddersfield, stonecarving depicting train emerging from a tunnel, formerly set into station garden, sculpted by J C Stocks.

Stone sculpture from Berry Brow Station

Railway Infrastructure

Wall relief, steel, 'Freight Business' by Chris Plowman, 1992. The shallow relief depicts aspects of rail freight in silhouette including a wagon, engine, factories, mine shaft headframe (winding tower), rail signals, radio masts, cooling towers and heads in profile. The items are linked together with a series of tracks and arrows. Commissioned by British Rail Trainload Freight for the Headquarters Building, The Angel, London. Approximately 3m x 1.5m.

Freight Business

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1992

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting three Medieval men harvesting with sickles, two cropping and one leaning onto side. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of three Medieval men harvesting with sickles, two cropping and one leaning onto side

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture by Cornelia Parker entitled 'The Negative of Glory', 1999, comprising a mass of shavings of glowing waste metal produced in the process of medal-making.

The Negative of Glory

Cornelia Parker

1999

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting two ox and an Egyptian man holding a bucket and broadcasting seeds. Created by Ralph Stephenson, 1951.

Mural of Egyptian Agriculture, two ox and an Egyptian man holding a bucket and broadcasting seeds

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Painted plaster portrait bust of Professor Frederick Guthrie by H Harvey,1885. It shows Guthrie in contemporary attire of a double-breasted coat with full beard and moustache. The plaster bust sits on a black base and is inscribed 'H Harvey 1885' on the back.

Portrait bust of Professor Frederick Guthrie

Art

1885

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating modern agriculture, depicting a tree and a section of fence with four birds flying around. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a tree and a section of fence with four birds flying around

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting an Egyptian man holding a whip while supporting ox-driven plough and a boy holding a whip. Created by Ralph Stephenson, 1951.

Egyptian Agriculture, Egyptian man holding a whip while supporting ox-driven plough and a boy holding a whip

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting three Egyptian men, one supporting and two pulling the plough. Created by Ralph Stephenson, 1951

Mural of Egyptian Agriculture, three Egyptian men, one supporting and two pulling the plough

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a bird flying with two small component representing the sky. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a bird flying

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating modern agriculture, depicting a man in a tractor. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a man in a tractor

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture. Mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, [1951]. Iron, forged using a unique process; [sight] 8x40 ft. First of a cyclorama frieze of three silhouette scenes of agricultural practice, commissioned for the Science Museum Agriculture Gallery; based on tomb drawings. Parts include digging sticks; man-drawn and ox-drawn ploughs; broadcast of seed

Mural panels illustrating Egyptian Agriculture

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a Mediaval man standing with a flail. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a Mediaval man standing with a flail

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture. Mural panel illustrating modern agriculture, by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, [1951]. Iron, forged using a unique process; [sight] 8x14 ft. Third of a cyclorama frieze of three silhouette scenes of agricultural practice, commissioned for the Science Museum Agriculture Gallery; includes tractor and crop spraying by helicopter.

Mural panels ilistrating Modern Agriculture

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting two Egyptian men leaning and holding digging sticks. Created by Ralph Stephenson.

Mural of Egyptian Agriculture, two men holding digging sticks

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting Medieval man standing with a whip folded in the hand. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of Medieval man standing with a whip folded

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Fibrous plaster sculptural plaque entitled: Monolithic transistor. By Tom Newton. 1984. 340 x 230 mm.

Monolithic Transistor

Tom Newton

1984

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating modern agriculture, depicting Mural of a helicopter spraying crop. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a helicopter spraying crop

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating modern agriculture, depicting a man in a hat on a ladder, cropping a tree. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a man in a hat on a ladder, cropping a tree

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951