Technical/Science Museum Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/category/attractionexperience/technical-science-museum/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:21:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 200 Years of Railway Heritage celebrated at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:21:20 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12541 The Museum of Science and Technology in Vienna (Technisches Museum Wien) is, like us in the UK, celebrating 200 years of technical and social advances brought about by the railway. Their temporary exhibition Under the Spell of the Railway – 200 Years of Rail Transport, opened in October and uses impressive models, historical objects, and […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/feed/ 0 The Science Museum opens its new ‘Space’ gallery https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/the-science-museum-opens-its-new-space-gallery/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/the-science-museum-opens-its-new-space-gallery/#respond Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:01:26 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12058 London’s Science Museum has today (20 Sep 2025) opened its new ‘Space’ gallery showcasing some historic pieces of space equipment, together with some new technologies from the UK space industry. The ‘stars of the show’ are two historic space vehicles:  the Soyuz TMA-19M Descent Module and the Apollo 10 Command Module. Both of these are […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/the-science-museum-opens-its-new-space-gallery/feed/ 0 A new home for part of the Science Museum Group Collection opens near Swindon https://mechtraveller.com/2024/10/a-new-home-for-part-of-the-science-museum-group-collection-opens-near-swindon/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/10/a-new-home-for-part-of-the-science-museum-group-collection-opens-near-swindon/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:04:40 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10574 Over 300,000 historic items from the Science Museum Group* collection have been carefully moved into a new facility at the National Collections Centre in the Science and Innovation Park near Swindon in Wiltshire. The new Hawking Building, named after Prof. Stephen Hawking, is not a museum. It is a storage and research facility. However, as […]

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