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Star Trek costumes worn by Patrick Stewart and Simon Pegg to go on display

A striking prop head used in 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis will also be on show as the Science Museum marks 60 years of the science fiction franchise.

Evening Standard

BP accused of ‘insidious’ influence on UK education through Science Museum links

Campaigners claim firm has bought sway over the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths

The Guardian - UK

Summer in the city: London's top cultural things to do with kids during the holidays

From magical artworks to spectacular backstage tours, Emily Bryce-Perkins on a cultured way to spend the summer (that won’t leave parents bored)

Evening Standard

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Council offers £12m to revamp overcrowded and inaccessible 'tourist hotspot' Tube station

South Kensington is gateway to Natural History Museum, Science Museum and V&A but has no step-free access

Evening Standard

Museums defend BP sponsorship despite backlash against cuts to climate change funding

The British Museum’s relationship with BP was decried as ‘untenable’ and ‘indefensible’

The Independent UK

Museums defend BP sponsorship after firm abandons climate targets

British Museum and Science Museum said BP’s decision to grow fossil fuel investment would not alter relationship

The Guardian - UK

Science Museum Slammed for Warning Guests That Lego Bricks Have an Anti-LGBT Bias: 'Ridiculous'

The London Science Museum has received backlash for a recent development to an exhibit displayed that attempts to reinforce the idea that Lego bricks can be gendered, upholding heterosexuality as a societal norm.

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Versailles at the Science Museum review: a beautiful show harking back to a time when science wasn't considered bleakly functional

4/5 This collection of artefacts from the French court marries cutting-edge (for the time) technology with beauty

Evening Standard

A French revolution in science, Japanese art remixed and Everest re-ascended – the week in art

A blockbuster show of Versailles’ experiments, Takashi Murakami’s cheeky spin on classic paintings and Mallory and Irvine remembered – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Hawking Building review – the Science Museum’s giant new shed of the weird and wonderful

On an old RAF airfield, a no-frills metal barn has been built to house the reserve collections of the London museum and its associates, with 300,000 objects ranging from a 1960s nuclear missile to Stephen Hawking’s voice synthesiser

The Guardian - UK

Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns

Move follows London museum’s links to Adani Group, which has partnership with Israeli arms manufacturer

The Guardian - UK

Science Museum ends sponsorship deal with oil giant Equinor following pressure from climate change protesters

The Science Museum has encouraged Equinor to put in place targets which align with the Paris Climate Agreement

Evening Standard

London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors

Campaigners welcome ‘seismic shift’ and urge museum bosses to review links with other fossil fuel sponsors

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s very hard to get spare parts’: London museum ‘retires’ treasure-trove gallery of household gadgets

Science Museum’s Secret Life of the Home collection, including tea-making machines, early microwave cookers, gramophones and the first flushing toilets will close on 2 June

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The best restaurants in Kensington, from Zaika to Jacuzzi

Food fit for a king: Ben McCormack selects the best places to eat in the Royal Borough

Evening Standard

Best dance mats for kids for retro playtime

Get into the groove and bust a move

Evening Standard

14 cultural things to do with the kids this Easter, from Terrible Thames Tours to Jurassic Encounters

From eye-boggling balloon rooms, to historical Easter egg hunts in palace grounds, there’s tonnes of brilliant London activities for children over the break

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London Science Museum’s Energy Revolution gallery champions sustainable exhibition design

The Energy Revolution gallery opens at London’s Science Museum, exploring decarbonisation through sustainable exhibition design by Unknown Works

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Is Science Museum’s green power gallery tainted by fossil-fuel cash?

Museum’s funding by Indian energy group sparks controversy – with activists calling for boycott of ‘tainted’ partnership but others in full support

Evening Standard

Greta Thunberg and eco-activists stage protest at Science Museum over 'oil and gas sponsorship'

Extinction Rebellion protesters unfurl banners at panel talk in demonstration against sponsors

The Independent UK

Council rejects Jewish sect’s planning application that would finally allow them to travel on the London Underground

The planning statement said that the proposed secondary roof would break up the one roof phenomenon

The Conversation

Five old contraception methods that show why the pill was a medical breakthrough

If you have access to it, it’s easy to take today’s contraception for granted. But key discoveries over the last century or so changed the lives of women.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not like science fiction any more’: Nasa aiming to make spaceships talk

Exclusive: Researcher Dr Larissa Suzuki tells how Nasa is developing a ChatGPT-style interface

The Guardian - UK

Museums must take more care with their donors

Letter: The sponsor of the Science Museum’s climate gallery is part of the controversial Adani conglomerate, writes Dr Chris Garrard

The Guardian - UK

Science Museum sponsorship deal with oil firm included gag clause

Exclusive: museum in London agreed to take care not to say anything that could damage sponsor Equinor’s reputation

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