The current Exploring Space Gallery at the Science Museum © Science Museum Group
The London museum has announced details of the three new ground floor galleries which will take its plans to the end of the decade
The Science Museum in London has announced plans to create three new galleries on its ground floor.
The new galleries – Space, Tomorrow: The Bennett Gallery and Ages of Invention – will respectively delve into space exploration, future scientific research, and current scientific and technological innovations.
The museum said the three new ground floor galleries will open across the next five years, providing almost 3500m2 of public gallery space.
The Space gallery is set to open this autumn 2025; the ‘Tomorrow: The Bennett Gallery in early 2027, and fundraising is currently underway to support Ages of Invention, which is expected to open towards the end of this decade.
The new Space gallery will replace the museum’s current Exploring Space gallery. It will undergo a four-month phased closure after the Easter holidays before objects such as British astronaut Helen Sharman’s Sokol space suit, and the capsule which returned astronaut Tim Peake to Earth, will be moved through the museum to be redisplayed in autumn, in the museum’s West Hall.
‘Tomorrow: The Bennett Gallery’ will feature three sections which explore scientific endeavour at the human, planet and universe scale. Designed by Wright and Wright Architects, Tomorrow will
reveal the museum buildings architecture with a widened gallery entrance.
A fundraising drive is underway for the final gallery, Ages of Invention.
