Energy

Our latest in-depth exhibition asks which technologies might be best at tackling climate change. Discover how to make sense of all the solutions being offered, cut through the debates and explore one controversial suggestion – biofuels – in more detail.

• Can algae save the world?

Will your ideas today change the world tomorrow? Discover the importance of energy in this fascinating gallery.

• Energy - fuelling the future

The ingenious use of steam to generate power helped Britain become the world’s first industrial nation. The steam engines in this gallery range from the earliest type used to the turbines that still generate power today.

• Energy Hall

Launchpad - the Science Museum's most popular gallery - has been relocated and reinvented. Explore science and technology first-hand with 50 hands-on exhibits and shows. See yourself on the heat camera or listen to your voice echo down a 30 metre tube.

• Launchpad

Experience first-hand the awesome spectacle of earthquakes, volcanoes and storms on a quest to understand Earth's most destructive forces. Showing only upon request for education groups.

• Forces of Nature 2D