“The Science Museum is opening up its vast storerooms in west London. The public can now book a curator-led tour of some of the 170,000 objects that are not on display in the museum’s South Kensington exhibition halls. Known as Blythe House, the storerooms are home to early telescopes and operating tables, Stone Age tools and even freeze-dried GM mice.”
The (quite-brilliantly-named) manager of collections at the Science Museum, Xerxes Mazda, says “each object, everything you see, tells a story.” I’m sure, given that the Science Museum itself only displays 7% of the collection – the rest is at Blythe House. Tours are alternate Wednesdays and free, but must be booked in advance (details)
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