News

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science is reimagining our Learning Gallery! We seek a creative practitioner with experience in community-focused installations to bring the “wow” factor to the Gallery, with an exciting and eye- catching new artwork to hang in the ceiling. We’ve been consulting our young audiences...

2024 marks 150 years since the founding of the Cavendish Laboratory of Experimental Physics. No one could have predicted in 1874 that Cambridge physics would give birth to the atomic age: that the electron and neutron would be discovered, and the atom itself split, on Free School Lane. From delicate glass vessels and...

Jim Bennett, pre-eminent historian of scientific instruments, former Curator of the Whipple Museum, former Fellow and Senior Tutor of Churchill College, internationally celebrated curator and museum director, has died in Oxford at the age of 76. James Arthur Bennett—always Jim to his friends—was born on 2 April 1947. After...

Craftswomen is a new exhibition at the Whipple Museum exploring the work of women in the British instrument trade between the 17th and 19th centuries. It exposes the often unseen work of the ‘craftswomen’ who made instruments for measuring, modelling and investigating the world. There are many famous women in the history...