Science Museum
Ownership of the 545-acre (2.21 km2) site was passed to the London Science Museum in 1979 to be used as a storage facility for the largest objects of the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI). A collection of approximately 20,000 objects are currently kept in six of the hangars, from the first hovercraft to MRI scanners, and computers to (de-activated) nuclear missiles. The Science Museum Swindon is currently a museum store serving the conservation, object storage, and transportation needs of many museums, and therefore is not open to the public except during occasional Open Days, special events, and for pre-scheduled school tours. However, it has plans for an ambitious project called Inspired which will open up all of the Science Museum's hidden treasures to the public for the very first time.
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