The Science Museum Group (SMG) is a collection of British museums, comprising:
- The Science Museum in South Kensington, London.
- The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
- The National Railway Museum in York.
- The National Railway Museum at Shildon in County Durham ("Locomotion").
- The National Media Museum (formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television) in Bradford.
- The Science Museum at Wroughton in Swindon, Wiltshire.
Prior to 1 April 2012, the group was known as the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI).
Read more about Science Museum Group: History, Directors of NMSI
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“Oh, what does science not conceal today! How much, at any rate, is it meant to conceal!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“[A] Dada exhibition. Another one! What’s the matter with everyone wanting to make a museum piece out of Dada? Dada was a bomb ... can you imagine anyone, around half a century after a bomb explodes, wanting to collect the pieces, sticking it together and displaying it?”
—Max Ernst (1891–1976)
“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)