• Hawking Building review – the Science Museum’s giant new shed of the weird and wonderful

    Hawking Building review – the Science Museum’s giant new shed of the weird and wonderful
    Science and Innovation Park, Wroughton, Swindon
    On an old RAF airfield, a no-frills metal barn has been built to house the reserve collections of the London museum and its associates, with 300,000 objects ranging from a 1960s nuclear missile to Stephen Hawking’s voice synthesiserMuseum storage facilities are unseen wonders, dark troves of material in little-publicised locations. They might hold 95% or more of an institution’s collections, with some objects as fascinating and beautifu

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