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We were delighted to work with artist and designer Kirsty Harris to co-create our Blood Bikers performance, part of the BLOOD: Life Uncut season. Here she tells us about the inspiration for the piece and where the bat motif came from.

In August, Science Gallery London teamed up with the Old Operating Theatre to exhibit the work of Helen Pynor and Peter Clancy with the installation The Body is a Big Place. Here Karen Howell, curator at the Old Operating Theatre shares some historical insights around bleeding in medicine. 

Our forthcoming SPARE PARTS season explores the possibilities of regenerated, enhanced or donated parts that can be altered through choice or destiny. What are the emotional and psychological aspects of living with an organic or engineered spare part? How are they actually created and transplanted? What is their potential to exist outside of the biological body, to be shared and exchanged?

The Whale Weekender was a conservation project organised by the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL on the 8th and 9th of July. The weekend saw eight hundred volunteers come together to piece together a whale skeleton to see if there were any missing parts.

Chantelle Pierre is a Sickle Cell Sufferer who writes a blog for the Sickle Cell Society called 'My Invisible Life'. Recently we interviewed Chantelle, and you can hear her share her experiences of the disease in our podcast 'Is Sickle Cell Anaemia a Black disease' on our microsite for the BLOOD season.

It is difficult to replicate the complexity of any body part. Arms, legs, hands, noses, feet, ears and eyes - all are so well suited to their purposes that, if you have lived with any of them your entire life, the subsequent loss is difficult to come to terms with…

The Leonardo group are a group of future thinkers who advise Science Gallery London…

We invited Jan Bowden, a lecturer in midwifery at King's College London to contribute to the first in our series of podcasts on BLOOD. Unfortunately she wasn't able to meet us but she sent us this brilliant menstrual 101. He's, she's and they's listen up! 

From student mediators to curatorial advisors, our seasons simply could not happen without input from staff and students at King's College London.  Our new film ‘Engaging with Science Gallery London’ explores the impact of our creative collisions on the staff and students who get involved.  Something Louise Weiss, our Public Engagement Manager, explores further in this blog.

The construction of Science Gallery London has now been underway since April 2016. We thought it was about time we caught up with Head of Project Delivery Tim Henbrey to find out what's been happening...

As we approach the end of 2016, the Science Gallery London team take a nostalgic look back at just some of the year's highlights.

Born in Moorgate in 1795, John Keats trained at Guy's Hospital before turning to poetry in his early 20's. A statue of Keats, which sits on a bench on King's College London's Guy's Campus around the corner from Science Gallery London, became the subject for our MOUTHY creative writing competition: Give Keats a Voice!…