Science Museum Group

The origins of SMG lie in the internationalisation and optimism of the Great Exhibition of 1851, which enabled the foundation of the South Kensington Museum in 1857.

The Science Museum was run directly by HM Government until 1984, when the Board of Trustees was established and NMSI was then adopted as a corporate title for the entire organisation.

[citation needed] In October 2021, the SMG announced that a new climate change gallery to be opened in 2023 at the Science Museum would be sponsored by an arm of coal producer Adani Group.

[11] SMG continues to work to reduce carbon emissions from operations, recruitment and supply chain, and by using resources efficiently.

The chairman of the group is Sir Tim Laurence who was appointed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak[15] on 1st January 2024, succeeding Dame Mary Archer who had served from 2015.