I’ve worked with the Science Museum Group (SMG) learning team over the last few years developing and scripting short gallery introduction films, initially with creative consultancy Radley Yeldar and more recently with Hewitt & Walker video production. For each film I look for stories that help to show that every visitor has a stake in science and technology, tying in with the SMG’s commitment to building science capital.
The latest film, released in February 2026, introduces the Sound and Vision Gallery at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford. The film showcases world firsts in photography, TV, film, radio and music, with stories about pioneering women and men. Delightful groups of school children show that there is plenty to see, hear and do in the gallery’s two floors.
A film completed about a year before was for Wonderlab at the National Railway Museum, a gallery for anyone who, as the script says, likes making things (or sometimes breaking things).
Prior to that in spring 2023 was a film I scripted for the new interactive Technicians Gallery, which explores the skills young people can put to work in careers as technicians, everywhere from a blockbuster film set to a pharmaceutical lab.
I also wrote a film introducing the Science Museum’s huge new project Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, in 2020, and another showcasing the Maths Gallery in 2017.
Here are other films I have written for the Science Museum and its sister museums in Bradford and Shildon.
The Science Museum’s learning team also commissioned me to help them script a hand-drawn animation exploring how the science capital approach can help transform science centres and museums.
