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Explore 300,000 historic objects from the Science Museum Group Collection in our innovative collection management facility at the National Collections Centre. 

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Walk among hundreds of large objects—including a Spacelab 2 X-ray telescope carried into orbit by the US Space Shuttle Challenger and an iconic Glasgow Tramcar—on a colourful floor grid, explore the aisles of over 30,000 metres of shelving containing objects from Stephen Hawking’s office, and even a toy duck that helped a spacecraft land on a comet.