Science Museum

In 1998-2001, as part of its centenary programme, the Society funded a BPS Psychology Fellow at the Science Museum (external link). The collaboration identified the wide range of exhibits and artefacts at the Museum with psychology associations and led to the enhancement of the Museum’s collection and the development of a permanent exhibit, ‘Mind Your Head’, in the medical galleries, as well as the editing of the new standard history of British psychology entitled Psychology in Britain: Historical Essays and Personal Reflections. Such outputs, along with a series of adult dialogue events and the development of a family Museum trail, successfully engaged visitors in psychology as a science.

This experience led to the creation in 2007 of a Society-funded post of BPS Curator of Psychology at the Museum, along with provision for a major temporary exhibition and a further series of public dialogue events.

This partnership represents a significant new opportunity to bring to a wide audience a view of psychology located within a broad science context, as well as to interpret science in general within a psychology context.

Philip Loring was appointed BPS Curator of Psychology from July 2009.

See Psychology at the Science Museum