Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum

You can now explore over 200 years of invention and innovation in the evolution of communication and information technologies, as part of the Science Museum’s new 'Information Age: Six Networks that Changed Our World’ gallery.

Working in collaboration with Beck Interiors, Clay Interactive and the Science Museum, Berry Place designed and engineered seven interactive replicas for the new gallery, to illustrate the operation of some of the innovative equipment that changed the way information was communicated forever.

Granted access to the genuine objects in the Science Museum archives, the team at Berry Place measured and photographed each item and translated the data into 3D CAD models to incorporate the interactive element of each display. To ensure robustness and durability, each model was machined from solid aluminium before powder-coating or anodising for a tough finish.

The working models included the ‘Baudot Keyboard, Carbon Microphone, Card Punch Machine, Crystal Radio, Dial Telephone, Double Needle Telegraph and Morse Key Tapper’.

Berry Place also created a working replica of an iconic 1950’s ‘Bush tv22’ television set which continually screens the Queen’s 1953 Coronation within the Information Age gallery.

After watching her own Coronation on the television, the Queen officially opened the new gallery with her first ever tweet “It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R."

Client - Science Museum, Beck Interiors