Apollo 11 – Inside HSM Oxford https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs Stories from the History of Science Museum, University of Oxford Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:23:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.16 https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/files/2018/12/cropped-Logo_bumper-white-background-32x32.png Apollo 11 – Inside HSM Oxford https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs 32 32 79207074 One Giant Leap… https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/one-giant-leap/ https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/one-giant-leap/#respond Wed, 07 Aug 2019 13:08:43 +0000 https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/?p=2113 Chris Parkin, the Museum’s Lead Learning Officer, reflects on the Museum’s Apollo 11 celebration, ‘One Giant Leap…’ 20th July brought a plethora of commemorative events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and those first steps taken by Neil Armstrong as he uttered the famous words, “One small step for a man; ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/one-giant-leap/feed/ 0 2113 Drawing the Moon https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/drawing-the-moon/ https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/drawing-the-moon/#respond Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:42:03 +0000 https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/?p=2071 Art and science have always been intertwined. In this guest post the artist Jo Lane discusses her most recent artwork inspired by John Russell’s Moon drawing that hangs in the Museum. As a regular visitor to the History of Science Museum I have been inspired by the abundance of objects to view and research. I ... [Read more...]

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