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Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation

A 1776 print of the Declaration, George III's microscope, and the science behind a new nation.

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At Science Museum.

The Science Museum's 250th-anniversary exhibition on the four decades from the 1760s to the first presidency, and the science running underneath them: the maps that drew new borders, the fossils dug up, the plantations laid out, the surveying compasses, alongside the knowledge of enslaved and free African-descended people and Indigenous practices that predated the nation. A rare surviving 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence, a microscope made for George III, Benjamin Franklin's first chart of the Gulf Stream and a dugout canoe commissioned for the show.

Free, but ticketed. Recommended for eleven and up.

Where
Science Museum, Frankland Road, Brompton, SW7 2AD
Nearest station
South Kensington · 5 min walk

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