Museum of Science and Industry

The whole Museum will be closed on Tuesday 23 March as a result of essential work needed as part of the redevelopment of Main Building.  We apologise for any inconvenience caused.  For full details of this exciting project, click here.

Come and see this exciting new exhibition which showcases China’s space race and the history of aerospace exploration, from ancient China through to the present day.  This fascinating exhibition includes models of ancient rockets, as well as recent satellites (including the Donfanghong series), rockets (including the Long March series), space ships and a lunar rover.

The Chinese were the first people to invent gunpowder and ancient rockets during the Song dynasty in 960-1279AD. The exhibition, which was developed by the China High-Tech Industrialisation Association, tracks China’s history in space, from the development of the first rockets and early attempts to fly, through to the launch of the first carrier rocket on 29 June 1964, development of satellites and the launch of the Chang’e-1 lunar probe satellite on 24 October 2007, as well as future plans.

MOSI has worked with the Confucius Institute to develop partnership arrangements with a number of science-based organisations in China, and The China Space Programme Exhibition is a result of this.