The free exhibition will be available to visit from the 24th July until the 4th January 2026.
The Science Museum has unveiled details of its upcoming free exhibition Future of Food, going on display later this month.
Future of Food will explore how science is playing a part in creating more sustainable ways to grow, buy and eat food through more than 100 objects including 3,500-year-old Egyptian bread and McNuggets to prototype products including cricket burgers and cell-grown salmon.
It will also touch on:
- Making your cell-grown meat at home – displaying an adapted pressure cooker turned bioreactor for growing cells
- How the Kenyan version of The Archers helped transform the livelihoods of farmers suffering crop losses
- How yeast and food waste can be turned into a sustainable alternative to palm oil;
- How scientists are developing ‘fertiliser free’ barley plants with nodules that are home to bacteria which can convert nitrogen in the air into nutrients for the plant.
Throughout, the display will also highlight stories of cientific and community efforts to conserve the genetic diversity of foods including Norway’s ice-cold seed vaults and seed-swapping ceremonies in the Amazon.
Visitors will also be able to delve into how community food projects, from organic food subsidy schemes in Cardiff to community kitchens in Peru, are making positive strides in reducing the environmental impacts of the food we buy, cook and eat.
To find out more visit: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/future-of-food