ANY museum of science and technology risks ending up like a python that’s
swallowed a goat: bloated with artefacts from human history, it struggles to
digest its prey into pithy statements that show-case generations of ideas
and objects. A museum has to look forward as well as back. It also needs to
satisfy today’s three-second attention spans and be aesthetically satisfying at
the same time.
You can’t fault the new Wellcome wing at London’s Science Museum for effort.
The planners of this £50 million development, now open to the public, have
clearly worked hard. But I found myself wondering whether…
