Elementary Lates

On Wednesday 24 April the Science Museum will be celebrating 150 years of the periodic table with a special Lates inspired by the UN’s International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements.

Elementary Lates is part of ChemFest, a festival of chemistry taking place across South Kensington in spring 2019. In a new free display at the Science Museum, visitors can discover the origin of Dmitri Mendeleev’s iconic periodic table, see Mendeleev’s first published periodic table from 1869 and study over 50 elements collected by Napoleon’s nephew, Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte.

Learn how the chemicals in plants can be used in printing, discover the chemistry behind creating fireworks and find out which hit dominated the airwaves when different elements were discovered.

Discover the work of British chemist Henry Moseley, go carbon dating and learn about how the element helium was discovered by astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer in our blockbuster exhibition The Sun: Living With Our Star.

All this and much more, including the chance to go on a virtual journey that is out of this world in Space Descent VR with Tim Peake and get down at our famous intergalactic silent disco.