Science Museum: New gallery about future energy opens

The new gallery explores how climate change can be tackled

A "stunning" new gallery exploring the past, present and future of energy has opened at the Science Museum.

Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery examines how the world can limit climate change.

At the centre of the free gallery is Only Breath, a moving sculpture that stretches 5m (16ft) wide when unfurled.

Also on display for the first time is part of the Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly (ZETA), a nuclear fusion experiment created in the late 1950s.

The Hydrogen, Wind and Tidal Energy exhibit in Energy Revolution

The exhibit is divided into three zones:

• Future Planet, which looks at complex computer-based models and how the climate might be in the future

• Future Energy, about how energy is supplied and attempts to reimagine it

• Our Future, which includes creative ideas from children about how the world will meet its energy needs.

Visitors with parabolic trough solar mirrors

Ian Blatchford, the director of the Science Museum Group, said: "This stunning gallery offers even more to ignite curiosity among the millions who will visit in the year ahead - provoking important conversations about the urgent need for the world to generate and use energy more sustainably.

• Overnight protest held at museum over sponsorship

"Our curators have created an inspirational experience, supported by hundreds of people from artists to those involved in acquiring, conserving and transporting vast objects safely into the gallery."

The museum has received backlash for its decision to allow Adani Green Energy, part of the Adani Group - a multinational business involved in coal extraction - to sponsor the new gallery focused on climate change.

About 150 activists protested at the site on Saturday, calling for links to the Adani Group, which runs eight large airports and eight power stations, to be cut.

Adani also manufactures arms in partnership with Israel Weapon Industries.

The decision to strike a partnership, announced in 2021, prompted protests as well as the resignations of three trustees or advisors, including TV mathematician Professor Hannah Fry and former director Professor Chris Rapley.

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