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 拢50 million development, now open to the public, have
clearly worked hard. But I found myself wondering whether…
