Glyn Morgan

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Head of Collections and Principal Curator at The Science Museum, London | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine | https://linktr.ee/glynmorgan

Shakespeare's Globe, decked up for Love's Labours Lost with flags and colourful tiles

Yuri Gagarin statue after Anatoly Novikov, 2010. Sideview of the statue in the Science Museum, the Space Gallery visible in the background. Gagarin's arm is raised as he walks forward over a Mobius loop which encompasses a planet and stars

Bill Bailey as Manny in the sitcom Black Books, season 2 episode 2. He is wearing a loin cloth made of a hot water bottle but is otherwise nailed, with "Eat Me" written on his chest, he is jumping up and down on top of a car holding a flaming torch.

Selfie in a VR headset

A ridiculous ginger cat sprawling on a yellow chair on which a navy dumper has been spread. He is asleep resting his back feet against the arm of the chair.

The cast dance a final time as Puck closes the play

Titania embraces Bottom with his donkey ears in Lloyd Park

Kamasi Washington centre in white playing saxophone on the stage of the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre, London. His band arrayed around him.

Life Aquatic costumes and props

Book cover for Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger". Black cover with her name at the top, then the title repeated eight times. Each time it becomes more distorted as if being displayed on an old cathode ray television which is picking up a bad signal. At the bottom it carries a quote from Michelle Goldberg - "I can't think of another text that better captures the beserk period we're living through" [and honestly, that is completely true].

Book cover for The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke which notes that it was the Women's Prize Winner for Non-Fiction 2025, and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize as well as being one of the Guardian, Times and Spectator Books of the Year. Also Chris Evans liked it. The cover shows two abstract figures embracing, their bodies intertwined to resemble a heart and its chambers.

The HAY sign from 2025 in the sun, a big tent in the background with trees

Ginger cat with a white mouth and chin on a small table in a kitchen looking intensely at the camera

Standing in the rain with an umbrella in front of the main statue of Cervantes and the bronzes of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza riding Rocinante and the Rucio respectively. Quixote has an outstretches arm, his lance pointing to the sky. I stand in front of him an umbrella up. Behind us sits Cervantes at the base of a large monument

Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, looking down towards royal tombs through an arch. Some are domed and others are tiled with beautiful blue and white patterns.

Ulugh Beg Observatory, looking down into the rock where the surviving portion of the massive meridian arch extends down in a curve away from the camera.

A copy of Al-Mulakhkhas fi al-hay’a al-basita (The Compendium of Plain Astronomy) by Mahmud al-Jaghmini (13th century). In the archives of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Tashkent

Massive statue of Amir Timur (Tamerlane) in Tashkent

A tree leans down onto a line of graves. In the dappled shade against the wall is the grave of Michael Faraday

Looking up in the atrium of the Institute of Physics

Star Trek IV prop, the photon detector propp alongside a spore cannister from Star Trek Discovery

Chekov in a strange outfit with wide white stuff down turned collar

Shatner as Kirk in a weird polyester tracksuit of blue green and white, made all the worse for the excellent outfits worn by Sulu and Uhura

George Takai as sulu in a fantastic sleeveless leather cape

Camera pans over a model of the starship Enterprise, NCC 1701 from Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Lights glow and flash around the model, the red warp nacelles swirl. The sound of a busy museum replaces the quiet hum of warp engines.

Three figures sit beneath a large IMAX screen showing a holding slide for the Science Museum's Star Trek 60 screening of Star Trek The Motion Picture, the Director's Edition (PG). The large image shows the crew of the Enterprise in their late 70s uniforms: pastel shades of grey and beige. William Shatner as Kirk standing front and centre. In the foreground the audience sit in their cinema seats facing the panellists who are reduced to small figures perched on stools in a spotlight

Star Trek: The Motion Picture titles

Stephen Collins cartoon about AI Peas.

A silver Dalek from Doctor Who in background looms over a model of Stonehenge in foreground. Taken at the Science and Innovation Park in Wiltshire, the object store for the Science Museum Group.

The Best of World SF vols. 1, 2 and 3 alongside both volumes of the big book of cyberpunk, the Wesleyan anthology of science fiction, the very best of the best science fiction, Africa rises, the gollancz book of south asian science fiction and others.

Selfie of Chris Packham in orange and me in green

Chris Packham in an orange jumper, in front of some of his photos, speaks to a large crowd

A BSL interpreter on the left of the stage at the Royal Society whilst Samira Ahmed chairs a panel on the future of inclusive leadership. Left to right the panelists are Divya Seshamani, Prof Robert Mokaya, Prof Edith Heard, Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim. Samira sitting on the right side.

Trailblazing perspectives, chaired by Jim Al Khalili. On stage a BSL signer stands to the left. The panel sit left to right: Ijeoma Uchegbu, Michele Dougherty, Uta Frith, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Jim. On stage at the Royal Society.

The classic scene from the original Legend of Zelda, a bearded sage in a cave tells Link "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." And presents him with a sword.

The paper map which came with the SNES game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It is titled Hyrule Overworld Lore and shows a cartoon image of Link and a fairy.

"I hate every wave of the ocean."
- Charles Darwin to W D Fox, 15 Feb 1836

"Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties."
- Charles Darwin to J D Hooker, 11 Mar 1858

"I am very tired, very stomachy & hate nearly the whole world."
- Charles Darwin to Thomas Huxley, 10 Sep 1860

"I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
- Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1 Oct 1861

"I hate myself, I have clover, I hate bees."
- Charles Darwin to John Lubbock, 3 Sep 1862

"I am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody."
- Charles Darwin to J D Hooker, 23 Jun 1863

Hardback copy of George Saunders' new novel "Vigil". The cover shows a large house with a swirling pink and purple sky above it.

Robin Ince sits to the left of his panel, he addressesaro Gatiss, Alice Lowe and David McAlmont, they sit on stage surrounded my musical equipment none of them will touch, in front of a screen which reads: Cosmic Shambles Network. An Uncanny Hour. Please Note this show will contain potentially disturbing and horrifying images.

Wikipedia summary of Aronofsky's career which ends: "in 2026, he decided to pivot from filmmaking and devote his career to making AI-generated slop."

A print showing the pouf hairstyles of the French court in 18th century

Myself, animator Ewan Jones Morris, artist Bedwyr Williams, and director Casey Raymond. Standing again the railing in the Science Museum IMAX, on the massive screen behind us looms a giant image of Bedwyr standing in one of the museum stores. The text says Science Museum Group, Q&A, and names the co-commissioning organisation Foreground.

Albie, a ginger cat, invades the photo shoot and sniffs the Saturn badge

Seven large pin badges: the planet Jupiter, a Raptor 3 rocket engine, a Saturn V rocket in flight, a hasselblad 500 camera in front of an image of the moon with an astronaut standing on it, an Apollo 11 commemorative badge showing the rocket taking off towards the moon, a copy of one of Voyager's golden records, and the planet Saturn.