Explore incredible objects from Professor Stephen Hawking’s office in this special new display.
Stephen Hawking at Work will give an insight into the working life of the world-renowned theoretical physicist. Come and marvel at the extraordinary contents of Hawking’s office, which was acquired for the nation by the Science Museum Group in May 2021.
Highlights of the display will include a rare copy of Hawking’s PhD thesis, his spectacles, which were specially adapted to aid communication, and even an invitation to the time travellers' party Hawking hosted.
Hawking stories
Object gallery
Permobil model F3 Corpus wheelchair, built c.2016
Detail from early generation voice synthesiser box used by Stephen Hawking.
Science Museum Group © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Tortoiseshell spectacles with analogue sensor
Science Museum Group © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Blackboard with chalk drawings made during the 1980 Nuffield Workshop in Cambridge (UK) on Superspace and Supergravity.
Science Museum Group
One of five known copies of Hawking's Phd thesis, 'Properties of Expanding Universes'
Science Museum Group © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Stephen Hawking at Work will tour the Science Museum Group’s museums, opening next at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester in Summer 2023.
