10 Climate Stories

A new exhibition, 10 Climate Stories, opening at the Science Museum on Friday 8 April, showcases artworks from established and emerging artists, offering new perspectives on the famous displays, as well as revealing hidden stories behind some of the museum's best-loved exhibits.

In The Toaster Project, emerging designer and Royal College of Art graduate Thomas Thwaites pulled apart the cheapest toaster he could find – and then built his own, by mining and processing all the raw materials himself and manufacturing every component. The magnificently imperfect result offers a playful yet powerful comment on consumer culture.

Longplayer, by Jem Finer, is a one thousand year long piece of music that began playing on 31 December 1999. A new listening post playing this critically acclaimed work will be installed in the museum's flagship gallery, Making the Modern World. Nearby, Yao Lu's arresting images from the New Landscapes series depict a rapidly changing world – where all is not what it seems.

10 Climate Stories is part of the museum's three-year Climate Changing programme – a series of thought-provoking events that accompanies the *atmosphere… exploring climate science gallery.