The museum is a Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
It was announced on 9 March 2006 that Martin Earwicker has been appointed as the new Director of NMSI.
An ambitious new project, Inspired, which will open up to the public the 92% of the Science Museum collections which are currently hidden away, is currently being developed at Science Museum Swindon in Wroughton near Swindon, Wiltshire.