Model illustrating the Transit of Venus, 2004.
© Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library
Model made for the Science Museum to celebrate the Transit of Venus on 8 June 2004. A Transit of Venus, where the planet Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth, happens very rarely and that of 2004 was the first for over one hundred years. This model was the centrepiece of an exhibition mounted at the time in the Science Museum.