An exhibition at the London Science Museum seems to be creating a furore over the way it chooses to present a particular subject.

In one of the exhibitions the museum hosts that the public can access without a guide but with a guide in electronic or print form, there are exhibits Lego.

The exhibition, titled “Seeing Things Queerly” (seeing things from a Queer perspective – loosely translated) includes among the exhibits the well-known Lego bricks.

On a sign next to the exhibit the audience reads: “Lego promotes gender theory. In its bricks people tend to see male and female and call the attachment of two pieces as a union. People think of the top part as the male piece and the bottom as the female piece.”

There is no source in this inscription from which the museum or exhibition officials derive the information on the exhibit’s label.

And this has sparked new discussion regarding the methods it uses, especially in its temporary exhibitions as much as the information it chooses to display.

In the same exhibition, despite Lego being shown to promote “gender theory” the museum also hosts a very specific Lego Billy.

Billy was created by the well-known Danish company in 1992 and first promoted the idea 33 years ago that “diversity is not a crime” and there should be no discrimination.

Alongside the exhibits in the exhibition is a replica of a British Spitfire fighter jet in honour of pilot Robert Marshall Cowell.

Cowell, who was one of the most experienced British Air Force pilots in World War II, underwent a gender reassignment surgery after the war ended.

In the report’s guide, Cowell is nonetheless described as the first transgender person ever to fight.

The exhibition has generated a variety of reactions from individual citizens and organisations defending the gender “theory” but the museum has yet to make a statement.

The exhibitions that sparked reactions

It is worth noting that this is not the first time that this museum has created a backlash with some of its exhibitions.

In 2022, it had again caused a “ruckus” with an exhibition on gender and sexuality, and in 2023 the museum had also moved to withdraw an exhibit as it was accused of promoting “extreme propaganda in favor of the LGBTQ community“.

The museum is owned by the Science Museum Group headed by Sir Ian Blatchford. The former banker has often and openly spoken out against the woke agenda and in a 2021 Telegraph op-ed he pointed out that the “cancel” culture was the greatest enemy of civilisation.