The Science Museum is exploring how the Palace of Versailles, famous for its architecture and history, was also a major site of scientific thinking with the Versailles: Science and Splendour exhibition. A range of objects, including timepieces, microscopes, sculptures, maps and Louis XV’s rhinoceros (which will be on display in the UK for the first time), will showcase the role science played at the palace in the 17th and 18th centuries, the figures associated with the pursuit of knowledge, and how science was used as a tool of power.