Dave Patten has recently (June 2024) retired as  Head of New Media at The Science Museum Group, UK, where his role included managing all aspects of new media and AV, from conceptual design, prototyping and production to project managing external developers and production companies. He has a background in electronics and computer science, and worked at the Science Museum nearly 40 years, developing exhibitions and leading development teams. He developed the technical systems for the Science Museum’s Wellcome Wing and Dana Centre, which opened in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Recent work includes Web Lab, the multi-award winning collaboration with Google, Engineering Your Future, an interactive exhibition for teenagers on engineering and a secondment to Frost Science in Miami to help develop exhibitions and systems for a new museum which opened in 2017. As well as managing the New Media team spread across multiple sites at the Science Museum Group he also ran the Science Museum Groups Digital Lab Initiative which experiments in emerging technologies. Dave is now an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Science Museum Group researching and documenting the museum's recent past particularly it’s use of technology from a non curatorial perspective.