The Science Museum shares some terms across its parent organisation, NMSI (the National Museums of Science and Industry).  Some of the terms here relate to the National Railway Museum in York, or the National Media Museum (formerly known as the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television) in Bradford.

Our Collections Documentation Manager has very kindly provided the draft terms we're using.  I've uploaded them as CSV files.

Get in contact if you want to use them in a project, as they may change, and we may also be able to provide a finalised list for you.

The data is now downloadable at http://api.sciencemuseum.org.uk/documentation/collections/

The term lists (CSV format)

NMSI_draft200903_object_name.csv

NMSI_draft200903_occupation_terms.csv

NMSI_draft200903_people_organisations.csv

NMSI_draft200903_photo_tech_names_terms.csv

NMSI_draft200903_place.csv

NMSI_draft200903_railway_terms.csv

NMSI_draft200903_RONT.csv

NMSI_draft200903_subject_terms.csv

If the document has more than one column, the first line provides the column headers.