Science Museum

The science museum is considered as the most customer visited science and technology museum in Europe. This is the main museum in Exhibition road, South Kensington.  It was established in 1857. The museum doesn’t charge from the visitors since 1 December 2001. Science museum is a member of London Museums of Health and Medicine. The museum has a library for their own and it was the Britain’s National Library for Science, Medicine and Technology until 1960.

The collection includes over 300 000 objects. Science museum houses with well-known objects like Apollo 10 command capsule, Stephenson’s Rocket, Puffing Billy which means the oldest surviving steam locomotive, the first jet engine, a working example of Charles Babbage’s Difference engine, a reconstruction of Francis Crick and James Watson’s model of DNA, the first prototype of the 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now,, some of the earliest remaining steam engines and documentation of the first typewriter. 

IMAX 3D cinema shows the documentaries of science and nature. 

The fourth floor of the museum is known as “Glimpses of Medical History”. The fifth floor exhibits the medical instruments and practices from ancient days and that is considered as the “Science and the Art of Medicine”.

The collection also comprises public health, clinical medicine and biosciences. 

Prices 

Free to enter the museum. But charges are collected for IMAX 3D Cinema, special exhibitions and simulators.

Open Close time

Open daily 10:00 – 18:00. 

Last entry 17:15.

Closed 24, 25, 26 December.

Address

Science Museum

Exhibition Road

London

SW7 2DD

Web Site

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

Telephone

0870 8704 868


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