Science Museum
The Science Museum in Exhibition Road opened in 1857 and gives a panorama of all branches of science through the ages. Discoveries and inventions, the Industrial Revolution, nutrition and the Space Age are described. Visitors can measure their own heartbeat, shake hands with themselves and star in their own special effects video. The museum includes Stephenson’s Rocket and the capsule that took three astronauts to the moon in 1969; also a Vickers Vimy aircraft, of the sort that made the first Transatlantic flight in 1919.
Open 10-6. Admission free.
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NEARBY ATTRACTIONS IN LONDON
The Barbican
The British Library
The British Museum
Buckingham Palace
Cabinet War Rooms & Churchill Museum
Chelsea Physic Garden
Courtauld Institute of Art
Earls Court & Olympia
English National Opera
Greenwich Royal Observatory
Harrods Department Store
Hayward Gallery
Houses of Parliament, Westminster
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Kempton Park
Kensington Palace State Apartments
Kenwood House
The London Dungeon
The London Eye
London Zoo
Lords Ground and MMC Museum
Madame Tussauds
Museum of Garden History
National Army Museum
National Gallery
National Theatre
Natural History Museum
Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Mews
Royal Opera House
Royal Society of Arts
Serpentine Gallery
Shakespeare's Globe
Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum
Somerset House
Spencer House
St Paul's Cathedral
Syon Park
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
The Tower of London
Twickenham Rugby
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Wallace Collection
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Cathedral
White Chapel Art Gallery
HOTELS NEAR THIS ATTRACTION IN LONDON
The Beaufort, Knightsbridge, London
Searcys Roof Garden Rooms, Kensington, London
Blakes Hotel, South Kensington, London
The Cranley Hotel, Bina Gardens, London
The Mayflower Hotel and Apartments, Earls Court, London
New Linden Hotel, West London, London
Twenty Nevern Square Hotel, Kensington, London
Montagu Place Hotel, West London, London