Part of the National Museum of Science and Industry, the Science Museum was founded in 1857 as part of the South Kensington Museum and became independent in 1909. Exhibitions have won countless awards for design, innovation and the use of multimedia.

Originally made up of objects from the 1851 Great Exhibition, the Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including the oldest surviving steam locomotive (Puffing Billy), the first jet engine, a reconstruction of Francis Crick and James Watson's model of DNA, and specs for the first typewriter. 

Address

Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2DD

Getting There

Tube: District, Circle and Piccadilly lines (South Kensington).

Bus: Line 360 (Victoria & Albert Museum, stop K)