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Science Museum
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science museum in London, United Kingdom
Key facts
- Established
- 1857 ; 169 years ago ( 1857 ) (separate status formalised 1909)
- Location
- Exhibition Road , Kensington & Chelsea London, SW7 2DD United Kingdom
- Visitors
- 2,817,852 (2025)
- Director
- Ian Blatchford
- Public transit access
- South Kensington Kensington Museums 360 Victoria & Albert Museum 14 , 74 , C1
- Website
- www .sciencemuseum .org .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Archive
- Founded
- 1857
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 2,817,852 visitors in 2025.
Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, the Science Museum does not charge visitors for admission, although visitors are requested to make a donation if they are able. Temporary exhibitions may incur an admission fee.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Science Museum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.