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Also known as The Science Museum, Science Museum, London

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

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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.

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