Science Museum, London

Science Museum
	The Science Museum
	Location within central London
Established	1857; 167 years ago; (separate status formalised 1909);
Location	Exhibition Road,; Kensington & Chelsea London, SW7 2DD; United Kingdom;
Coordinates	51°29′51″N 0°10′29″W / 51.49750°N 0.17472°W
Visitors	2,956,886 (2023)
Director	Ian Blatchford
Public transit access	South Kensington; Kensington Museums 360; Victoria & Albert Museum 14, 74, 414, C1;
Website	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Science Museum Group
	National Railway Museum Locomotion Museum; ; Science & Media; Science & Industry; Science Museum Dana Research Centre and Library; National Collections Centre; ;

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 3.3 million visitors annually in 2019.^[2]

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.

It is one of the five museums in the Science Museum Group.

^ "British Museum is the most-visited UK attraction again". BBC News. 18 March 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
^ "ALVA – Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (2019)". alva.org.uk. Archived from the original on 16 December 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2022.

[ALVA-1] "British Museum is the most-visited UK attraction again". BBC News. 18 March 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2024.

[ALVA_2019_visitor_numbers-2] "ALVA – Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (2019)". alva.org.uk. Archived from the original on 16 December 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2022.

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