Science Museum, London

Science Museum
The Science Museum
Science Museum, London is located in Central London
Science Museum, London
Location within central London
Established
  • 1857; 167 years ago (1857)
  • (separate status formalised 1909)
Location
Coordinates51°29′51″N 0°10′29″W / 51.49750°N 0.17472°W / 51.49750; -0.17472
Visitors2,956,886 (2023)[1]
DirectorIan Blatchford
Public transit access
Websitewww.sciencemuseum.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata
Science Museum Group

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.

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