Free entry Open daily, 10.00–18.00 Science Museum Exhibition Road London SW7 2DD View on Google Maps

Book your free entry ticket for a fun filled family day out. You could step onto a Marvel filmset, discover the spectacular science of Versailles, try one of our family-friendly trails, or pop along to a volunteer-led tour.. Tickets are currently available to book up until Sunday 20 July 2025. Sign up to our newsletter for the latest on when new dates will be going live.

Jun 13, 2018 · The Victorian mental asylum has the reputation of a place of misery where inmates were locked up and left to the mercy of their keepers. But when the first large asylums were built in the early 1800s, they were part of a new, more humane attitude towards mental healthcare.

Feb 23, 2021 · Nearly ten years later in 1937, while investigating microorganisms and the substances they produced, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain uncovered Fleming’s research and assembled a team of scientists to work solely on the 'Penicillin Project'.

Jul 18, 2024 · We offer free carer tickets for all paid activities and exhibitions. These are currently unavailable to book via the website so you can either book online without carers’ tickets and then email the Contact Centre at [email protected] with your order number, and the team will be able to add free carer tickets onto the order. . Alternatively, you can call the …

Opening times The museum is open daily from 10.00–18.00 (except for 24-26 December). Last entry is 17.15. You are welcome to stay in the museum as long as you like, but an average visit lasts around two hours.

Oct 14, 2018 · Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw invented the first iron lung at Harvard School of Public Health.It consisted of a huge metal box with a set of bellows attached at one end to pump air in and out. The whole body was enclosed in an airtight chamber, apart from the head.

The nearest tube station is South Kensington. This is on the District, Circle and Piccadilly lines and is a 5-minute walk from the museum. Gloucester Road tube station is also on the District, Circle and Piccadilly lines and is a 15-minute walk from the museum.

Apr 25, 2019 · The impact of the bubonic plague epidemics of the past still echo across the centuries, reminding us of the devastation that disease can inflict on communities. The Black Death is the name given to the first wave of the plague that swept across Europe in the 1300s.

Jul 18, 2023 · Charles Babbage first announced the invention of the Difference Engine, his first calculating machine, in a paper read at the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 June 1822, as A note respecting the application of machinery to the calculation of astronomical tables.. This section of Babbage’s Different Engine No. 1, with about 2,000 parts, was built by his engineer …