Science Museum

The Science Museum was founded in 1857 and is one of London's most visited tourist attraction, attracting some 2.7 million visitors annually. The Museum now holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including such famous items as Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive), the first jet engine, a reconstruction of Francis Crick and James Watson's model of DNA, some of the earliest remaining steam engines, a working example of Charles Babbage's Difference engine (and the latter, preserved half brain), the first prototype of the 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now, and documentation of the first typewriter.

Take the District, Circle or Piccadilly lines on the London Underground to South Kensington station and the Natural History Museum is a short walk away.

Science Museum Address: Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD