science museum

Science Museum

Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD

Origin and history Patent Office Museum at south end of Brompton Boilers (exterior)

Science Museum, London, 9 May 1919

Origin and history

Collections The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300,000 items

The museum is divided into a large number of galleries

- Power east hall- Flight - Mathematics - Measuring Time - Computing - Cosmos & Culture - Making the Modern World - ………..

Power east hallCollections

Stephenson's Rocket

Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive)

Collections Computer hall

The PDP-8, or Straight-8 minicomputer

Charles Babbage's Difference engine

Glimpses of Medical History Collections

Diorama “The Discovery of Anaesthetics”

Glimpses of Medical History Collections

The leather covered medicine chest

Collections Medicine and Biology

half-scale anatomical model of a horse

The heart of a living person

Collections Cosmos & Culture

Apollo spacecraft Joint European X-ray Telescope (JET-X)

Collections Flight

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Welcome to the Museum of Science