London - Scientific Discipline Museum

Entrance to the Science Museum

The Science Museum is i of the iii major museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London inward the Royal Borough of Kensington together with Chelsea. It is business office of the National Museum of Science together with Industry. The museum is a major London tourist attraction.

DNA reconstruction model built past times Crick together with Watson inward 1953

Like other publicly funded national museums inward the United Kingdom, the Science Museum does non levy an admission charge. Temporary exhibitions, however, do ordinarily incur an admission fee.

Stephenson's Rocket

Apollo 10 Command Module inward the Modern World Gallery

Collections

The Science Museum at i time holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including such famous items equally Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive), the commencement jet engine, a reconstruction of Francis Crick together with James Watson's model of DNA, some of the earliest remaining steam engines, a working illustration of Charles Babbage's Difference engine, the commencement image of the 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now, together with documentation of the commencement typewriter

. It besides contains hundreds of interactive exhibits. H5N1 recent add-on is the IMAX 3D Cinema showing scientific discipline together with nature documentaries, virtually of them inward 3-D, together with the Wellcome Wing which focuses on digital technology. Entrance has been costless since 1 Dec 2001.

 Making the Modern World gallery from above

The museum houses some of the many objects collected past times Henry Wellcome closed to a medical theme. The quaternary flooring exhibit is called "Glimpses of Medical History", alongside reconstructions together with dioramas of the history of goodness medicine. The 5th flooring gallery is called "Science together with the Art of Medicine", alongside exhibits of medical instruments together with practices from ancient days together with from many countries. The collection is rigid inward clinical medicine, biosciences together with world health. The museum is a fellow member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.

The Science Museum has a dedicated library, together with until the 1960s was Britain's National Library for Science, Medicine together with Technology. It holds runs of periodicals, early on books together with manuscripts, together with is used past times scholars worldwide.

 It has for a lay out of years been run inward conjunction alongside the Library of Imperial College, merely inward 2007 the Library was divided over 2 sites. Histories of scientific discipline together with biographies of scientists are soundless kept at the Imperial College inward London. The residuum of the collection which includes master scientific plant together with archives are at i time located inward Wroughton, Wiltshire.

The Science Museum's medical collections convey a global ambit together with coverage likely non bettered inward the world. Strengths include Clinical Medicine, Biosciences together with Public Health. The novel Wellcome Wing, alongside its focus on Bioscience, makes the Museum the world's leading centre for the presentation of contemporary scientific discipline to the public.