Science Museum, London

The Science Museum ( Science Museum ) is a museum in London, South Kensington, Cromwell Road, where the presentation of the development of research and technology is at the center. It is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry ( National Museum of Science and Industry ). The museum is a London tourist attraction, admission is free.

History

1857 Today's Science Museum was founded. Previously, it was still the South Kensington Museum. It belonged at that time to the opposite Victoria and Albert Museum, was founded in 1909 but made ​​independent of this and moved into the building in 1913 by Richard Allison. Prince Albert and Sir Henry Cole built with funds from the Great Exhibition to the collection. Since the division of the Museum in 1950, this part bears the official name National Museum of Science and Industry.

Exhibitions

The museum consists of seven different levels, in which various galleries in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, biochemistry, electronics, navigation, aviation and photography are presented. Notable pieces include a telescope by Galileo Galilei and a microscope by George Adams, the oldest surviving steam locomotive in the world, " Puffing Billy ," the world's first telephone by Alexander Graham Bell and an old automobile from Rolls- Royce.

In 1980 the " Wellcome Museum " ( Museum of the History of Medicine ) was placed based on the collection of Henry Wellcome at the Science Museum. The Wellcome Wing of the Science Museum documents cutting-edge science, industry, medicine and technology in a clear way.

On the fifth floor there is a series of dioramas showing the various medical treatments for various periods from ancient Egypt to today very clearly ( " Glimpses of Medical History ").

The history of medicine is the theme of the sixth. There is "The Science and Art of Medicine " housed, here you can find a variety of methods of treatment divided by time periods.

Attached to the museum is a 3D IMAX theater.

As with probably all technical museums may also at the Science Museum, only a fraction ( here less than 10 %) of the collection that the majority is stored. In particular, for large exhibits lack of space in the London Archive Blythe House. In the 1970s, was therefore started, first the aircraft at the former RAF airfield during the Second World War in Wroughton in Swindon ( Wiltshire) to convert. Meanwhile, more than 18,000 high-volume collection pieces are incorporated in seven former hangars. Currently, the collection is only available for groups by prior arrangement. (Coordinates of receipt: 51 ° 30 ' 38 " N, 1 ° 48' 43 " W51.510555555556 - 1.8119444444444 )