The Science Museum

The Science Museum is one of the world's leading science and technology museums, located on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and occupies a large purpose-built building near the Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, forming part of the cultural quarter of South Kensington that grew out of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The museum's collections include Stephenson's Rocket, the Apollo 10 command module, and the first prototype of the jet engine, as well as extensive galleries on medicine, computing, space exploration, and the history of science. Admission to the main galleries is free.