The Science Museum (London, England)

Off to the Science Museum in London? See our insider advice for a queue-free visit as well as opening times and phone numbers!

Crowds

Closed Reopens Friday 16/04 at 10:00
Fri 16 Sat 17 Sun 18 Mon 19 Tue 20 Wed 21 Thu 22
10:00 11:00
11:00 12:00
12:00 16:00
16:00 18:00
Low
Medium
High
Very high
Closed

Our tips

How to avoid crowds

The Science Museum is usually pretty easy to visit and not too crowded!

Come at opening time as it’s the quietest time of the day: you’ll have a couple of hours before it fills up with visitors.

Go on a weekday for a quieter visit: Tuesday and Thursday are the calmest days.

The Science museum gets twice as busy during the school holidays: expect crowds and some queueing if your visit is during the summer holidays, October half term, Christmas holidays, February half term, Easter holidays or May half term. These are the busiest periods. On the other hand, the Museum closes one hour later on holidays, so prefer an afternoon visit, after 15:00-16:00 to avoid crowds.

Saturday is the busiest day.

Plan to eat lunch at the museum, there’s a cafe or restaurant on almost every floor. Leaving and re-entering the building just to have lunch outside will make you lose time as the building is huge!

The average visit time is about 3 hours.

Good to know

Entry to the Museum is free, but charges apply for the IMAX 3D Theatre, simulators and for some special exhibitions.

Explorer ticket (it includes an IMAX film, Legend of Apollo, Red Arrows 3D, Typhoon Force and a guidebook):

  • adult : £22.50
  • concession : £20.00
  • child 7+ : £19.00
  • child 4–7 : £19.00

IMAX 3D ticket (no simulators or special exhibitions included):

  • adult : £11.00
  • child/concession : £9.00
  • family of 3 (up to 2 adults) : £27.00
  • family of 4 (up to 2 adults) : £30.00

There is a Cloakroom in the museum: the price varies from £1.00 to £4.00 per item.

Science Museum Photo credits to rejar via Flickr

Contact Number

The Science Museum 020 7942 4000
Standard
Ticket booking 0870 870 4868
booking fee of £1 per ticket will be applied
Did this phone number work? YES NO
Thanks!
a99b0d2b-2faf-467a-b50f-8eab5e7afbba

Address

The Science Museum
📍 Exhibition Road South Kensington South Kensington
SW7 2DD
London

By Tube: South Kensington station (5 minute walk) or Gloucester Road station (15 minute walk)

By bus: routes 14, 49, 70, 74, 345, 360, 414, 430 and C1 stop outside South Kensington Underground Station.

By car: the nearest pay and display car park is at Prince Consort Road and Queen’s Gate.

By bicycle: docking stations are available outside the Museum on Exhibition Road and on Thurloe Place near South Kensington tube station.

Photo credits to Steph Gray via Flickr

Report an error

Feel free to comment or give your opinion on The Science Museum (London, England) . However, please agree to respect our terms. Please don’t post defamatory, insulting or disparaging comments- as we will have to moderate them. Instead, explain what happened in a factual way.

Have a question, problem, or tip? Share with our other visitors:

By using Hurikat, you agree to our use of cookies.

Learn more OK
https://www.waitamoment.co.uk/museums-monuments/science-museum-london/science-museum-london
www.waitamoment.co.uk
crawl=CC-MAIN-2021-17
65582
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:ZNJAW3PNXX4T5G4L66W4T7YE46F6QQVL
<urn:uuid:a0f39d39-fb8f-48d8-b3aa-005f01e97a09>
2021-04-16T08:57:06Z
172.67.203.156
text/html
sha1:R5JWCGOLUJ23BSOJAH54B2NIJ76ZBLQW
<urn:uuid:8f3304a4-9576-4e5a-b96c-6fd82cb43297>
https://www.waitamoment.co.uk/museums-monuments/science-museum-london/science-museum-london
response
<urn:uuid:d2dd299e-6d23-43a1-b079-389b8c5d13ec>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-17
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2021
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-191.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/