The origins of the Science Museum lie in the nineteenth-century movement to improve scientific and technical education. Prince Albert was a leading figure in this movement, and he was primarily responsible for the Great Exhibition of 1851 to promote the achievements of science and technology. The profits of the hugely successful Exhibition were used to purchase land in South Kensington to establish institutions devoted to the promotion and improvement of industrial technology. At the same time, the Government set up a Science & Art Department which established the South Kensington Museum in 1857, from which the Science Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum have developed.

To get there from Star Hotel, take the tube from Hammersmith Station (Piccadilly Line) to South Kensington Station (Piccadilly Line). From the station, there are sign posts to the museums.


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   British Airways London Eye

   Tower of London museum

   Tower Bridge

   Buckingham Palace

   Madame Tussaud's

   London Planetarium

   National History Museum

   Tate Modern