Faraday Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Westminster, Inner London
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Closed — opens Monday at 9am
🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryEducational
What’s there
- Limited parking
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
No museum car park. Limited metered parking on Albemarle Street; nearest public car parks are on Old Burlington Street and Arlington Street. Four Blue Badge bays on Mayfair Place and three on Cork Street. Inside the Congestion Charge zone. Bicycle parking on Bond Street.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Faraday Museum sits inside the Royal Institution, the London home of scientific discovery and lectures since 1799. Its lower ground floor shows real apparatus used in famous experiments, including the first electrical transformer and the tube that explained why the sky is blue, alongside a recreation of Michael Faraday's magnetic laboratory as it looked in the 1850s. Across from it, a modern nanotechnology lab shows how far the subject has come. Upstairs and on the ground floor, displays cover the people behind the institution, from Humphry Davy and Ada Lovelace to a run of Nobel Prize winners, plus props and film clips from famous lectures. A short chemical elements game tests reaction times. Older children and curious teenagers will get the most from it, and the museum is free to enter, though some events charge. It suits a rainy afternoon in central London.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Rucksack
- Kids' headphones
- Travel games
- Portable phone charger
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