Science Museum London
Overview
Founded from the surplus of the 1851 Great Exhibition, it holds over 300,000 items: Stephenson's Rocket, the Apollo 10 command module, Crick and Watson's DNA model, and Babbage's Difference Engine. The Wellcome Galleries are the world's largest devoted to medicine. Free entry, four million visitors a year.
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