The Science Museum, London, UK

The foundation of what is now the Science Museum harks back to the Great Exhibition of 1851. That exhibition was such a financial success that the profits were used to establish permanent collections, the first of which is what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum, just across Exhibition Road. The name Science Museum started to be used in 1885 but the East Block, still the current main entrance, was started in 1913 but not fully opened to the public until 1928. It has been London's premier museum of the physical sciences and technology ever since.

The Science Museum continues to expand, with the Wellcome Wing opened in 2000, with an IMAX 3D cinema, two simulator rides, and the hugely popular interactive LaunchPad has been enlarged and relocated to the 3rd floor.