Ever thought Time & Space & Earthquakes where your thing? Then check out the Scicnce Museums’ exibitions. They are really good, you can fnd things out that you never knew before.. There are direct links from Kings Cross and Finsburys Park. Easy to get to and Free Admission. What are you waiting for?

I loved this museum when i first visited it (1-2 years ago) huge amount of interactive exhbits such as the many computer related technology on display. Theres also a 3d cinema (IMAX) and a huge amount of other stuff to keep kids and adults of all ages entertained for at least a day or two.

London’s most exciting museum, I’ve visited SM since I was a little girl and still love it as much now as I did then.

This is in no small part thanks to the interactive features. The basement used to be the kid friendly area back in the 80s but now there’s a whole Wellcome wing designed to get kids and adults involved in science. Find out what you might look like as a 90 year old, scan your retina and generally do all types of amaizng things.

As well as that you can learn all about space and trains to name but a few. Hurrah.

The worst thing is the long walk down a bypass from South Kensington tube which I have nicknamed ‘the underpass of DOOM’. It’s really long, and rubbish!

Great for the kids and adults alike. Lots of free activities for the children in the basement section. Still rebuilding the big playzone they used to have. The interactive areas of the body and the future zone are particularly good for education. Beware that the Imax 3D films sell out early on the weekends with big queues

Lots of things to do, lots of hands on exhibits. Something for all ages.

Whether you’re a kid, an engineer, or someone who wants to learn (or maybe all three), London’s Science Museum is a top-notch place for it.

This place is huge, and you can find all aspects of science (especially applied science) here. How do we create power? How have we travelled in space? How do antennae work? Materials? Agriculture? Weather? Math? Computing? It’s all here, and lots more.

My favourite bits are actually ‘way up on the 4th and 5th floors, on the history of medicine. It’s fascinating to see what tools doctors used hundreds of years ago.

Best of all: most of it is free. There are sometimes some special exhibits that incur a charge, but I’ve always heard these are worth it. Last year’s kid’s exhibit on the technology of spying and espionage was informative and very interactive: my 10-year old nephew loved it.

Some special exhibits are free, though. I saw the exhibit on plastics last year and it was absolutely fascinating: it’s still there until Jan 2009!

There’s a café in the basement. They have an IMAX cinema. There are a number of simulation rides. And the gift shop is truly a wonder: it’s a great place to buy gifts and books for kids that want to experiment and learn.

It’s a grand building, well-suited to housing big objects and big ideas.

the science museum is absolutely brilliant in every way. i have loved it since i was a child, but i never thought i could enjoy it so much even now. its really educational for children and adults alike, i dont think ive ever learnt more about science anywhere else! if you have friends visiting from abroad, the science museum it definitely the number one spot to take them first. it never gets boring either, theres always someting new and more interesting to catch your eye. i could wander about for hours!

Absolutely brilliant and entry is free! Kids and adults love the Launchpad and many of the other interactive exhibits

As we entered the Science Museum we made our way through the security line. In reality it was a person behind a counter checking bags. It was not very sophisticated and they didn’t even look at our pram or the bags that were under it. Overall, very unimpressive security. As you progress into the museum and down a ramps the first encounter is with a large circular wheel that has digital light wrapping around it. Itis suspened within a 3 story atrium. The red backdrop of the ceiling gives it a very futuristic feel.

Immediately on your left are some fine exhibits of some of the first steam machines. They are exquisite in the detail and they seem to suggest a period which is not long ago, almost as if you could remeber it if you think back early enough in your childhood. There is also a large red milling machine which looks as though if it could be packaged smaller it would be able to fit under the hood of your car. We paused in this inspiring space to allow our 3 year old girl to grasp it, afterall this day was about her.

After managing to find the bathrooms which are bit discreetly located in back corridor, we first visted the Pattern Pod, “a hands-on gallery that was created especially for children 5-8 year of age and their parents” (http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk) One section of this area is devoted to prints -- duck feet, dog paws, a jumping robot and a baby crawling. These prints are layed out on the floor and then light up in red when a child properly replicates their movement. Then their are corresponding shapes and pictures of the four on the wall. The portion that I thought was the coolest (parent speaking here) was a small kiosk with clear plastic shards (smooth), each with a pattern on it. Once you take this shard and place it in another slot the wall lights up and the pattern is replicated over and over again to form a beautiful picture. It is suggestive of the original Superman movie where he can communicate with his father through a crystal shard. Because we were visiting on a Sunday we were finding that the place was crawling (literally sometimes) with children. If you are able, visiting during a week would be a lot calmer experience.

Next, we went downstairs in the basement to the Garden, “an interactive gallery created especially for our very youngest visitors” This place was swarming with bodies, but we were a bit disappointed. It had some interesting areas; one where children are provided with a water jacket, another with mirrors and several that play on acoustics. Overall though it seemed like a glorified playground, but I think that was the intent. To give children that have been couped up in a museum the chance to release some energy. On a less busy day maybe it would be more affective.

The final exhibit that we had the opportunity to visit during our 2.5 hour visit was Launchpad. After queuing for about 20 minutes we were able to go into this area. While many of the displays and activities are for older children (ages 8-11 suggested by the museum) there is still plenty of enjoyment for those younger. The bubble blowing tank, with special tongs to creat unusual bubbles is quite nifty. One exhibit requires you to pump water up into a tank. Once the tank is full it releases the water down a tube and operates a waterwheel which powers an LCD video camera that shows you on the screen. While it is quite clever it takes quite an effort to pump the water into the tank. Maybe that is the point…electricity requires a lot of resources. There are many more displays and you could easily spend an hour here, which is the suggested time. The favourite of our children was the magnet area. There are large magnetic discs with loads of large steel washers and spoons to play with. Some of the older children were trying to build magnetic bridges, but our little girls were just having fun pulling the metal off the magnetics. Who has time to build stuff when you can just as easily understand how it works by taking it apart?

Whether you are a tourist visiting London or a resident the science museum is well worth a stop. We will make it a point to visit on many more occasions. There is still plenty left to see and the exhibits will change over time. In addition, with the Natural History Museum next door and the Victoria Albert Museum across the the street you will not get bored in South Kensington. While you can choose to make a day of it as we did and begin at Paddington with a pleasant walk through Hyde Park culminating at the Science Museum it is very easy to get here directly by taking the tube and getting off at South Kensington.

I has great exhibitions, that vary during the year.

The children’s section is the best! Interactive games and working models for you to try out! Such fun! :)

Its a must to go to, any time of the year and in any weather!

I love the science museum. Perfect for families with young children and just as good for bored twentysomethings at the weekend.

The museum claims to have over 300,000 items including (most famously) Stephenson's Rocket and the first jet engine. There is also a new 3D imax theatre in the museum. Also worth checking out the digital technology wing (if you are an uber geek that is!). If you do have children, it's worth checking out "science night". On science night, the museum opens its doors to about 400 kids (+ parents) and the children get to do a bunch of fun, science based activities, followed by spending the night in the museum!

This museum is good whatever age you are, I had most of my fun on the kids things and am 23! Downstairs they have things that take a picture of your shadow and those glass spheres with electric currents running through them. The environmental section is very hands-on and I like to spend about an hour in this section pretending to be president of cities and silly things like that. The plastic section is quirky, they even have a large piece of plastic that reactions to your changing emotions, fantastic! It is always a pleasure to go here.

Great place to take the kids, especially to the launch pad facility, where they can learn and have fun until their hearts are content.
I find machines and stuff a bit boring, but the exhibit with all the globes and scientific instruments from the 17th and 18th century was really interesting - they really did make the most mundane tools look really elegant! I spent a bit of time in there. The space things are always interesting and cool to see Helen Sharmans space suit.

This hands-on museum has to be my favourite of all time, dating from when I was a toddler and I made friends with the bubble blower in the kids section. Its now my turn to take my younger brothers and sisters and they love it just as much as I did and still do. Its not unusual to see a middle-aged parent sneaking a quick turn on the electricity-generating bike that lights up the lamps, or on the sand factory. However, the museum is also great for adults and older children who are interested in Science, even if they know nothing about it, since the explanations are very interesting and clear. There are "real" (!) steam trains and early models of cars, as well as space rockets, models of the human body, and - the best bit - a flight pad where kids can "fly" an aeroplane with their feet. Add to that the funky glass elevators, the picnic benches and the helpful staff, and you have many happy hours thoroughly enjoying the science that you hated in school.

The Science Museum - for me - alternated between brilliant and irritating. The irritating bit was mainly the layout, which is confusing and frustrating when you can't figure out how to get from one place to another. The powers that be have tried to make it easier by putting interactive maps at lots of places but it is sometimes hard to interpret their instructions. A simpler layout wouldn't have caused the problem in the first place. Rant over, I have to say the Science Museum is a brilliant day out whether or not you have children with you. Though most of the exhibitions are free, the Simulator rides and the 3D movie are not. The simulator (the big one) was not working the two days that I visited recently so I can't comment on it but the 3D movie is absolutely fantastic. I've seen the Dinosaurs one and the Deep Sea creatures one and both are really interesting and have just the right mix of information and 3D stuff. I really enjoyed them and so did my niece and nephew (age 7 and 9). Another really cool section is the Know Yourself section. There's an exhibit that takes photos of you and ages you up or down. It didn't work on the female members of our group but when we aged up my nephew he was the spitting image of his dad. It was uncanny! The Plastics exhibition is also worth a visit and I also enjoyed the models of machines from the last few centuries. The cafe is overpriced and not very good and the shop is also overpriced but a good place to pick up unusual gifts.

This wonderful museum has been a huge attraction to our family since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and it still captivates us, even now.

Free to enter, the Museum Guide at £2 is a really good buy otherwise you can easily waste all day wandering around looking at intriguing displays but not actually getting to where you originally inteded to visit. Floors 3, 4 and 5 are dedicated primarily to health, medicine and flight which never seem to be as busy as the floors below ... so if you need to escape the crowds, do have a look around up there.

The IMAX cinema offers 3D films for anything up to £24 (2 adults, 2 children). There are some wonderful areas for children to explore, everything in this museum is hands-on so you can really experience things - the best way to learn, of course.

You can also try to SimEx Stimulator ride on the ground floor which is reasonably-priced at £4 per adult, £ per child ('tho you can get hold of a combi ticket for the SimEx and IMAX). I've not had the patience to wait to get on this ride but from all accounts its well worth the nominal fee.

The Science Museum really is child-friendly, in that you can unpack your picnic for your brood anywhere in the museum that isn't carpeted, if you don't fancy paying out for cafe prices (there are 2 - usual London steep prices apply). There are also seats dotted throughout the musuem for those tired feet.

Well worth a day - or three - of exploration with children of all ages!

Probably just about better than I thought it would be, the Science of Spying exhib, which is on till september time. Lot of different things for the kids to do, I took two 9 year olds and they loved it. Also it's timed entry so they get to try out the popular experiements/exhibits without more and more people piling in, very simple but makes all the difference!