Science Museum - A great day out (Science Museum (London))

Member Name: dove3066

Product:	Science Museum (London)
Date:	03/02/09 (42 review reads)
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Advantages: Free, ever changing exhibitions, Fun but also educational

Disadvantages: Catering is expensive and busy

We decided to have a post New Year trip to the science museum recently as we hadn't been for a couple of years and thought we would catch up. We only had an afternoon to spare - as we had visted Ripleys in the morning. As the museum is free now we thought this would be a good way to balance up the cost of the morning.

We hadn't had time to sort any lunch out before leaving home and thought that the museum would provide a reasonable cafe where we could grab an sandwich or some snack - Oh how we were wrong there.

The deep Blue Cafe was waiter service and not really what we were looking for so we opted for the Revolution Cafe - whilst we didn't get there until 1:45 there was a huge queue even at this time and we didn't even get to the service point until after 2:00. We were then in for an even bigger surprise - the cost of the meals - sausage and chips at £8 and a small baked potato and cheese at £6.50. The childrens meals weren't much cheaper at £5.50 (but only for under 11's). We opted for sanwiches which were slightly better at the £4 mark but only for ordinary tuna and sweetcorn
the more adventurous varieties were nearer £5 & £6. Anyway after refuelling we set about visting the museum.

As we always seem to go from bottom to top and run out of time we thought we would start at the top and work our way down. The top two floors cover Veterinary history, science and the art of medicine. We found that these exhibitions could do with a revamp they were really bitty and difficult to follow. The timelines didn't flow and one minute you would be looking at ancient Greece and the next victorian England. It was also incredibly hot so we didn't really give it the attention we should have.

The day was saved as ever by Launchpad which is just great hands-on time for the kids. It does get busy but its well worth waiting for - you learn lots of things without even realising it.

There are lots of ever chnaging exhibitions - some which charge and some which don't so there will always be something new to see when you go.

Summary: Fantastic day or even just an afternoon or morning spent here is well worth it