Exhibition Road
The financial success
of the Great Exhibition of 1851 helped fund this splendid
road of permanent exhibition halls. Some of the main ones
are.
Victoria and Albert Museum
A museum of fine and applied art of all countries, styles
and periods. It stands on the corner of Exhbition and
Cromwell Roads.
Natural History
Museum
The cathedral like terracotta erection of the Natural
History Museum followed a decision of the British Museum
trustees to move the natural history collection to South
Kensington
Science Museum
A number of exhibits from the great
exhibition of 1851 were housed in a number of separate
museums until in 1885 the science library was formed by an
amalgamation of several institutions. Amongst its exhibits
were Edison's first photograph and Stevensons first steam
engine. The exhibits grew into Britain's foremost museum of
science and industry and its library contains half a million
volumes of pure and applied science..
South Kensington
District , Circle and Pic lines
