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The Science Museum is an amazing place to visit Even visitors who go there thinking they weren't really interested in science tend to soon find out that they are in fact interested, amazed, and fascinated by science The Science Museum is a big place where many of the objects which you know exist in the physical scientific world are there for you to see on exhibition Often bigger than expected, and sometimes taken apart in detail so you can see how they work As well as a great many machines ancient and modern exhibited as intriguing artefacts of technology, there are many hands-on working displays where you can have a go! Press the button, turn the handle, and see the earth move from day to night an back again, and see for yourself how it works! Children are fascinated in these have-a-go machines, and you don't need to be a child to try it Marvelling at the wonders of science has no age limit

A museum of any sort usually has treasures which are kept and looked after because they're very old and precious, and it's true that at the Science Museum there are some historic relics of a scientific nature, but many of the exhibits aren't old or of any antiquity, but are entirely educational So, for example, there's a light aircraft which is bolted to the floor, and you can climb into the pilot's seat and see how the tail moves when you move the controls A large parabolic dish into which you can talk and be heard a considerable distance away at another large parabolic dish Handles you can turn and see the mechanism moving Although some people say "Science is an academic subject", the fact is that at the Science Museum you can experience scientific things for yourself and see how it makes sense

It is astonishing to see the range and diversity of inventions which humanity has created, and there examples of extraordinary machines which have been built, often expertly restored and put on show for folk to witness A gas turbine powered car, mechanical computer as per design by Babbage, a Foucault pendulum, early variants of the Space Shuttle, some choice railway locomotives, these are just examples - amazing things which merit such expressions as "you don't see that every day"

The Science Museum is effectively a Theme Park about Science,although it's been there since before the term "Theme Park" was invented In fact the idea of having a museum of science is quite a clever idea in itself It is an inspiration to future generations

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