The Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution

Uncover the scientific legacy of the Royal Institution at the Faraday Museum in Mayfair.

Housed in a grand building just off Piccadilly the museum, which is part of the Royal Institution, is named after English chemist and physicist, Michael Faraday. It has been home to 14 Nobel prize winners, and housed the laboratories of some of the world's greatest scientific minds, including Faraday himself, Humphry Davy, inventor of the Davy lamp, and crystallographer, Kathleen Lonsdale.

Find out about the important contributions made by RI members to the development of things we take for granted in the modern day. See actual objects built by them which went on to be used in famous experiments.

You’ll also be able to compare Faraday’s magnetic laboratory set out as it would have been in the 1850s, to a state-of-the-art nanotechnology lab and test your knowledge of the chemical elements in an interactive game.