London Science Discovery Tour
Discover the Premier City of Scientific Study where London’s streets and landmarks are steeped in the stories of groundbreaking discoveries and centuries of scientific innovation.
A London Science Discovery Tour is unmissable because…
London is packed with fascinating places that tell the story of scientific discoveries. Explore where great scientists such as Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, and Alexander Fleming lived and worked. Experience these stories through dozens of special places from preserved laboratories, to museums packed with artefacts, to architectural engineering wonders.
The must-sees during a London Science Discover Tour include…
- London Science Museum: The world’s greatest museum of scientific artefacts, from Steam Engines to DNA, mechanical computers to the first jet engine.
- The Royal Institution: The father of electronic motor Michael Faraday’s original 1850s laboratory preserved at its original site.
- The Fleming Laboratory Museum: The preserved lab where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.
- Science City of London: Walk in the footsteps of 16th-century scientists Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren as they rebuild the City after the great fire.
- Science Bloomsbury: London’s University neighbourhood home to the Grant Museum of Zoology, founded by Charles Darwin’s mentor Robert Grant.
Book a Blue Badge Tourist Guide for your London Science Discovery Tour because…
- Blue Badge Tourist Guides are trained local specialists, holding the UK’s highest professional qualification for tourist guiding.
Your Blue Badge guide is booked exclusively for your family or group. - Blue Badge Tourist Guides provide insights into the most interesting, unusual, hidden gems and little-known stories from scientific London.
- The Science Museum can feel overwhelming with so much to see, let a Blue Badge Tourist Guide make the most of your visit through the fascinating stories of scientific London.
- Most importantly, tours are tailored to you. Let your guide know what you’re interested in or curious about, anything you’d particularly like to include. Your tour will be designed with this in mind.
- Many Blue Badge Tourist Guides who lead science tours have worked or still work as scientists, medical doctors, Science teacher’s so you’ll get the inside story.
- Let Blue Badge Tourist Guide create your bespoke itinerary – Fascinating accounts of the lives of great scientists and their discoveries in the very place history happened.
Please bear in mind that these are not public tours, but private tours conducted by specialist Blue Badge Tourist Guides who will charge a separate fee, details of which can be found on our Fees page.
Let us 'Match' you with one of our Blue Badge Tourist Guides who are:
- Friendly, professional and used to dealing with groups of all ages and sizes
- Holders of the prestigious Blue Badge (the highest Tourist Guiding qualification in the UK)
- Able to use special entrances at certain well known attractions to avoid waiting in long lines
- Able to offer tours in over 30 different languages
Simply input your tour request details in the form below. When you have finished, hit the Green ‘Submit to Match’ button. Your request will be instantly emailed to three highly qualified and enthusiastic London Blue Badge Tourist Guides, matching your criteria. They will then email you confirming availability, pricing and suggestions for the tour itself. So let one of our 500+ Blue Badge Tourist Guides make your stay in London a special one.
