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Museum of Life Sciences

Museum of Life Sciences is a natural history museum, University museum. It is within Southwark’s built-up area. Around it, within 15 km, lie 600 more places, Tower of London (1.1 km) first on our list.

Photo: Museum of Life Sciences, Matt Brown (CC BY 2.0)

Where

In Southwark

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 35%

#2,958 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–24°C

In brief

Museum in Southwark

Inside Southwark

Museum of Life Sciences is inside Southwark’s built-up area, with 353 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Month by month in Southwark

If warmth matters, go May to September: Southwark reaches 18–24°C.

Jan9° / 3°57 mm

Feb9° / 3°44 mm

Mar12° / 5°38 mm

Apr15° / 6°44 mm

May18° / 9°47 mm

Jun21° / 12°51 mm

Jul24° / 14°48 mm

Aug23° / 14°59 mm

Sep20° / 12°51 mm

Oct16° / 9°67 mm

Nov12° / 6°65 mm

Dec9° / 3°60 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Southwark, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Southwark. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Southwark’s full climate →

About

Museum of Life Sciences

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 2 languages.

Type: Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 2 languages
Town: in Southwark
Official site: kcl.ac.uk/health/study/facilities/lifesciences/index.aspx

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Finding Museum of Life Sciences

Orange shows Museum of Life Sciences; numbers mark the places near it.

Towns near it

Towns that list Museum of Life Sciences

Lambeth, with 317,108 people, is the largest of the 8. Its own town leads; the rest list it too, closest first.

1 · It’s in town

Southwark

307,076 people · 471 places to visit

2 · 600 m north of it

City of London

7,820 people · 432 places to visit

3 · 800 m northeast of it

Tower Hamlets

311,072 people · 430 places to visit

4 · 1.2 km south of it

Lambeth

317,108 people · 450 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Museum of Life Sciences is	People	Places to visit
Southwark	It’s in town	307,076	471
City of London	600 m north of it	7,820	432
Tower Hamlets	800 m northeast of it	311,072	430
Lambeth	1.2 km south of it	317,108	450
Westminster	1.8 km west of it	203,571	461
Camden	1.8 km northwest of it	209,342	458
Islington	1.8 km north of it	216,309	425
Hackney	2 km north of it	258,464	407

Make a day of it

Other places close by

Of the 600 within 15 km, look for 2 cathedrals, 2 attractions and a castle.

Big drawCastleTower of London1.1 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)2

Big drawMuseumBritish Museum3.2 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)3

Big drawArt galleryTate Modern900 m away · 1.2M visitors a year (2021)4

Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey2.6 km away 5

CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral1.4 km away 6

AttractionElizabeth Tower2.4 km away 7

AttractionLondon Eye2.1 km away 8

Historic houseBuckingham Palace3.7 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Museum of Life Sciences, answered

Where is Museum of Life Sciences?

Museum of Life Sciences is in Southwark, London, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Museum of Life Sciences?

Natural history museum, University museum in London.

When is the best time to visit Museum of Life Sciences?

May to September are the warmest months in Southwark, with afternoon highs of 18–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Museum of Life Sciences?

Within 15 km: Tower of London (1.1 km), British Museum (3.2 km), Tate Modern (900 m) and Westminster Abbey (2.6 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Museum of Life Sciences: Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tate Modern: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Paul's Cathedral: Mark Fosh, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
London Eye: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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