Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in a small, dusty laboratory at St Mary’s Hospital in 1928. This discovery triggered a revolution in the medical world, and few people have benefited from it. The laboratory has been restored to its old, small condition when a petri dish became contaminated with bacteria by a mysterious fungus

In the Sherlock Holmes Museum you can experience how Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson lived on 221b Baker Street from 1881-1904, according to the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The house was last used as a guest house in 1936 and the famous study on the 1st floor, from which you overlook Baker Street,

Tate Britain, until 1932 the National Gallery of British Art and then the Tate Gallery, is housed on the site of the former Millbank Prison. The main building was designed by Sidney R. J. Smith with a classicist colonnade and a dome vault. Construction started in 1893 and the museum was opened on July 21,

Tate Modern is the national museum for international modern art from 1900 till today. It is part of the family of 4 Tate museums, all of which exhibit part of the Tate collection. The museum has been housed since 2000 in a disused power station on the Thames. The Tate Boat maintains a regular service

The HMS Belfast served in the 2nd World War and played a leading role in the sinking of the German warship the Scharnhorst and the invasion off the coast of Normandy. The ship served until 1965 and in 1971 it was spared for the demolition hammer. It is now a museum ship to give an