The British Museum

The British Museum has one of the largest libraries in the world. It has a copy of every book that is printed in the English language, so that thereare more than six million books there. They receive nearly two thousand books and papers daily.The British Museum Library has a very big collection of printed books and manuscripts, both old and new. You can see beautifully illustrated old manuscripts which they keep in glass cases.

You can also find there some of the first English books printed by Caxton. Caxton was a printer who lived in the fifteenth century. He made the first printing-press in England.In the reading-room of the British Museum many famous men have read and studied.Charles Dickens, a very popular English writer and the author of 'David Copperfield', 'Oliver Twist', 'Dombey and Son' and other books, spent a lot of time in the British museum Library.  

The Science Museum has a dedicated library, and until the 1960s was Britain's National Library for Science,Medicine and Technology. It holds runs of periodicals, early books and manuscripts, and is used by scholarsworldwide. It has for a number of years been run in conjunction with the Library of Imperial College, but in 2007 theLibrary was divided over two sites. Histories of science and biographies of scientists are still kept at the ImperialCollege in London. The rest of the collection which includes original scientific works and archives are now located inWroughton, Wiltshire.

Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester)

The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology and industry with emphasis on the city's achievements in these fields. The museum is part of the Science Museum Group, a non-departmental public body of theDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport, having merged with the National Science Museum in 2012.[2]

There are extensive displays on the theme of transport (cars, aircraft, railway locomotives and rolling stock), power (water, electricity, steam and gas engines), Manchester's sewerage and sanitation,textiles, communications and computing.

The museum is an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage; and is situated on the site of the world's first railway station - Manchester Liverpool Road - which opened as part of theLiverpool and Manchester Railway in September 1830. The train station frontage and 1830 warehouseare both Grade I listed. The museum also offers steam train rides at weekends and on bank holidays.

The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology and industry with emphasis on the city's achievements in these fields. The museum is part of the Science Museum Group, a non-departmental public body of theDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport, having merged with the National Science Museum in 2012.[2]

There are extensive displays on the theme of transport (cars, aircraft, railway locomotives and rolling stock), power (water, electricity, steam and gas engines), Manchester's sewerage and sanitation,textiles, communications and computing.

The museum is an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage; and is situated on the site of the world's first railway station - Manchester Liverpool Road - which opened as part of theLiverpool and Manchester Railway in September 1830. The train station frontage and 1830 warehouseare both Grade I listed. The museum also offers steam train rides at weekends and on bank holidays.

Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester)

Opened in 1958 on the site of an old cinema that was destroyed in the Second World War, the planetarium seatedan audience of around 330 beneath a horizontal dome approximately 18 m in diameter. For its first five decades ofoperation, an opto-mechanical star projector offered the audience a show based on a view of the night sky as seenfrom earth. Between 1977 and 1990, evening laser performances called 'Laserium' were held. In 1995, one of theworld's first digital planetarium systems, Digistar 2 (created by Evans & Sutherland) was installed in a £4.5 millionredevelopment, allowing monochromatic 3D journeys through space and many other kinds of show to bepresented. The planetarium was used to teach students from University College London's astronomy departmentthe complexity of the Celestial coordinate system, allowing for practical lectures delivered by a unison ofplanetarium and UCL staff.

In 2004, the Planetarium was upgraded to a full-colour Digistar 3 system that allows both pre-rendered and real-time shows to transport the audience in an immersive fulldome video environment to distant realms of time andspace.

Opened in 1958 on the site of an old cinema that was destroyed in the Second World War, the planetarium seatedan audience of around 330 beneath a horizontal dome approximately 18 m in diameter. For its first five decades ofoperation, an opto-mechanical star projector offered the audience a show based on a view of the night sky as seenfrom earth. Between 1977 and 1990, evening laser performances called 'Laserium' were held. In 1995, one of theworld's first digital planetarium systems, Digistar 2 (created by Evans & Sutherland) was installed in a £4.5 millionredevelopment, allowing monochromatic 3D journeys through space and many other kinds of show to bepresented. The planetarium was used to teach students from University College London's astronomy departmentthe complexity of the Celestial coordinate system, allowing for practical lectures delivered by a unison ofplanetarium and UCL staff.

In 2004, the Planetarium was upgraded to a full-colour Digistar 3 system that allows both pre-rendered and real-time shows to transport the audience in an immersive fulldome video environment to distant realms of time andspace.

Opened in 1958 on the site of an old cinema that was destroyed in the Second World War, the planetarium seatedan audience of around 330 beneath a horizontal dome approximately 18 m in diameter. For its first five decades ofoperation, an opto-mechanical star projector offered the audience a show based on a view of the night sky as seenfrom earth. Between 1977 and 1990, evening laser performances called 'Laserium' were held. In 1995, one of theworld's first digital planetarium systems, Digistar 2 (created by Evans & Sutherland) was installed in a £4.5 millionredevelopment, allowing monochromatic 3D journeys through space and many other kinds of show to bepresented. The planetarium was used to teach students from University College London's astronomy departmentthe complexity of the Celestial coordinate system, allowing for practical lectures delivered by a unison ofplanetarium and UCL staff.

In 2004, the Planetarium was upgraded to a full-colour Digistar 3 system that allows both pre-rendered and real-time shows to transport the audience in an immersive fulldome video environment to distant realms of time andspace.Opened in 1958 on the site of an old cinema that was destroyed in the Second World War, the planetarium seatedan audience of around 330 beneath a horizontal dome approximately 18 m in diameter. For its first five decades ofoperation, an opto-mechanical star projector offered the audience a show based on a view of the night sky as seenfrom earth. Between 1977 and 1990, evening laser performances called 'Laserium' were held. In 1995, one of theworld's first digital planetarium systems, Digistar 2 (created by Evans & Sutherland) was installed in a £4.5 millionredevelopment, allowing monochromatic 3D journeys through space and many other kinds of show to bepresented. The planetarium was used to teach students from University College London's astronomy departmentthe complexity of the Celestial coordinate system, allowing for practical lectures delivered by a unison ofplanetarium and UCL staff.

In 2004, the Planetarium was upgraded to a full-colour Digistar 3 system that allows both pre-rendered and real-time shows to transport the audience in an immersive fulldome video environment to distant realms of time andspace.