Natural History Museum well worth it, Science Museum not so much

Well my daughter had a few days off for her birthday so we chose to use the time, with her youngest brother, to travel down to London for the day. She had expressed an interest in visiting the Natural History Museum again so off we went on our early gaunt. Being at the beginning of the line makes it a pretty easy journey right down to Marylebone station.Topping up our Oyster card when there was a faff, however I think we are all ok with it now, what was great though was a London transport online mobile site that tells you where to get on and off the tube to arrive at your destinations, so we did actually arrive with ease to view a major queue. Amazingly just a quick look at the signs did show an alternative entrance which turned out to have NO queue! I have to say The Natural History Museum is a national treasure, just superb. We loved every second, the exhibits are well set out, allow flow of people and there is so much.

This was not however the case for The Science Museum we went to afterwards being only down the road, what a dated awful display. I love Science and this would put so many people off especially the fact to actually see anything interesting you have to fork out £17 each, there were several displays each at this cost which we were not about to pay for having had to pay for travel down to London already. I felt the free section was like going back twenty years, exhibits with labels and not even original ones to look at either. In retrospect we should have then gone to the V and A. However we did misread the information for this and presumed it was a museum where you had to pay to enter but this was only for the Alexander McQueen exhibition and everything else in their VAST display is free. Well at least we can do that next time. We have several things on our list for next time but that is for another blog!!!!

Having come out of the Science museum post haste we then chose to do shopping!! yea......rerouting ourselves to Selfridges and Schuh, one of my nieces designs fantastic clothes one of which had been chosen to front the Schuh campaign, she had noted that it was up on display however I think we missed the boat on that one only to find it later showing in Solihull. Selfridges became our friend as we had another fun run around just looking and lusting after the goods. I did however buy another shirt identical to one I bought last year as it was so fantastic from there however not in the sale : (

Amazingly that took us to the time for leaving for the train..... a lovely short trip......but another in the planning.