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See Faraday's 1850s magnetic laboratory at the Royal Institution
A free museum at the Royal Institution showing Michael Faraday's lab as it was, plus objects from 200 years of discoveries made in the building.
- Where
- Mayfair W1S
- Format
- Drop-in
- Cost
- Free
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