The Faraday Museum

Bill writes: The Faraday Museum is a small museum tucked away in the basement of the Royal Institution, just down and around the corner from the Royal Academy. The woman at the Royal Institution made sure to ask me if I knew what the museum was like, since it was so small, she didn't want me to be disappointed. But it was quite a good little museum. After a while, a person gets a bit burnt out on the giants like the Victoria and Albert or the Science Museum. And the British Museum is like a Costco of human experience. Too much perspective and too little insight. So it's good to get to a museum where you can focus a bit.

The Faraday Museum displays the room in the basement of the Royal Institution in which the scientist Michael Faraday conducted many of his experiments in electro-magentism.





So it contains items like the first transformer, which he invented, to show that if electricity can produce magnetism, magnetism can produce electricity .