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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
Europe's largest biomedical laboratory, behind St Pancras, with a free exhibition gallery on the ground floor about the research going on above it.
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The Crick opened in 2016 as the biggest biomedical research building in Europe, fifteen hundred scientists under one curved roof working on cancer, the brain, infection and the cell, and it keeps a public gallery by the entrance where the current exhibition explains one strand of that work with the researchers' own objects and film; it is free and small, and the building itself, glass and steel over four floors of laboratories, is the point of the visit for anyone who likes to see where science actually happens. The name honours the co-discoverer of DNA's structure, whose data came from Rosalind Franklin's lab at King's.
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |
Hours from the page that lists them, checked 5 September 2026.
Free; the current exhibition is We Go Way Back, on DNA and human origins. Booking is recommended for guaranteed entry and walk-ins are taken.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.