Secrets & Espionage

Where the state kept its secrets and where the spies were made up: the bugged mansion, the bunkers, the headquarters you can only look at, the memorials to the agents, and the addresses of Bond and Smiley.

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Magic Circle Museum

Behind a discreet door near Euston, the headquarters of the society of magicians, whose members swear to keep the secrets and who let you in on tour nights.

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The Magic Circle has met since 1905 and has kept its headquarters on Stephenson Way since 1998: a theatre, a clubroom, a library, the helical staircase, and a museum of posters, props and apparatus from Maskelyne and Devant to the present, all of it visible only on the guided tours and show evenings. The members' oath is to keep the secrets of the craft, and the tours keep it, which is the fun.

Where
18-20 Stephenson Way, Fitzrovia, NW1 2DA
Nearest station
Euston Square · 1 min walk

Guided tours on selected dates, booked online

Ninety-minute tours of the headquarters and museum, for ages twelve and over; show nights as listed.

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