Science or Natural History Museum?

[LoughtonLion]

Hi. We're taking our 4 1/2 year old son, Alex to London this afternoon. Would either of these museums be more suitable than the other? Thanks for your help. Steve

Either would be great, but the dinosaurs at the Nat. Hist. swung it for us at that age.

oooh was just thinking about the Nat history Museum this week.
cant decide whether to drive to London or take the train

DCs are 8 and 6yo.

bit late but ex took ds's (7 and just 4) to Nat Hist last weekend - 4yo LOVED. Best things were a market place falling down and a big baby / film of baby growing inside womb.

Little plug here for the University of Oxford Museum of Natural History, for anyone in the area - lovely place, very old-fashioned but family-friendly, packed with stuff, including plenty of dino skeletons and a live bee colony (they can only get out into the open air, but you can see inside). Even very young children adore it. Activities at weekends and in school holidays. Also Pitt Rivers Museum in the same building, for the shrunken heads (though it an be a little scary for the very small).

Excuse me, back to London.

I would vote for the Natural History Museum. But you can easily pop into both - they are basically round the corner from one another. The NHM museum buiding is awesome, so that might be enough to swing it.