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Royal Botanic Gardens, KewvsScience Museum
Both are rated highly by professionals. Overall, Science Museum is preferred by most professionals compared to Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Science Museum comes in at 93 with praise from 7 sources including Michelin Guide, Lonely Planet and Travel + Leisure.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Frommer's
Travel + Leisure
Time Out
Let's Go
Michelin Guide Michelin Guide
Kew Road, Richmond, Kew TW9 3AB
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Fodor's "Enter the Royal Botanic Gardens, as Kew Gardens are officially known, and you are enveloped by blazes of color, extraordinary blooms, hidden trails, and lovely old follies." Full review
Frommer's "It's essentially a vast scientific research center that also happens to be extraordinarily beautiful." Full review
Travel + Leisure "Victorian-era greenhouses and the sprawling grounds overflow with 33,000 species of flowers, plants, and trees (the world’s largest living collection)." Full review
Time Out "Kew Gardens is a magnificent World Heritage Site covering 300 acres with over 30,000 species of plants." Full review
Let's Go "These botanical gardens host the largest collection of plants in the world, and visitors can eat up gorgeous assemblages of roses, orchids, and cacti (or be eaten up by the carnivorous plants)." Full review
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
" Built between 1844 and 1848, it houses practical tropical species (coffee, cocoa) and more ornamental varieties." Full review
Michelin Guide 3 Stars
"The finest botanical gardens in the country were begun by Sir William Chambers in 1756 at the request of Augusta, Princess of Wales." Full review
Science Museum Fodor's
Concierge Time Out Michelin Guide Travel + Leisure
Condé Nast Traveler Frommer's
Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD
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Fodor's "This, one of the three great South Kensington museums, stands next to the Natural History Museum in a far plainer building." Full review
Concierge "Covering all aspects of science, technology, and medicine, the Science Museum is the star of the trio of museums on Exhibition Road (the others are the V&A and the Natural History Museum)."
Time Out "The Science Museum features seven floors of educational and entertaining exhibits, including the Apollo 10 command module and a flight simulator." Full review
Michelin Guide 3 Stars
"This temple to the sciences - 5 floors covering 5ha in all - is remarkable for the richness of its collections, and for the methods it employs to engage visitors." Full review
Travel + Leisure "Families flock to this museum, as do school kids taking part in field trips (380,000 visit as part of a school group each year)." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler "Behind the columns of this stoic 19th-century building are seven floors of mind-bending exhibits, and kids with eyes the size of dinner plates." Full review
Frommer's "The country's pre-eminent museum of science, this is one of the capital's great interactive experiences, filled with buttons to press, levers to pull, and experiments to absorb you." Full review
