Royal Observatory Greenwich |
SE10 8XJ London, Great Britain (UK) (Greater London) |
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| Address |
Blackheath Avenue, Greenwich
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| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Museum typ
Exhibition
Astronomy
- Surveying Equipment
- Clocks and Watches
- Planetarium
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Opening times
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10.00-17.00 | ||||
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Status from 10/2013
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Free entry. | ||||
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| Homepage | www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory | ||||
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| Location / Directions |
The National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, Queen's House and Royal Observatory are located in Greenwich, which is only 8 minutes by train from London Bridge. All attractions are only a short walk from the Cutty Sark DLR, local bus stops, Greenwich Pier and Greenwich and Maze Hill stations. The Royal Observatory and Planetarium are in Greenwich Park (walking time from Greenwich Station or Cutty Sark DLR to the Planetarium is usually approx 20-25 minutes). |
| Description | The Royal Observatory is the home of Greenwich Mean Time, the Prime Meridian of the World, London's only planetarium, the Harrison timekeepers and the UK's largest refracting telescope.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Observatory todayToday the buildings include a museum of astronomical and navigational tools, which is part of the National Maritime Museum, notably includingJohn Harrison's prize-winning longitude marine chronometer, H4, and its three predecessors, although all four are the property of the Ministry of Defence. Several additional horological artefacts are displayed, documenting the history of precision timekeeping for navigational and astronomical purposes, including the mid-20th-century Russian-made F.M. Fedchenko clock (the most accurate pendulum clock ever built in multiple copies). It also houses the 28-inch Grubb refracting telescope of 1893, the largest of its kind in the UK. The Shepherd Clock outside the observatory gate is an early example of an electric slave clock. In February 2005 construction began on a £15 million redevelopment project to provide a new planetarium and additional display galleries and educational facilities. The 120-seat Peter Harrison Planetarium opened on 25 May 2007. |
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