The Science Museum as an institution was founded about a century and a half have been. It has its origins in the Universal Exhibition of 1851, in Hyde Park in the huge glass building known as the Crystal Palace instead. The popularity of the exhibition will be guaranteed a large financial surplus, which hit the patronage over Prince Albert used a number of educational institutions in the country should be found nearby. The first of these was the South Kensington Museum, opened in 1857 on a plot of land is now part of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
