London Museum of Water & Steam

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London Museum of Water & Steam A historic pumping station in Brentford, London. Every donation helps us to keep the Museum doors open to visitors. Plus plenty of space for picnics.
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You can support us here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lmws
Registered Charity No: 269285 Don't miss:
💪 Discover how our pumping engines work with our hands-on exhibits. Get those muscles working and make that water move!
💦 The outdoor Splash Zone, with water play to dam, pump, spin, push and sq**rt water!
🌿 Massive mud kitchen in the Wild Play Garden, where you can make the best mud cakes in the world!
☕️ Café with delicious food and toys to play with so parents might even get to sit down and drink a hot cup of tea! Good to know:
🕙 Usually open Thursday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm (check our website for school holiday opening)
🎟 £19 adult tickets (valid for 12 months)
🎟 Kids go free
👕 Spares box with nappies and clothes in case you’re caught short.
☕️ Pump and Grind Café
🚌 Public transport: Buses 65, 237, 267, and 391. Trains: Kew Bridge. Underground: Gunnersbury

Did you see a familiar train (and a familiar face Richard Albanese!) on last Thursdays taskmaster? Jealous of ? You can ...
19/10/2026

Did you see a familiar train (and a familiar face Richard Albanese!) on last Thursdays taskmaster?

Jealous of ? You can take a ride on Wicksteed this weekend on our Train Day!

Something truly terrifying this Halloween 👻 What pigeons left us in our standpipe tower! The team have been working hard...
14/10/2026

Something truly terrifying this Halloween 👻 What pigeons left us in our standpipe tower! The team have been working hard clearing all this mess.

Gaussfest has SOLD OUT! We are no longer able to sell tickets. ⚡️
10/10/2026

Gaussfest has SOLD OUT! We are no longer able to sell tickets. ⚡️

Looking for a Halloween costume no one else will have? Why not dress as a cholera-präservative Victorian? These fashion...
07/10/2026

Looking for a Halloween costume no one else will have? Why not dress as a cholera-präservative Victorian? These fashion forward individuals represent an important part of water history. In the 19th century, clean drinking water was not a guarantee. Cholera was a killer no one could see 👀💧 Spooky!

Portrait einer Cholera-Präservative-Frau, von M.G. Saphir / Nürnberg bei P.C. Geissler. Geissler, Peter Carl, 1802-1872, engraver [ca. 1850]

A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.

Whether it’s steam or spooks you’re looking for, we got it all. Spend this spoooky season with us! 🎃⚙️
01/10/2026

Whether it’s steam or spooks you’re looking for, we got it all. Spend this spoooky season with us! 🎃⚙️

One from our archives….or maybe it’s a sign that you have to go to Brentford Flea Market on the 18th of October! For mor...
30/09/2026

One from our archives….or maybe it’s a sign that you have to go to Brentford Flea Market on the 18th of October!

For more information visit the link in our bio. Suffer not this opportunity to slip through your fingers!

Glad our company motto received the praise it deserves on Taskmaster Isy Suttie 💨⚙️ Our team ensures we say it every 20 ...
28/09/2026

Glad our company motto received the praise it deserves on Taskmaster Isy Suttie 💨⚙️ Our team ensures we say it every 20 minutes!

Did you see a familiar tower on last night’s episode of Taskmaster? Here’s some behind the scenes photos caught by our t...
11/09/2026

Did you see a familiar tower on last night’s episode of Taskmaster? Here’s some behind the scenes photos caught by our team with the hilarious Chloe Petts. Will you be watching next week too? 👀⚙️

09/09/2026

Is there anything better? And we have more than most! Come and see The Dancer, and The Easton and Amos in person at The London Museum of Water & Steam ✨

During the course of removing components for the Great Engine Project, the engines continued to give up their secrets......
01/09/2026

During the course of removing components for the Great Engine Project, the engines continued to give up their secrets...

A number of tooling marks were found in concealed areas showing how the original engine builders hand-chiselled components on site to get them to fit. Also found were evidence of steam pipe feeds to piston rod lantern rings (a device to stop air being drawn into the cylinder), long since disconnected, alongside plenty of cigarette packs, matches, match boxes, crisp packets and chocolate bar wrappers all stuffed down convenient holes! These were recorded and a selection removed for preservation in our archives.

As always our thanks go out to Arts Council England and the Department for Culture Media and Sport whose grant funding, through the Museum Estates Development Fund, has made these works possible.

31/08/2026

Is this the most exciting thing at our museum …? and seemed very interested in the story behind the Typhoid Death Well on Isy’s newly released Taskmaster interview.

Read the story and more about London’s water history by visiting our museum! Tickets in bio.

Address

London Museum Of Water & Steam, Green Dragon Lane
London
TW80EN

Opening Hours

Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

020 8568 4757

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