Blackett Laboratory

The Blackett Laboratory is a building of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London in England, United Kingdom. It has housed the Department of Physics at Imperial College London since the building's completion in 1961.

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Type: University building
Description: physics laboratory at Imperial College London
Address: Prince Consort Road, London

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Albert Hall and Natural History Museum.

Royal Albert Hall

Theater building

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The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. Royal Albert Hall is situated 710 feet northeast of Blackett Laboratory.

Natural History Museum

Museum

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The Natural History Museum in London, England, is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Natural History Museum is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Blackett Laboratory.

Science Museum

Museum

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The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 2,817,852 visitors in 2025. Science Museum is situated 990 feet southeast of Blackett Laboratory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Kensington and Brompton.

South Kensington

Suburb

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South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton.

Brompton

Suburb

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Brompton, sometimes called Old Brompton, is an area in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of market gardens in the county of Middlesex.

Knightsbridge

Suburb

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Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End.

Blackett Laboratory

Categories: laboratory, building, and education
Location: South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.4994° or 51° 29′ 58″ north

Longitude

-0.17918° or 0° 10′ 45″ west

Levels

Open location code

9C3XFRXC+Q8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 6143074

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

Wikidata ID

Q29025019

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In Other Languages

“Blackett Laboratory” goes by many names.

Chinese: “Blackett實驗室”

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