Plan Your Visit

How to get here: Directions From the south of Kew Bridge, go over the bridge, then immediately turn left towards Brentford. The Museum is about 100 yards along on the right hand side, on the corner of Green Dragon Lane…

Our Collections

The heart of the museum is its collection of magnificent steam pumping engines. These comprise the Cornish engines, which are in their original engine houses, and the rotative engines, which have been collected by the museum trust from pumping stations across the country.
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Saturday 19th Oct

Pumping Engines in Steam
Saturday 19th Oct

Spooky Cats at the London Museum of Water & Steam
Sunday 20th Oct

Locomotives in operation
Sunday 20th Oct

Spooky Cats at the London Museum of Water & Steam
Monday 21st Oct

Locomotives in operation
Monday 21st Oct

Spooky Cats at the London Museum of Water & Steam
Tuesday 22nd Oct

Locomotives in operation
Tuesday 22nd Oct

Spooky Cats at the London Museum of Water & Steam
Wednesday 23rd Oct

Pumping Engines in Steam
Wednesday 23rd Oct

Spooky Cats at the London Museum of Water & Steam
Thursday 24th Oct

Locomotives in operation
Thursday 24th Oct

Spooky Cats at the London Museum of Water & Steam
Friday 25th Oct

Locomotives in operation
Friday 25th Oct

Spooky Cats at the London Museum of Water & Steam
Saturday 26th Oct

Locomotives in operation
Saturday 26th Oct

Spooky Cats at the London Museum of Water & Steam
Sunday 27th Oct

Spooky Cats at the London Museum of Water & Steam
Sunday 27th Oct

Locomotives in operation
Saturday 2nd Nov

Locomotives in operation
Sunday 3rd Nov

Locomotives in operation
Saturday 9th Nov

Pumping Engines in Steam
Sunday 10th Nov

Pumping Engines in Steam
Saturday 16th Nov

Pumping Engines in Steam
Sunday 17th Nov

Locomotives in operation
Saturday 23rd Nov

Locomotives in operation
Sunday 24th Nov

Locomotives in operation
Saturday 30th Nov

Locomotives in operation
Sunday 1st Dec

Locomotives in operation
Wednesday 4th Dec

Museum Closed for Private Event
Saturday 7th Dec

Pumping Engines in Steam
Sunday 8th Dec

Locomotives in operation
Saturday 14th Dec

Pumping Engines in Steam
Sunday 15th Dec

Locomotives in operation
Saturday 21st Dec

Pumping Engines in Steam
Sunday 22nd Dec

Locomotives in operation

Latest News

One Year On: a message from the Director

  Tuesday 15th October sees my one year anniversary as Director of the London Museum of Water & Steam. When I joined the Museum I knew I was in for an adventure, and I was not wrong. The year seems…

A look in our collections:
The Pipe Yard foreman

Written by Oliver Pearcey, Museum Trustee    Among the research collections taken into the Museum archives is that of Geoff Saul, which I have been cataloguing in more detail following initial work by John Porter. Geoff clearly had a number…

1838 Maudslay Sons and Field – Engine Shutdown

1838 Maudslay Engine – Shutdown and Conservation.   Introduction The study of industrial archaeology and the later preservation movement has its beginnings in the early 20th century with the formation of The Sheffield Trades Societies of 1918, set up specifically…

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Our address:

Green Dragon Lane
Brentford
London TW8 0EN
Tel: 020 8568 4757

Email: museum@waterandsteam.org.uk

Opening Hours

The Museum is open daily on bank holidays, and London Borough of Hounslow school holidays.

Monday
Closed*
Tuesday
Closed*
Wednesday
10am - 4pm
Thursday
10am - 4pm
Friday
10am - 4pm
Saturday
10am - 4pm
Sunday
10am - 4pm

* Except for pre-booked school and group parties