Visitors to the Science Museum were evacuated following a fire scare today (February 10).
It was closed for around an hour after a fire alarm was activated. The museum, in Exhibition Road, South Kensington , posted a tweet shortly before 11.30am that it was evacuating the building as a precaution.
Firefighters later said they were attending after a fire alarm went off, but could not find an signs of a fire.
Finally, at around 12.10pm the museum tweeted again that the fire brigade had given it the all-clear, and that it would be reopening shortly.