Crystal Palace Museum
A small volunteer-run museum in the park's surviving Victorian engineering-school building, telling the story of the giant glass Crystal Palace that stood here until it burned down in 1936.
- Museum
- Price: Free
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Did you know
The museum is in a surviving building built around 1880 by the Crystal Palace Company as a lecture room for its School of Practical Engineering.
Local tip
Free to enter but open only a couple of days a week: its listing said Friday and Sunday 10am-4pm (last checked May 2026), so confirm before you go.
Finding it
- Address
- Anerley Hill, Crystal Palace, London SE19 2BA
- Nearest station
- Crystal Palace (National Rail), 255 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Crystal Palace ParkVictorian pleasure grounds in south-east London with Italian terraces flanked by sphinxes, a free hedge maze, a boating lake and life-size Victorian dinosaur sculptures.
- Crystal Palace DinosaursThe world's first dinosaur sculptures, unveiled in 1854 and now Grade I listed, standing on islands by the lake in Crystal Palace Park.
- West Norwood CemeteryOne of London's 'Magnificent Seven' Victorian cemeteries, with a Greek Orthodox necropolis and dozens of listed monuments among the hillside mausolea.
- Horniman Museum and GardensA free South London museum of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments set within 16 acres of gardens, opened in 1901 as a gift to the public by tea trader Frederick John Horniman.