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Benjamin Franklin House

Address: 36 Craven St., Covent Garden, London, WC2N 5NF
Phone: 020/7839-2006; 020/7925-1405 booking line
www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Soho and Covent Garden

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Fodor's Review:

Opened to the public for the first time in 2006, this architecturally significant 1730 house is the only surviving residence of American statesman, scientist, writer, and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who lived and worked there for 16 years preceding the American Revolution. The restored Georgian town house has been left unfurnished, the better to show off the original features—18th-century paneling, stoves, beams, bricks, and windows. Older children (under 16 admitted free) particularly enjoy the "Historical Experience," an interactive biography of the Founding Father that is offered on the hour from noon to 4. There's also a glass harmonica (which Franklin invented while living there) and a scholarship center with a complete collection of Franklin's papers.

Cost: £7
Open: Wed.-Sun. 10:30-5

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