Down House
Situated in the London Borough of Bromley, Down House is the house where the well-known english naturalist and athropologist Charles Darwin used to live and work since 1842.
It is said that it was here where he developed many of his theories and wrote his famous but also at his time anticipated book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection".
After Charles Darwin had passed away in 1882 the house eventually was used as a boarding school until 1922. In 1929 it was acquired by the surgeon Sir George Buckstone Browne and opened for the first time as a museum.
In 1996 the house was bought by the English Heritage Trust and widely restored with the help of the Natural History Museum and opened for the public in 1998.
The house can be visited from mid Februarty until end of October. Open days are usually Wedneday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Opening days may be extended during summer time. The museum usually opens at 11 a.m. It is closed from 1 November until 12 February.
