South Kensington

Worth seeing in and around South Kensington

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   National Center for Biotechnology Information

   The National Center for Biotechnology Information is part of the National Library of Medicine, a branch of the National Institutes of Health. It is approved and funded by the government of the United States.

   3.1 km · database arm of the US National Library of Medicine · Wikipedia
2. 02
   United States National Library of Medicine

   The United States National Library of Medicine, operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health.

   3.2 km · medical library operated by the U.S. federal government · Wikipedia
3. 03
   National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

   The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID's mission is to conduct basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.

   2.7 km · US research institute for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Washington D.C. Temple

   The Washington D.C. Temple is the 16th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in Kensington, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., and the Capital Beltway, it became the church's first temple east of the Mississippi River since the original Nauvoo Temple, completed in 1846.

   500 m · temple of the LDS church · Wikipedia
5. 05
   National Museum of Health and Medicine

   The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum in 1862; it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2012. An element of the Defense Health Agency, the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium.

   1.6 km · museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

   The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is a health science university and professional school of the U.S. federal government. The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home and abroad as uniformed health professionals, scientists and leaders; by conducting cutting-edge, military-relevant research; by leading the Military Health System in key functional and intellectual areas; and by providing operational support to units around the world.

   1.8 km · health science university of the United States federal government · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Georgetown Preparatory School

   Georgetown Preparatory School is a Jesuit college-preparatory school in North Bethesda, Maryland for boys in ninth through twelfth grade. It has a 93-acre campus which are used for student life.

   4 km · Jesuit university-preparatory school in North Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
8. 08
   National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

   The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, a member of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. The institute also conducts and supports research and research training related to disease prevention and health promotion; addresses special biomedical and behavioral problems associated with people who have communication impairments or disorders; and supports efforts to create devices which substitute for lost and impaired sensory and communication function.

   2.8 km · member institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

   The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is one of the National Institutes of Health in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

   3.1 km · human development research institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Vaccine Research Center

    The Vaccine Research Center, is an intramural division of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of the VRC is to discover and develop both vaccines and antibody-based products that target infectious diseases.

    3.5 km · conducts research that facilitates the development of effective vaccines for human disease, as part of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · Wikipedia

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Getting to South Kensington

Airports

Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 18 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 34 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 39 km

Stations

Grosvenor–Strathmore, 3.4 km · Medical Center, 2.8 km · 16th Street–Woodside station, 3.3 km

• Richmond → South Kensington

  166 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · $15–21
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• Philadelphia → South Kensington

  194 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · $17–24
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• Norfolk → South Kensington

  251 km · quickest by road, 5h 8m · $26–36
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