Your entrance ticket includes the Cutty Sark, Royal Observatory and the Meridian Courtyard.
Cutty Sark
Built in 1869, Cutty Sark is one of the most important ships in the world and is world-renowned for her beauty. Originally devised to transport tea from China to Britain, she spent almost 100 years sailing, visiting most of the major ports across the globe. Now moored in the charming London neighbourhood of Greenwich, she sits in a beautiful glass ‘sea’ beside the River Thames.
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Flamsteed House was the original observatory building at Greenwich, designed by world-renowned architect Christopher Wren in 1675. Today it has been restored as an award-winning museum, dedicated to exploring the history of astronomy.
Many artefacts and original pieces of equipment that were used to expand our knowledge of space and time are on display throughout Flamsteed House today. Gaze through historic telescopes, visit the planetarium to touch a 4.5 billion year old meteorite, and visit the summerhouse to see the spectacular Camera Obscura, which projects an image of the Greenwich skyline.
Prime Meridian Line
Greenwich is known across the world as the birthplace of Greenwich Mean Time, where all the world’s time zones are measured from. It’s where the new millennium was officially welcomed in, and world events have been officially marked in time for over 130 years.
In the Meridian Courtyard you can also see the largest telescope in Britain and the seventh largest in the world, the Great Equatorial telescope. Its distinctive onion shape allows it to see almost any part of the night sky, and it has a huge 28-inch lens, weighing over 200lbs!