How Long Do You Need in Twist Museum?
Located just a few minutes from Oxford Circus tube station, Twist Museum’s convenient location on Oxford Street means that, once you’ve emerged from the underground, you’re practically at the Twist Museum already.
Our inconspicuous entrance is akin to a curiosity shop – the mysterious delights of which will entice you, as you step inside. And once you’re inside the Twist Museum, you’ll discover our interactive exhibition that promises to educate, entertain, and inspire you.
How long does it take to walk around Twist Museum?
It usually takes our visitors between 45 and 90 minutes to walk around our immersive rooms. Using a conservative estimate of one hour of walking this works out to an average of 2,112 steps per visit – which is equivalent to one mile.
Why is museum walking so tiring?
More traditional museums, especially for kids, can be associated with being quite tiring. Not Twist. People are often surprised to leave the museum feeling energised, educated, and just a little bit bamboozled from all of the new information they have acquired.
Overall, classic museum visits can be tiring because of the sheer number of steps involved in visiting these buildings, as you explore their many wonders.
Want to know how much walking is actually done in London’s other top museums each year? Read on.
How many people visit London’s top museums every year?
To highlight the massive scale of collective human effort of London’s museum visitors every year, we’ve put together some entertaining facts – with a Twist – so you can plan your trip to the Big Smoke.
For example, did you know that the average 2,112 steps it takes to walk around Twist Museum compares to an average step count per visit of:
- 7,250 steps for the Natural History Museum
- 8,500 steps for the British Museum
- 7,500 steps for the National Gallery
- 6,500 steps for the Science Museum
Now, if you add up the 2,112 steps of each of Twist Museum’s 250,000+ visitors a year, that’s a total distance of around 250,000 miles – the equivalent to 500 hours of continuous flying by a commercial jet travelling at an average speed of 500mph. That’s a lot of travelling!
These 250,000 miles compare to a total distance of:
- 21,633,190 miles for the Natural History Museum’s 6,301,972 annual visitors – equivalent to the length of 1.34 billion 85ft blue whales.
- 26,081,778 miles for the British Museum’s 6,479,952 annual visitors – the equivalent to 22,000 times the total length of the 1,148 ft linen bandages used on a typical Egyptian mummy.
- 11,373,989 miles for the National Gallery’s 3,203,451 annual visitors – equivalent to 16 billion 1.4mm average-length brushstrokes of a Van Gogh painting.
- 8,693,374 miles for the Science Museum’s 2,827,242 annual visitors – equivalent to flying the 500-mile round trip to the International Space Station (ISS) more than 17,386 times
The Unstoppable Collective: The True Scale of Museum Walking in London
You’ve seen the facts for each museum, but when you add up the collective effort of all the visitors to these five top London institutions, the result is truly staggering.
The 250,000 miles walked at Twist, combined with the millions of steps at the Natural History Museum, British Museum, National Gallery, and Science Museum, all total a colossal:
68,032,331 miles
That’s almost 70 million miles walked by museum visitors in one year.
This immense, collective energy is why museum walking is tiring – it’s a global journey happening right here in London.
To put 68 million miles into a perspective that challenges your mind (and your feet), here are five astonishing facts:
- The Ultimate Shoe Size Challenge (A Twist on Scale)
The enormous single Converse All Star boot required to fit all 19 million annual visitors would be 13,807 feet tall. This means the monumental shoe would reach approximately 87.5% of the way to the summit of Mont Blanc (15,774 feet)! - If one person were to walk this distance, how close to Mars would they get?
The average distance between Earth and Mars is 140 million miles. Your collective steps would get you almost halfway to Mars (48.6% of the way) – visit our museums twice a year and you will get to Mars. - If each mile walked represented one year, which epoch would we end up in?
68 Million years ago places us directly in the Paleocene Epoch—the period immediately following the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. You would witness the rise of the early mammals! - Beyond the Sun’s Orbit
Your journey of 68 million miles would take you 73% of the way from the Earth’s orbit to the Sun’s orbit (approximately 93 million miles). - The Ultimate Line-Up
The total distance is long enough to line up every single Double-Decker Bus currently operating in London over 1.2 million times bumper-to-bumper.
These astonishing figures are admittedly incredible. but then so is each and every one of us.
So, to find out more about our incredible human-ness and The Way I See Things (TWIST), make a visit to Twist Museum part of your day out in London.
