sofarsogood

Credit to Diamond Geezer for this interesting list http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/

Admission prices for various London attractions - London can be expensive but is there anywhere in the world where so much can be seen for so little or no cost?

£30+
£39.00 Warner Bros Studio Tour
£35.00 Madame Tussauds (walk-up)
£32.00 Madame Tussauds (pre-book, before 3pm)
£30.95 The View From The Shard (walk-up)
£30.00 London Dungeon (walk-up)

£25-£29.99
£29.00 Madame Tussauds (pre-book, after 3pm)
£28.50 London Dungeon (pre-book, weekend afternoon)
£27.00 Shrek's Adventure!
£26.95 London Bridge Experience & Tombs
£25.95 The View From The Shard (pre-book)
£25.50 Houses of Parliament (guided tour)

£20-£24.99
£24.95 London Eye (walk-up)
£24.50 London Aquarium
£24.00 London Dungeon (pre-book, weekday afternoon)
£24.00 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum and Tour
£23.00 Buckingham Palace (summer only)
£23.00 Big Bus Sightseeing Tour
£22.50 Tower of London
£22.45 London Eye (pre-book)
£22.00 Chelsea Stadium Tour & Museum
£21.50 London Zoo
£21.00 London Dungeon (pre-book, morning)
£20.00 Westminster Abbey
£20.00 Star Wars Identities (at The O2)
£20.00 Wembley Stadium Tour
£20.00 Arsenal Stadium Tour & Museum
£20.00 Lord's Cricket Ground tour
£20.00 World Rugby Museum (closes next month)

£15-£19.99
£19.00 London Stadium Tour (walk-up)
£18.50 Houses of Parliament (audio tour)
£18.00 St Paul's Cathedral
£17.70 David Hockney (at Tate Britain)
£17.25 Churchill War Rooms
£17.00 London Stadium Tour (pre-book)
£17.00 London Transport Museum
£16.50 Hampton Court Palace
£16.00 Shakespeare's Globe (exhibition and tour)
£15.00 Kensington Palace
£15.00 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

£10-£14.99
£14.50 London Film Museum
£13.00 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
£12.15 Cutty Sark
£12.00 Leighton House Museum
£10.30 The Queen's Gallery
£10.00 Handel & Hendrix in London

£5-£9.99
£9.90 Fashion and Textile Museum
£9.50 The Royal Observatory
£9.30 The Royal Mews
£9.00 Tower Bridge Exhibition
£8.00 Banqueting House
£8.00 Lord's Cricket Ground Museum
£7.50 Clink Prison Museum
£7.00 18 Stafford Terrace
£7.00 Cartoon Museum
£7.00 Courtauld Gallery
£7.00 Household Cavalry Museum
£6.00 Dr Johnson's House
£6.00 Guards Museum

1p-£4.99
£4.00 The Monument

free
Changing The Guard, Bank of England Museum, British Museum, Geffrye Museum, Horniman Museum, Imperial War Museum, Museum of London, Museum of London Docklands, National Maritime Museum, Natural History Museum, Queen's House, Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Wallace Collection, Wellcome Collection, Guildhall Gallery, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern

PalenQ

London can be expensive but is there anywhere in the world where so much can be seen for so little or no cost?>

Washington DC - nearly every museum and sight are free!

PalenQ

https://washington.org/visit-dc/100-...-do-fall-in-dc

ElendilPickle

Thanks for that great list, sofarsogood.

Lee Ann

Bedar

Thanks for the list. I'd pay for the Tower and Westminster Abbey but then only visit places with free admission.

janisj

The Benjamin Franklin house and Dennis Severs house are not listed . . . I'd pay for both.

hetismij2

There is no such thing as a free lunch, or a free museum. You should thank the British taxpayer.

flanneruk

"You should thank the British taxpayer."

For those things we subsidise directly

But much of London's frrebies aren't tax-subsidised. Including:

- Britain's 100,000+ mile network of free access footpaths, accessible from hundreds of places in London, including Paddington Station, Camden Lock and the entire length of the Thames, the Greenway, the Regent's Canal and the Grand Union Canal.
- All of London's historic churches (not just Anglican) apart from St Paul's and Westminster Abbey, including sixty Christopher Wren originals
- About 10,000 acres of free parkland and open squares

For which you should thank:
- the long-suffering owners of thousands of square miles of English land, who put up with universal access without whining. And the spirit of the English Common Law system, which devised our footpath laws, as well 19th and 20th century campaigners for enforcing the Common Law.
- the generosity of the non-Anglican churches, which open all their monuments to the public and of Anglican churchgoers, who pay to keep most of their churches open to all
- the wisdom of the 19th century Crown Lands Act legislators, who devised open access to the Royal Park system and the foresight of the aldermen of Birkenhead, whose pioneering vision devising Birkenhead Park in 1841 shamed Parliament into extending the free-access programme. And even shamed the snobs of New York into making Central Park free.

As well as the generosity of a thousand years of benefactors to the City of London, whose collective bounty pays for the upkeep of a huge proportion of London's parkland that's not provided by the Royal Parks system.

Any more freebies we want to remind ourselves of - or heroes who've made sure they stay free?

annhig

To the list of free things to see I add the Temple, including Temple Church, the Royal Courts of Justice, the Old Bailey [aka the Central Criminal court] Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn, and for the price of lunch you can eat in Middle Temple Hall which saw the first performance of Twelfth Night:

http://www.middletemple.org.uk/venue-hire/lunch-in-hall