Museums/Galleries in London

Museums/Galleries in London

Sights Overview
Name Category Location
 
Apsley House (Wellington Museum)
The mansion built by Robert Adam and presented to the Duke of... 		Museums / Galleries St. James's and Mayfair
 
Bankside Gallery
Two artistic societies—the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
Benjamin Franklin House
This architecturally significant 1730 house is the only surviving... 		Museums / Galleries, Historic Districts / Sites Soho and Covent Garden
 
British Museum
With a facade like a great temple, this celebrated treasure house... 		Museums / Galleries Bloomsbury and Legal London
 
Burgh House
One of Hampstead's oldest buildings, Burgh House was built in... 		Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions, Architectural Sites Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Cabinet War Rooms & Churchill Museum
It was from this small warren of underground rooms—beneath... 		Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Charles Dickens Museum
This is the only one of the many London houses Charles Dickens... 		Museums / Galleries Bloomsbury and Legal London
 
The Clink Prison Museum
The reason why the term clink became slang for jail, this was... 		Museums / Galleries, Architectural Sites South Bank
 
Courtauld Institute Gallery
One of London's most beloved art collections, the Courtauld is... 		Museums / Galleries Soho and Covent Garden
 
Design Museum
This was the first museum in the U.K. to place everyday contemporary... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
Discover Greenwich
Intended as a kind of anchor point for Greenwich's big three... 		Museums / Galleries Greenwich
 
Dr. Johnson's House
This is where Samuel Johnson lived between 1748 and 1759. Built... 		Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions The City
 
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Famed for its regal Old Master painting collection, the Dulwich... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
England & Co.
This small gallery specialises in new and up-and-coming contemporary... 		Museums / Galleries Notting Hill and Bayswater
 
Estorick Collection
West of Hoxton, towards the eastern end of Islington, is this... 		Museums / Galleries East End
 
Fan Museum
An arcane but frequently alluring marriage between art and function... 		Museums / Galleries Greenwich
 
Fashion and Textile Museum
The bright yellow and pink museum (it's hard to miss) designed... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
Florence Nightingale Museum
Compact, highly visual, and engaging, this museum is dedicated... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
Freud Museum
The father of psychoanalysis lived here for a year, between his... 		Museums / Galleries Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
The Garden Museum
This rather unassuming museum was created in the mid-1970s after... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
Geffrye Museum
Here's where you can explore the life of London' middle class... 		Museums / Galleries East End
 
Handel House Museum
The former home of the composer, where he lived for more than... 		Museums / Galleries St. James's and Mayfair
 
Household Cavalry Museum
Horse lovers can see working horses belonging to the British... 		Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Imperial War Museum London
Despite its name this museum of 20th- and 21st-century warfare... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
Jewish Museum
The focus is on the history of the Jewish people in Britain from... 		Museums / Galleries Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Keats House
It was in February 1820 that John Keats (1795-1821) coughed blood... 		Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Leighton House Museum
Leading Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton lived and worked... 		Museums / Galleries Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge
 
London Canal Museum
Near the St. Pancras International train station, in this former... 		Museums / Galleries Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
London Dungeon
Here's the goriest, grisliest, most gruesome attraction in town... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
London Transport Museum
Housed in the old flower market at the southeast corner of Covent... 		Museums / Galleries Soho and Covent Garden
 
Lord's Cricket Ground & Museum
If you can't manage to lay your hands on tickets for a cricket... 		Museums / Galleries, Sports Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Madame Tussauds
One of London's busiest tourist attractions, this is nothing... 		Museums / Galleries Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
This extraordinary little museum does exactly what it says on... 		Museums / Galleries Notting Hill and Bayswater
 
Museum of London
If there's one place to absorb the history of London, from 450,000... 		Museums / Galleries The City
 
National Gallery
Standing proudly on the north side of Trafalgar Square is one... 		Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
National Maritime Museum
From the time of Henry VIII until the 1940s Britain was the world's... 		Museums / Galleries Greenwich
 
National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 with a single... 		Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Natural History Museum
The ornate terracotta facade of this enormous Victorian museum... 		Museums / Galleries Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge
 
Old Operating Theatre Museum
This rare example of a 19th-Century operating theater, the oldest... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
The Queen's Gallery
The former chapel at the south side of Buckingham Palace is now... 		Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! contains five floors of curiosities:... 		Museums / Galleries St. James's and Mayfair
 
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House was originally built in 1664, with later Palladian... 		Museums / Galleries St. James's and Mayfair
 
Royal Mews
Fairy-tale gold-and-glass coaches and sleek Rolls-Royce state... 		Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Saatchi Gallery
Charles Saatchi, who made his fortune building an advertising... 		Museums / Galleries Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge
 
Science Museum
This, one of the three great South Kensington museums, stands... 		Museums / Galleries Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge
 
Serpentine Gallery
Overlooking the large stream that winds its way through Hyde... 		Museums / Galleries Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge
 
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Outside Baker Street station, by the Marylebone Road exit, is... 		Museums / Galleries Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Sir John Soane's Museum
Sir John (1753-1837), architect of the Bank of England, bequeathed... 		Museums / Galleries Bloomsbury and Legal London
 
Somerset House
In recent years this huge complex—the work of Sir William... 		Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions Soho and Covent Garden
 
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's is simply breathtaking. The structure is Sir Christopher... 		Museums / Galleries The City
 
Tate Britain
The stately neoclassical institution may not be as ambitious... 		Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Tate Modern
This spectacular renovation of a mid-20th-century power station... 		Museums / Galleries South Bank
 
Tower Bridge
Despite its medieval, fairy-tale appearance, this is a Victorian... 		Museums / Galleries, Bridges / Tunnels The City
 
Tower of London
Nowhere else does London's history come to life so vividly as... 		Museums / Galleries, Castles / Palaces The City
 
V&A Museum of Childhood
The East End outpost of the Victoria & Albert Museum—in... 		Museums / Galleries East End
 
Victoria & Albert Museum
Always referred to as the V&A, this huge museum is devoted... 		Museums / Galleries Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge
 
Wallace Collection
This exquisite labyrinth of an art gallery is housed in Hertford... 		Museums / Galleries Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
White Cube
The original White Cube once had cramped quarters in genteel... 		Museums / Galleries East End
 
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Founded in 1901, this gallery has expanded into fabulous new... 		Museums / Galleries East End
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