Art & Design
London's museums cater for all tastes and here you can find some of the best for art and design. Why not wonder down to the Fashion and Textile Museum for one of their great exhibitions, or to the wonderful Museum of Brands to discover the history of branding in advertising.
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Be proud of our country - go to ‘British Design - 1948 - 2012’ at the V&A
This exhibition is an incredible showcase for British design and it reminded me how trailblazing Britain is and how much of culture we have influenced while remaining completely original and risk-taking. Read More
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The Mosaic Rooms are an arts space showcasing contemporary culture from and connected to the Arab World. We bring the most exciting, progressive and innovative voices in art, literature and film from that region to UK audiences.
Situated in a beautifully refurbished Victorian townhouse in…
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Pollock’s Toy Museum occupies two houses joined together in the heart of Fitzrovia, one 18th century, one 19th; the rooms are small and connected by narrow winding staircases. The whole place exudes atmosphere and evocations of those special times of childhood. Every corner…
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Built to elaborate specifications by William Waldorf Astor, later first Viscount Astor, in 1895 as his residence and estate office on reclaimed land following completion of the Victoria Embankment in 1870, Two Temple Place has been acquired and preserved by the Bulldog Trust and offers a unique…
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Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the world's most important collections of European old master paintings of the 1600s and 1700s.
The collection is also one of the oldest in Great Britain, substantially put together in the years 1790 to 1795. The paintings are housed in…
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Walpole called his castle a ‘plaything house’ and in choosing the gothic style for Strawberry Hill he deliberately avoided the fashionable classical idioms of his time: columns, pediments, order and symmetry.
In collaboration with a group of amateur architect friends he based his…
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The Fashion and Textile Museum is a cutting edge centre for contemporary fashion, textiles and jewellery in London. Founded by iconic British designer Zandra Rhodes, the centre showcases a programme of changing exhibitions exploring elements of fashion, textile and jewellery as well as the Academy…
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The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising presents the collection of consumer historian, Robert Opie, who saw the need to record the history of the products around us.
Starting at the age of sixteen with a packet of Munchies, Robert built up the collection that…
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Chiswick House and Gardens Trust
The Chiswick House and Gardens Trust was set up in April 2005 to oversee the restoration, management and protection of this important historic site in south west London. Chiswick House is the first and one of the finest examples of neo-Palladian design in England. Inspired…
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On 23rd February 2006 London's first cartoon museum opened to the public. Situated at 35 Little Russell Street, a stone's throw from The British Museum, The Cartoon Museum exhibits the very finest examples of British cartoons, caricature, and comic art from the 18th century to…
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Benjamin Franklin House at 36 Craven Street in the heart of London is a heritage 'gem.' The world's only remaining home of Benjamin Franklin was opened to the public for the first time on 17 January 2006, Ben Franklin's 300th birthday, as a dynamic museum and…
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