Family Friendly
For all your family friendly museums, look no further - here you can find the best London museums for everyone, from the National Gallery, with the huge variety of workshops and events for families, to the Museum of London where there is always something to explore and learn about the capital.
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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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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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At the London Canal Museum you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats. Peer down into the 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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London's Kew Bridge Steam Museum was built in the 19th century to supply London with water, the museum is recognised as the most important historic site of the water supply industry in Britain.
Marvel at the world's largest collection of steam pumping engines,…
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Florence Nightingale became a living legend as the 'Lady with the Lamp'. She led the nurses caring for thousands of soldiers during the Crimean War and helped save the British army from medical disaster.
This was just one of Florence's many achievements. She was…
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The Museum features special exhibitions about Dickens's life and works as well as occasional exhibitions by contemporary artists. In the past, themes such as 'Great Victorian Beards', Dickens's Child's History of England and Katey - 'Dickens's Artistic daughter' have enriched the…
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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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The Geffrye Museum depicts the quintessential style of English middle-class living rooms. Its collections of furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts are displayed in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day.
The displays lead the visitor on a walk through time, from…
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Hackney Museum is about local history with a difference. It explores why people from all over the world have been settling in this part of London for hundreds of years.
Hackney Museum, which opened in 2002, looks at the stories of some of the amazing people…
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Welcoming over 400,000 visitors through its doors every year, the V&A Museum of Childhood in London's Bethnal Green houses the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of childhood-related objects and artefacts, spanning the 1600s to the present day.
The collection features toys -…
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