Heritage & Culture
London is home to a vast selection of museums, many of which explore the heritages and cultures of not just the UK, but countries around the world. Learn about London's most famous author at the Charles Dickens Museum, or marvel over just some of the 8 million objects at the British Museum.
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Originally the property of the Archbishops of York. The Banqueting House was used to provide entertainment for Charles I, and was later the scene of his execution. After the fire that destroyed Whitehall Palace in 1698, it was used as a chapel until 1890. In 1893 Queen Victoria… Read More
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The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach.
The Institute promotes knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation; they also convey a comprehensive picture of Germany by providing information on Germany's cultural,…
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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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Cutty Sark, a true London landmark and national icon of British maritime history, re-opens to the public on 26 April 2012 following an extensive conservation project. The re-launch marks the start of an exciting new chapter in the extraordinary life of the world famous clipper: a…
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Striking Elizabethan merchant's house and gardens.
Important brick-built Tudor gentry house, completed about 1573, little altered since. Early 17th-century wall-paintings showing fishing scenes and a cityscape grace the former Great Chamber.
Evocative exposed timbers in attic, fine original spiral oak staircase in turret, soaring chimneys,…
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The Royal Observatory, home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian line, is one of the most important historic scientific sites in the world. It was founded by Charles II in 1675 and is, by international decree, the official starting point for each new day,…
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Its creator was Dennis Severs, an artist who used his visitor’s imaginations as his canvas and who lived in the house in much the same way as it’s original occupants might have done in the 18th century. This he did for…
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The Brunel Museum is the London based museum, dedicated to the Brunels’, and their great achievements, notably the Thames Tunnel, birthplace of the tube system. The present building was a roofless ruin twenty-five years ago, and six years ago the museum was open…
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Fitzroy House is an original 1791 building. It imitates the designs of Robert Adam, the famous Georgian period architect, who, along with his brother, designed Fitzroy Square. The house is one of the last remaining structures on the block that retains its original exterior.
It now…
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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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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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