Museum Mile
A walk along Museum Mile provides a fascinating insight into London, past and present. From King's Cross to the River Thames, discover some of the city's most extraordinary museums and galleries and their equally diverse collections.
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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 Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons is part of London's Museum Mile, which provides a facsination insight into London, past and present. Revealing 400 years of medical history, from one of the oldest anatomical collections in the world to the latest advances…
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The Foundling Museum was established as an independent organisation in 1998 by the childcare charity the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, which is today known as Coram. Coram is the successor organisation of the original Foundling Hospital. The Museum has two principal collections: the Foundling Collection…
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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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The architect Sir John Soane’s house, museum and library at No. 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields has been a public museum since the early 19th century. Soane demolished and rebuilt three houses in succession on the north side of Lincoln’s Inn…
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Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Freemasons’ Hall is the headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England and the principal meeting place for Masonic Lodges in London.
Built between 1927–1932 as a memorial to the Freemasons who died in the First World War, it is one of the finest…
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Wellcome Collection is a free visitor destination for the incurably curious. Located at 183 Euston Road, London, it explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. The venue offers visitors contemporary and historic exhibitions and collections, lively public events, the…
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The Courtauld Gallery is one of the finest small museums in the world. Its collection stretches from the early Renaissance into the 20th century and is particularly renowned for the unrivalled collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. The Gallery also holds an outstanding collection of…
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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s greatest libraries. The collections include more than 150 million items, in over 400 languages, to which three million new items are added every year. The Library houses books, magazines,…
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London Transport Museum's collections cover a wide spectrum of materials and media, including vehicles, rolling stock, posters and original artworks, signs, uniforms, photographs, ephemera, maps and engineering drawings. Together, they make up the most comprehensive record of urban mass transit in the world.
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The British Museum was founded in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all and visitor numbers have grown from around 5,000 a year in the eighteenth century to nearly 6 million today. The original collection of the…
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