Museums
You can visit most of London's fantastic museums absolutely for free! Make sure to visit the Museum Mile and the famous Exhibition Road. Be eight again and see the dinosaurs, whales and bugs at the Natural History Museum, while appreciating the stunning architecture. Appreciate the stunning design and artefacts at the V&A. Interact with London's history at the Museum of London. Find out what makes us tick at the Science Museum and the Wellcome Collection. And there's more specialist museums than can fit on here, covering fashion, culture, interiors, art, the stars and even post.
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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
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… Read More
Serpentine Gallery is one of London’s best-loved galleries for modern and contemporary art. Its Exhibition, Architecture, Education and Public Programmes attracts up to 800,000 visitors in any one year and admission is free. In the grounds of the Gallery is a permanent work by… 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 Rural Life Centre is a country life museum, assembled by the late Mr & Mrs Henry Jackson and now run by a charitable trust. It is pleasantly distributed over ten acres of field, woodland and barns, and comprises a large number of implements and…
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Jerwood Gallery is a major initiative of the Jerwood Foundation, established to create a permanent, public home for the Jerwood Foundation's Collection of Modern British Art, alongside a changing curated programme. It will also host touring Jerwood Visual Arts exhibitions.
Jerwood Gallery has been…
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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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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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There are nearly 1,000 years of history at this great castle, situated in magnificent grounds overlooking the River Arun in West Sussex and built at the end of the 11th century by Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel.
The oldest feature is the motte, an…
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