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London Museums

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum is aptly situated in leafy, residential Wimbledon in south-west London. As perhaps the most famous and hallowed event in the tennis world calendar, the yearly ...more »

  • Location: Wimbledon
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 8946 6131

The V&A Museum of Childhood

The V&A Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green, E2, contains one of the world’s largest and oldest collections of toys and childhood artifacts in the world. ...more »

  • Location: Whitechapel
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 8983 5200

Design Museum

Situated in a former 1930s banana warehouse in Shad Thames, south- east London, the Design Museum is one of the world’s leading museums designed to exhibit furniture, graphics, architecture and ...more »

  • Location: Shad Thames
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: +44 (0)207 940 8790

The Science Museum

The Science Museum often goes hand-in-hand with its nearby neighbour, the Natural History Museum. They're literally around the corner from each other and, although they display vastly differing object ...more »

  • Location: Kensington
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: +44 (0)870 870 4868

The British Museum

The British Museum, founded in 1753, is the world’s oldest museum and was initially formed to promote a better public understanding of the arts, natural history and science. It houses one of the ...more »

  • Location: Bloomsbury
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7323 8000

Bank of England Museum

Right in the buzz of the City, housed in the Bank of England itself, is the Bank of England Museum. The museum shows the history of the Bank from 1694, when it was founded by the Royal Charter to rai ...more »

  • Location: Bank
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7601 5545

Hunterian Museum

Housed at the Royal College of Surgeons in the Holborn area of London, the Hunterian Museum is inspired by the life, work and specimen collections of the surgeon John Hunter during the eighteenth ...more »

  • Location: Holborn
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: 020 7869 6560

The Natural History Museum

For parents, The Natural History Museum is a brilliant place to bring inquisitive children. The entire museum has a gentle, quiet atmosphere, allowing for every inch of information to be absorbe ...more »

  • Location: Kensington
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5000

Victoria and Albert Museum

In 1852, the V&A museum, as it's known, was founded and named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. It went on to become the world’s largest museum of the decorative arts, containing 145 galleries w ...more »

  • Location: Kensington
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2000

Museum of London

Situated within the vibrant Barbican arts center, the Museum of London is definitely a worthwhile place to visit if you want to go to one of the City’s most interesting and engaging museums, based o ...more »

  • Location: Barbican
  • Type: Museums
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7001 9844

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Our Local Experts say:

Just like the art scene in London, the museums are famous. They've attracted some of the best and most-loved exhibitions around. Visit one of the great London Museums and see what everyone is talking about.

From the trenches of the two World Wars to ascending through the centre of the earth, whichever museum you visit in London, you're in for a wildly different experience every time. South Kensington, over in west London is the culture hot-spot and where you'll find the coolest museums. Want to interact with dinosaurs, get seriously hands-on with science, learn about London's rampaging history, or learn about the globally-famousannual tennis tournament, Wimbledon? You can do all these in London, and at eye-openingly low prices, too. Definitely worth the consideration when you pay us a visit.

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