Apsley house
This was the London home of the first Duke of Wellington.
Open Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm
Bank of England Museum
In this museum, you can learn the history of the English
money with a lot of notes, cheques, pieces, gold bullions,
photographers and paintings. Admission free.
Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm
British Museum
Great collection of world-wide antiquities, a little
like “le Louvre” in Paris .
Admission free, charge for some exhibitions.
Open Saturday-Wednesday 10am-5.30pm; Thursday-Friday
10am-8.30pm
Great Court open Sunday-Wednesday 9am-6pm; Thursday-Saturday
9am-11pm
Design Museum
Sir Terence Conran's museum of design.
Open daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission 5.15pm);
Friday open 9pm (last admission 8.30pm)
Dickens House Museum
Charles Dickens lived in this house from 1837 to 1839.
Even if he lived there just for two years, he wrote
his main books like Oliver Twist or Nicholas Nickeby
here.
Open Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 11am-5pm (last
admission 4.30pm)
The Fan Museum
Possessed 3500 pieces from the eleventh century to nowadays.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am-5pm, Sunday noon-5pm
Fashion And Textile Museum
This museum offers us the fashion and the textile' view
of Xandra Rhode from 1950's to nowadays.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4.45pm; Sunday noon-4.45pm
(last admission 4.15)
Firepower
600 years of all artilleries and weapons in the Royal
Arsenal building.
Open Wednesday-Sunday 10.30am-5pm
Florence Nightingale Museum
Florence Nightingale was born in Italy during their
parents honeymoon travel, in 1820. In 1837, in her London
gardens, she heard God; he told her that she had to
accomplish a mission. Right this moment, she did interest
in poor people, sick people and in oppressed people
to become a nurse. Her choice wasn't well accepted by
her parents. During the Crimea War, she was the one
who managed to introduce the women nurse in the Turkish
hospitals.
Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday 10am-4.30pm
(last admission 1 hour before closing)
Geffrye Museum
Panorama of the English interiors, from 1600 to nowadays.
Admission free.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday noon-5pm;
garden April-October only
Handel House Museum
The composer Handel lived there, on 25 Brook Street
from 1723 to 1759. Here we can always feel the atmosphere
epoch.
Open Tuesday-Wednesday, Friday-Saturday 10am-6pm;
Thursday- 10am-8pm, Sunday noon-6pm (last admission
30 minutes before closing). Live music Thursday 6pm-8pm
.
Horniman Museum
Founded by the tea merchant named Frederick Horniman,
this museum presents natural and cultural collections
from the entire world and a pretty gallery dedicated
to music, with 7000 instruments which are exposed.
Admission free for main galleries.
Open daily 10.30am-5.30pm
Imperial War Museum
Commemorative galleries of the World Wars and of the
England and Commonwealth implication in these wars.
Admission free for main galleries
Open daily 10am-6pm
Jewish museum
Jewish history and religious life in Britain and abroad.
Open Monday-Thursday 10am-4pm; Sunday 10am-5pm (last
admission 30 minutes before closing)
Kew Bridge Steam Museum
The museum of the vapour is in a restored 19th century
pumping station, containing a lot of vapour machinery,
like engines, boats.
Open daily 11am-5pm
London 's Transport Museum
Trams, trains, red double-deckers and hands-on exhibits.
Open daily 10am-6pm; Friday 11am-6pm (last admission
5.15pm)
Museum in Docklands
Housed in an old warehouse the museum charts the story
and the place of the Thames in London.
Open daily 10am-6pm (last admission 5.30pm; open
until 8pm Wednesday)
Museum of childhood
One of the world's largest and oldest collections of
toys and artefact from the childhood universe.
Admission free.
Open Saturday-Thursday 10am-5.50pm
Museum of Fulham Palace
The bishop's palace from 704 to 1973 surrounded with
a fine garden and with a small museum.
Admission free
Open Thursday- Sunday 1pm-4pm
Museum of Garden History
Opposite the Westminster Palace , on the other Tames
shore, there is a beautiful renovated church a rich
artefacts collection and of the 17th century and of
course a beautiful garden.
Open daily 10.30am-5pm
Museum of London
This museum presents London since the Roman Empire .
Open Monday-Saturday 10am-5.50pm; Sunday noon-5.50pm
(last admission 5.30pm)
Museum of Rugby
This museum presents the hidden face of the Londoner's
rugby stadium, with windows containing trophies, and
objects of the English rugby history.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 11am-5pm
(last admission 4.30pm)
National Army Museum
The museum presents the soldiers' life since the Tudors'
epoch to nowadays.
Admission free.
Open daily 10am-5.30pm
National Maritime Museum
This museum has a collection of international notoriety.
Here there are a lot of events for children and adults.
At the same place there is the Queen House. Admission
free, charges for some events.
Open daily 10am-5pm (last admission 4.30pm)
Natural History Museum
This museum contains a vast collection of mineral, plant
and stuffed animals. A discovery area is here for children.
Admission to main galleries free, charge for some exhibitions.
Open daily 10am-6pm Museum open Monday-Saturday
10am-5.50pm; Sunday 11am-5.50pm
Royal Air Force Museum
This Britain 's National Aviation Museum houses over
200 aircraft, engines, vehicles, weapons, uniforms and
medals, photos. Admission free.
Open daily 10am-6pm (last admission 5.30pm)
Science Museum
This museum presents the technological, medical and
scientific progress since the 18th century.
Exposition free to main galleries.
Open daily 10am-6pm
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson lived on 221B Baker
Street between 1881 and 1904, according to the stories
written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The house had been
lived up to 1936 and the famous first floor with the
view on Baker Street had been conserved faithfully up
to today as it was during the Victorian epoch.
Open daily 9.30am-6pm
Theatre Museum
400 years of theatre with artefacts, portraits and models
from the theatre world.
Admission free
Open Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm (last admission 5.30pm)
Victoria & Albert Museum
This is a vast art museum from Great Britain and from
the world, with a gallery interested in Silver artefacts
and another interested in English from 1500 to 1900
artefacts. There is a new gallery interested in 19th
century painters like Constable, Turner, Gainsborough,
Blake, Landseer and Millais.
Admission free, charge for some exhibitions.
Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday-Sunday 10am-5.45pm;
Wednesday 10am-10pm
Wallace Collection
In the splendid Hertford family's house, there are beautiful
porcelain collections, furniture collection, paintings
and engravings collection.
Open Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday noon-5pm
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
There are some guided tours of the Centre which sheltered
all the Wimbledon courts, where are played the best
tennis worldwide matches since 125 years. It is also
possible to see the BBC internal administration and
the tennis trophies and historic objects gallery.
Open daily 10.30am-5pm |