24 Hour Museum Official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
URL: http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk
Bank of England Museum Sometimes known as the "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" it stands, literally and figuratively, at the financial centre of the City. The Museum traces the history of the Bank from its foundation in 1694, to its role today as the nation's central bank.
Location: Bank - Tube
Postcode: EC2R 8AH MAP Telephone: 020 7601 4878
URL: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/
Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood UK's national collection of toys and games, children's costume, nursery furniture and baby equipment, all in an outstanding red-brick, grade II listed building
Location: Bethnal Green - Tube
Postcode: E2 9PA MAP Telephone: 020 8983 5200
URL: http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk
British Museum One of the greatest collections of antiquities in the world
Location: Tottenham Court Road - Russell Square - Holborn - Tubes
Postcode: WC1B 3DG MAP Telephone: 020 7323 8299
URL: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Cartoon Museum Exhibits the very finest examples of British cartoons, caricature, and comic art from the 18th century to the present day.
Postcode: WC1A 2HH. MAP Telephone: 020 7580 8155
URL: http://www.cartooncentre.com
Curwen & New Academy Gallery Exhibitions throughout the year.
Location: Fitzrovia
Postcode: W1T 2JR MAP Telephone: 020 7323 4700
URL: http://www.curwengallery.com
Design Museum One of London's most inspiring attractions. Concerned as much with the future as the past, a programme of highly acclaimed exhibitions capture the excitement of design evolution, ingenuity and inspiration through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Location: South Bank - Tower Bridge
Postcode: SE1 2YD MAP Telephone: 020 7940 8790
URL: http://www.designmuseum.org/
Dickens House Museum A museum dedicated to the life and works of Charles Dickens.
Postcode: WC1N 2LF MAP Telephone: 020 7405 2127
URL: http://www.dickensmuseum.com/
Discover New hands-on centre
designed to inspire 0-8 year
olds to create their own
stories. Big hits with small
children are the dressing
up area and an interactive
light and sound installation. Take time to also enjoy the creative Story Garden .
Location: Stratford
Postcode: E15 4BG MAP Telephone: 020 8536 5555
URL: http://www.discover.org.uk/
Fan Museum Devoted entirely to every aspect of fans and fan making. Home to a collection of more than 3,000 predominantly antique fans from around the world dating from the 11th century to the present day
Location: Greenwich
Postcode: SE10 8ER MAP Telephone: 020 8305 1441
URL: http://www.fan-museum.org/
Fashion and Textile Museum The museum, will recognises Britain's international success in the fashion industry and showcases works of outstanding British and international designers.
Location: Bermondsey
Postcode: SE1 3XF MAP Telephone: 020 7403 0222
URL: http://www.ftmlondon.org/
Florence Nightingale Museum Florence Nightingale founded the first school of nursing at St Thomas Hospital in 1860, the Hospital and School have preserved and added to a unique collection of Florence Nightingale's personal mementoes, clothing, furniture, books, letters and portraits
Location: Westminster - Waterloo - Tube and Rail
Postcode: SE1 7EW MAP Telephone: 020 7620 0374
URL: http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/
Freud Museum Centrepiece of the museum is Freud's library and study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime
Location: Finchley Road - Tube
Postcode: NW3 5SX MAP Telephone: 020 7435 2002
URL: http://www.freud.org.uk/
Geffrye Museum Specialist collection of English furniture and decorative arts in a chronological series of period rooms. The rooms reflect the changing social habits and values which have influenced the style of interiors over the past 400 years
Location: Hoxton
Postcode: E2 8EA MAP Telephone: 020 7739 9893
URL: http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/
Guards Museum Fine collection of military ephemera spanning 350 years of Regimental history
Location: St James Park - Tube
Postcode: SW1E 6HQ MAP Telephone: 020 7414 3428
URL: http://www.army.mod.uk/museums/index.htm
Handel House Museum 25 Brook Street is the house in which Messiah, Israel in Egypt, the Coronation Anthems and most of the organ concertos were written, and where Handel died in 1759
Location: Bond Street - Tube
Postcode: W1K 4HB MAP Telephone: 020 7495 1685
URL: http://www.handelhouse.org/
Horniman Museum & Gardens Uses its worldwide collections and the Gardens to encourage a wider appreciation of the World, its peoples and their cultures, and its environments
Location: Forest Hill
Postcode: SE23 3PQ MAP Telephone: 020 8699 1872
URL: http://www.horniman.ac.uk/
Imperial War Museum Unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present day. It seeks to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and 'war-time experience'
Location: Lambeth North - Tube
Postcode: SE1 6HZ MAP Telephone: 020 7416 5000
URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/
Jewish Museum History and religious life of the Jewish community in Britain and beyond
Location: Camden - Finchley
URL: http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/
Keats House Collection consists of books, manuscripts, letters, prints, paintings and artefacts relating to the life of the poet John Keats (1795-1821), his circle and the English Romantic movement
Location: Hampstead Heath - Tube
Postcode: NW3 2RR MAP Telephone: 020 7435 2062
URL: http://www.keatshouse.org.uk/
Kew Bridge Steam Museum The museum is housed in a magnificent 19th Century Pumping Station and centres around the station's five world famous Cornish Beam Engines, two of which can be seen, in steam, every weekend
Location: Brentford
Postcode: TW8 0EN MAP Telephone: 020 8568 4757
URL: http://www.kbsm.org/
London Canal Museum 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
Location: Kings Cross - Tube and Rail
Postcode: N1 9RT MAP Telephone: 020 7713 0836
URL: http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/
London's Transport Museum Uncover the story of two hundred years of London and its public transport, the oldest in the world. Explore fascinating and colourful displays, meet characters from the past, drive a bus or Tube simulator
Location: Covent Garden - Tube
Postcode: WC2E 7BB MAP Telephone: 020 7379 6344
URL: http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/
Museum in Docklands The museum celebrates the story of London's river, port and people, from the arrival of the Romans to the rise of Canary Wharf.
Location: London
Postcode: E14 4AL MAP Telephone: 0870 444 3856
URL: http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/
Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture MoDA houses what is widely regarded as one of the world's most comprehensive collections of nineteenth and twentieth century decorative arts for the home
Location: Cockfosters - Tube
Postcode: EN4 8HT MAP Telephone: O20 8411 5244
URL: http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk/
Museum of Garden History The Museum is concerned with Garden History, historic garden tools, the history of Gardening, Garden Design, and gardeners
Location: Lambeth North - Tube
Postcode: SE1 7LB MAP Telephone: 020 7401 8865
URL: http://www.museumgardenhistory.org/
Museum of London The largest, most comprehensive city museum in the world, telling the fascinating story of London from prehistoric times to the present day.
Location: Barbican - St Paul's - Moorgate - Bank - Tubes
Postcode: EC2Y 5HN MAP Telephone: 020 7600 3699
URL: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
Museum of Rugby and Twickenham Stadium Tours From the moment you pass through the authentic Twickenham turnstile you'll be immersed in a world of rugby union history
Location: Twickenham - Rail
Postcode: TW1 1DZ MAP Telephone: 020 8892 8877
URL: http://www.rfu.com/
Museum of the Order of St John The St John's Gate site and the museum collections, offer the rare opportunity of exploring medieval, Tudor, Victorian and modern history in one location.
Location: Clerkenwell
Postcode: EC1M 4DA MAP Telephone: 020 7253 6644
URL: http://www.sja.org.uk/history/
Museums ot the The Royal College of Surgeons One of the greatest museums of comparative anatomy, pathology, osteology in the world. There are four museums in the College. The Hunterian and Odontological Museums contain collections of historical and scientific interest and are open to the public.
Location: Holburn -Tube
Telephone: 020 7869 6560
URL: http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/
National Army Museum The British Army's own museum. It is the only museum to tell the story of the Army as a whole from Agincourt in the Fifteenth Century to peace-keeping in the Twenty-first Century
Location: Sloane Square - Tube
Postcode: SW3 4HT MAP Telephone: 020 7730 0717
URL: http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/
National Maritime Museum The largest maritime museum in the world covering every aspect of ships and seafaring, in peace and at war, from pre-history to today
Location: Greenwich
Postcode: SE10 9NF MAP Telephone: 020 8858 4422
URL: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/
Natural History Museum National museum of natural history, and a centre of scientific excellence in taxonomy and biodiversity
Location: South Kensington - Tube
Postcode: SW7 5BD MAP Telephone: 020 7942 5011
URL: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
Old Operating Theatre Museum A memorable experience for any visitor interested in the past. The theatre itself is a shocking reminder of the harsh reality of life before modern science and technology
Location: London Bridge - Tube and Rail
Postcode: SE1 9RY MAP Telephone: 020 7955 4791
URL: http://www.thegarret.org.uk/
Petrie Museum Has one of the most inspiring collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world
Location: Goodge Streeet - Tube
Postcode: WC1E 6BT MAP Telephone: 020 7679 2884
URL: http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology One of the most inspiring collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world, illustrating life in the Nile Valley from prehistory through Pharaonic to Roman and Islamic times.
Postcode: WC1E 6BT MAP Telephone: 020 7679 2884
URL: http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/
Photographers' Gallery First independent gallery in Britain devoted to photography, was founded in 1971 at No 8 Great Newport Street. This building now houses the Gallery's primary exhibition space and a bookshop
Location: Leicester Square - Tube
Postcode: WC2H 7HY MAP Telephone: 020 7831 1772
URL: http://www.photonet.org.uk/
Pollock's Toy Museum and Toyshop Occupies two little houses joined together: The rooms are small and connected by very narrow winding staircases. This makes it more suitable and intriguing for small children than the spacious halls of conventional museums sometimes are.
Location: Goodge Street
Postcode: W1P 1LT MAP Telephone: 020 7636 3452
URL: http://www.pollockstoymuseum.com
Queen's House The upper floor of the House has been partly refitted and furnished to give an impression of its use as a Royal residence of the 1670s, and to display the NMM's early art collection
Location: Greenwich
Postcode: SE10 9NF MAP Telephone: 020 8858 4422
URL: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/
Ragged School Museum The purpose of the museum is to make the unique history of the East End of London, and in particular of the Copperfield Road Ragged School. Opened in 1990 in three canalside warehouses in Copperfield Road
Location: Stepney Green - Mile End - Tubes
Postcode: E3 4RR MAP Telephone: 020 8980 6405
URL: http://www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk/
Royal Air Force Museum Britain's National Museum of Aviation, celebrates the story of aviation from before the Wright Brothers to the RAF of the 21st Century with one of the world's finest collections of legendary aircraft and associated exhibits
Location: Colindale - Tube
Postcode: NW9 5LL MAP Telephone: 020 8205 2266
URL: http://www.rafmuseum.com/
Royal Artillery Museum Visitors to 'Firepower' can find out for themselves how artillery developed from the Roman ballista to modern missiles, how it works, and about the men and women of the Royal Artillery
Location: Woolwich Arsenal - Rail
Postcode: SE18 6ST MAP Telephone: 020 8855 7755
URL: http://www.firepower.org.uk/
Science Museum Welcomes over a million visitors a year
Location: South Kensington
Postcode: SW7 2DD MAP Telephone: 0870 870 4868
URL: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
Sir John Soane's Museum Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art. After the death of his wife (1815), he lived here alone, constantly adding to and rearranging his collections.
Location: Holburn -Tube
Postcode: WC2A 3BP MAP Telephone: 020 7440 4263
URL: http://www.soane.org/
The Foundling Museum The Foundling tells the story of London's first home for abandoned children, the Foundling Hospital, and chronicles the lives of the children through a fascinating social history exhibition.
Location: Brunswick Square, London
Postcode: WC1 1AZ MAP Telephone: 020 7841 3600
URL: http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk
Theatre Museum National Museum of the Performing Arts. Situated in the heart of London's theatreland, hold the world's largest and most important collections relating to the British stage
Location: Covent Garden - Tube
Postcode: WC2E 7PR MAP Telephone: 020 7943 4700
URL: http://www.theatremuseum.org
UCL Art Collections UCL Art Collections contain over 10,000 objects including paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture dating from 1490 to the present day. Works on paper are housed in the Strang Print Room, with paintings and sculpture displayed in public rooms around UCL.
Location: Strang Print Room, UCL, Gower Street
Postcode: WC1E 6BT MAP Telephone: 020 7679 2540
URL: http://www.art.museum.ucl.ac.uk
Victoria and Albert Museum The V&A is the worldıs greatest museum of design and the arts: its collections cover two thousand years up to the present, in virtually every medium and from Britain, Europe and Asia
Location: South Kensington - Tube
Postcode: SW7 2RL MAP Telephone: 020 7942 2000
URL: http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Wallace Collection Both a national museum and the finest private collection of art ever assembled by one family. It was bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, widow of Sir Richard Wallace, in 1897, and opened to the public just over three years later on 22 June 1900
Location: Marylebone
Postcode: W1U 3BN MAP Telephone: 020 7563 9500
URL: http://www.wallacecollection.org
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum and Tours Led by an experienced professional guide and just over an hour in duration excluding time spent in the Museum, this exclusive tour will take you behind the scenes of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
Location: Wimbledon
Postcode: SW19 5AE MAP Telephone: 020 8946 6131
URL: http://www.wimbledon.org/
