Don't miss out these Museums in London!

British Museum, London

There is such an amazing number of museums in London! This would not be possible to count them or to make an exhaustive list of them! And there are some about every subject you could think of! Therefore, we won't try to list all of them here, just a few we would like to recommend. And don't forget, there are a lot of free and excellent museum in London!

In the centre of London

  • British Museum, you can't miss that one! There are free permanent exhibitions as well as non-free special exhibitions, Objects from the whole world and an inside architecture light and with plenty of light in big contrast to the imposing outside architecture of the building.
  • Museum of London, this museum tells the story of London in a nice and easy way.
  • Bank of England Museum
  • London Transport Museum, in Covent Garden, not free. Here you will discover how the transports of London have evolved with the time.
  • National Gallery, painting gallery on Trafalgar Square.
  • National Portrait Gallery, gallery behind Trafalgar Square.
  • Tate Gallery of Modern Art, gallery near the River Thames, also simply called the "Tate Modern".
  • Tate Britain, painting gallery near the River Thames and not far away from the Parliament.
  • Charles Dickens Museum
  • Somerset House
  • Cartoon Museum
  • Design Museum
  • Fashion and Textile Museum

In the south of Kensington Gardens in South Kensington

  • National History Museum, excellent museum for children, but also for adults! Funny pedagogic and interative activities as well as workshops during the school holidays.
  • Science Museum, a very good way to introduce children into the world of the sciences. Funny pedagogic and interative activities.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
  • National Geographic Society Gallery, also in the south of Kensington Gardens on the northest end of Exhibition Road.
  • Serpentine Gallery, gallery along the street which separates Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens.

Between Regent's Park and Oxford Street/New Oxford Street

  • Wallace Collection, north of Oxford Street.
  • Madame Tussauds, the very well-known wax figures museum,  south of Regent's Park.
  • Sherlock Holmes Museum, the museum is in the south-west of Regent's Park and presents the house where the legendaire Sherlock Holmes is supposed to have lived.
  • Pollock's Toy Museum

Near Paddington Station

  • Alexander Fleming Laboratory, in the St-Mary's Hospital.