MUSEUMS & GALLERIES OF LONDON

London is home to many museums, galleries, and other institutions which are major tourist attractions as well as playing a research role. The city also houses extensive art collections.

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MUSEUMS OF LONDON: Apsley House, Bank of England Museum, Benjamn Franklin House, British Library, British Museum, Imperial War Museum, Museum of London, National Gallery, National Maritime Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Sherlock Holmes Museum, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A Museum of Childhood, Wallace Collection,

APSLEY HOUSE Apsley House, also known as Number 1, London, was the London residence of the First Duke of Wellington and stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park. The house was given the popular nickname of Number 1, London, since it was the first house passed by visitors who travelled from the countryside ...

BANK OF ENGLAND MUSEUM The Bank of England Museum is located on the eastern side of the Bank of England, London, England in Bartholomew Lane. The museum is open to the public, free of charge, on weekdays only and on the day of the Lord Mayor's Show. It covers around 10,000 square feet and includes a reconstruction of a late 18th century office ...

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOUSE Benjamin Franklin House is a museum in a terraced house in Craven Street, London, close to Trafalgar Square. It is the only surviving former home of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The house dates from circa 1730 and Franklin lived and worked there for sixteen years ...

BRITISH LIBRARY The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. The library is one of the world's largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings ...

BRITISH MUSEUM The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present ...

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM The Imperial War Museum is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. The museum was founded during the First World War in 1917 and intended as a record of the war effort and sacrifice of Britain and her Empire ...

MUSEUM OF LONDON The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Prehistoric to the present day. The museum is located close to the Barbican Centre, as part of the striking Barbican complex of buildings created in the 1960s and 70s as an innovative approach to re-development within a bomb damaged area of the City ...

NATIONAL GALLERY The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. The gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection belongs to the public ...

NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, England is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world. The historic buildings forming part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, it also incorporates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich ...

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in London, housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait gallery in the world when it opened in 1856. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery ...

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London. Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road. The museum is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport ...

SCIENCE MUSEUM The Science Museum is one of the three major museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington. The museum is a major London tourist attraction. The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including such famous items as Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy, the first jet engine ...

SHERLOCK HOLMES MUSEUM The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a popular privately-run museum in London, England, dedicated to the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. It opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street, bearing the number 221b by permission of the City of Westminster, although it lies between numbers 237 and 241, close to Regent's Park ...

TATE BRITAIN Tate Britain is a part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It was the first established of these museums, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the work of J.M.W. Turner. It is housed on the site of Millbank Prison ...

TATE MODERN The Tate Modern in London is Britain's national museum of international modern art and is, with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate Online, part of the group now known simply as Tate. The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott ...

VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to 145 galleries ...

V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD The V&A Museum of Childhood (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to now cover some 145 galleries ...

WALLACE COLLECTION The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries ...

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