Museums in London, United Kingdom

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British Museum
British Museum

Great Russell Street
London, GB WC1B 3DG
020-7323-8299
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

To enter the British Museum is to come from the grime and grind of modern day life into the gleaming light of antiquity – almost literally. The Great Court, formally a windy courtyard, has been ref...

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Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum

Cromwell Road
London, GB SW7 5BD
020-7938-9123, 20 7942 5000
www.nhm.ac.uk

The Natural History Museum sits among its own gardens, a Victorian palace to the wonders of nature. The museum is divided into two main sections, the Life and Earth galleries, linked by an escalato...

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Tate Modern
Tate Modern

Bankside
London, GB SE1 9TG
44 20 7887 8000
www.tate.org.uk

Few could have predicted the massive success of Tate Modern when the incredibly ugly Bankside power station became the home for Britain's most prized modern art. Don't go in the riverside entrance;...

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Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum

Cromwell Road at Exhibition Road
London, GB SW7 2RL
44 20 7942 2000
www.vam.ac.uk

The Victoria & Albert Museum has always been the “trendy” museum of the great three in Kensington (the other two being the Natural History and the Science museums.) Dedicated to the celebration of ...

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Madame Tussauds
Madame Tussauds

Marylebone Road
London, GB NW1 5LR
44 87 0999 0046
www.madame-tussauds.co.uk

There really was a Madame Tussaud, a collector of wax figures in 1770s France who started her career modeling the heads of guillotine victims during the French Revolution. She brought her collectio...

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Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museum

Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ, England
London, GB
44-20-7416-5000
www.iwm.org.uk

The Imperial War Museum may lie in a leafy suburb of Lambeth, but its message is hard-hitting and innovatively displayed. The award-winning museum charts conflicts involving Britain and Commonwealt...

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Cabinet War Rooms
Cabinet War Rooms

Clive Steps | King Charles St., London, England
London, GB
0171-930-6961
www.iwm.org.uk

As the outbreak of war became ever more likely at the end of the 1930s, this maze of interlocking rooms and tunnels was constructed under civil service buildings close to the Houses of Parliament a...

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Science Museum
Science Museum

Exhibition Road, London London SW7, England
London, GB SW7
020-7938-8000
www.nmsi.ac.uk

The Science Museums seven floors offer opportunities to explore the history of technology as well as to glimpse the future. Setting off from Launchpad, where you can get to grips with the laws of s...

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Tate Britain
Tate Britain

Millbank
London, GB SW1 P4RG
020-7887-8000
www.tate.org.uk

The London Tate Gallery, opened in 1897, is set in a beautiful palatial riverside edifice. Exhibiting Britian art from 1500 to present, the gallery is also known for its support of new and avant-ga...

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National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery

St Martin's Place
London, GB WC2H 0HE
020-7306-0055
www.npg.org.uk

The National Gallery's next-door neighbor has one of the most unprepossessing entrances, overshadowed by its own glitzy shop. Yet the National Portrait Gallery is a very contemporary place, where s...

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London Aquarium
London Aquarium

County Hall
London, GB SE1 7PB
020 7967 8000
www.londonaquarium.co.uk

The London Aquarium may be close to the river, but its waters are teeming with life not seen in the Thames. There are more than 350 species housed in more than 50 separate displays, from an English...

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Dali Universe
Dali Universe

County Hall, Riverside Bldg.
London, GB SE1 7BP
44 87 0744 7485
www.daliuniverse.com

Right next to the London Eye and the London Aquarium is the surprisingly successful Dali Universe. Surprising, because this commercial enterprise houses more than 500 works by the Catalan artist, i...

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Museum of London
Museum of London

150 London Wall
London, GB EC2Y 5HN
44 87 0444 3852
www.museumoflondon.org.uk

The Museum of London, tucked away under piles of concrete by a roundabout near the Barbican Centre, tells the story of the city from prehistoric times to the present day. The excellent Medieval Gal...

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National Gallery
National Gallery

Trafalgar Square
London, GB WC2N 5DN
020-7747-2885
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

Walking out of the manic noise of Trafalgar Square up into the newly restored Portico entrance of the National Gallery is a delight in itself. Gold gleams off elegant white stone, as Rembrandt an...

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Sir John Soane's Museum
Sir John Soane's Museum

13 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London, GB WC2A 3BP
44-20-7405-2107
www.soane.org

Everyone knows that London is home to some of the world's great museums - generally huge, famous places that can take days to peruse. But don't overlook some of the smaller gems in town. Sir John S...

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