Best Museums in London
World-famous collections and hidden gems: the best museums in London.
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- 1Bloomsbury · Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DGTwo million years of human history under one roof, from the Rosetta Stone to Egyptian mummies, all free to see.
- 2South Kensington · Cromwell Road, SW7 5BDA cathedral-like Victorian building packed with dinosaurs, a blue whale skeleton and around 80 million specimens.
- 3South Kensington · Cromwell Road, SW7 2RLThe world's biggest museum of art and design, spanning fashion, ceramics and sculpture, with a gorgeous William Morris-designed café.
- 4Kensington · 224-238 Kensington High Street, W8 6AGA soaring former Commonwealth Institute building with a free permanent collection tracing how design shapes everyday life.
- 5South Kensington · Exhibition Road, SW7 2DDHands-on galleries covering space travel, engineering and medicine, with interactive zones that keep kids and adults equally hooked.
- 6Lambeth · Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZPowerful, thoughtfully curated galleries on modern conflict, from the First World War trenches to the Holocaust and beyond.
- 7Greenwich · Romney Road, SE10 9NFBritain's seafaring story told through ship models, navigation instruments and Nelson memorabilia, set in Greenwich's World Heritage site.
- 8Forest Hill · 100 London Road, SE23 3PQA charming south London gem with a famous overstuffed walrus, musical instruments, an aquarium and sweeping hilltop gardens.
- 9Holborn · 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3BPThe architect's eccentric townhouse, crammed with antiquities, Hogarth paintings and an Egyptian sarcophagus, left exactly as he wanted.
- 10Trafalgar Square · Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DNOne of the world's great collections of Western painting, with Van Gogh, Turner and Titian free to admire.
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