London City Guide

NaturalHistory Museum

Cromwell Road, SW7
Tube: South Kensington
Tel: 020 7942 5000

Discover and understand the natural world and our place in it through the amazing displays and exhibitions this prestigious museum has to offer.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Cromwell Road, SW7
Tube: South Kensington
Tel: 020 7942 2000

The V&A is possibly the world’s greatest museum of applied and decorative arts. Home to amazing artefacts from the world’s richest cultures, the V&A’s incredible collection has enthused and informed for over 150 years.

Science Museum

Exhibition Road, SW7
Tube: South Kensington
Tel: 020 7730 0717
Explore the wonders of our industrial and technological age where exhibits include such wonders as a full size replica of Stephenson's Rocket and a detailed reconstruction of the Apollo landing craft. There's also one of the first electric telegraph machines from 1846, a tad more bulky than today's mobile phone!

TheatreMuseum

Russell Street, WC2
Tube: Covent Garden
Tel: 020 7943 4700

Discover the story of performing arts through the museum’s rich collections that relate to opera, ballet, music hall and puppetry and Edwardian melodrama to name but a few. Try on Toads webbed gloves (from Wind in the Willows, National Theatre production) or play at being a stage manager.

London Dungeons

Tooley Street, SE1
Tube: LondonBridge
Tel: 020 7403 7221

Beneath the vaults of London Bridge Station lurks the London Dungeons, a labyrinth of Gothic horrors. One can discover the various methods of torture and early surgery – not for the squeamish!

LondonTransport museum

Wellington Street, WC2
Tube: Covent Garden
Tel: 020 7379 6344

NationalMaritime Museumand Queen’s House

Romney Road, Greenwich, SE10
Tel: 020 8858 4422
Tube: Cutty Sark

NationalArmy Museum

Royal Hospital Road, SW3
Tube: Sloane Square
Tel: 020 7379 6344

This is a lively and interactive museum that evocatively tells the story of the British soldier. Visitors can try out kit from different eras right up to the present day, examine a huge model of Waterloo, investigate a reproduction WWI trench and assess modern 'military' skills in exciting computer challenges.

Museum in Docklands

Warehouse, West India Quay
Tube: West India Quay
Tel: 0870 444 3857

Focuses on the story of London’s River, Port and People over 2000 years from Roman settlement through to the recent regeneration. The Museum is located over five floors of a splendid late Georgian warehouse displaying multi – media, and traditional museum displays.

Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum

St Mary’s Hospital, Praed Street, W2
Tube: Paddington
Tel: 020 7886 6528

Wallace collection

Hertford Street, W1
Tube: Bond Street
Tel:020 7563 9500

The hallway and drawing room of Wallace’s 18c house have been carefully restored to its former glory. Explore this wondrous house containing such marvels as Marie Antoinette’s writing desk, Catherine the Great’s crockery and a collection of Old Masters.

HandelHouse Museum

Brook Street, W1
Tube: Bond Street
Tel: 020 7399 1964

It was here that Handel composed his greatest works, including Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Fireworks Music. This enchanting house evocatively tells the story of Handels life through fine and decorative art including important works from the Handel House Collection.

BritishMuseum

Great Russell Street, WC1
Tube: Holborn, Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road
Tel: 020 7636 1555

The BritishMuseum is best known for its antiquities from Greece and Egypt and these dominate the highlights that should be seen on any first visit. With seventy thousand exhibits ranged over two and a half miles of galleries, the museum boasts one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of antiquities, prints and drawings to be housed under one roof – seven million at last count.