The British Museum is the oldest public museum in the world and a treasure
trove of objects from all over the globe. In more than two centuries,
the museum has built up a collection of over six million exhibits. You
will find everything from mummies to Ming. Highlights include the Elgin
Marbles, Egyptian mummies, Rosetta Stone and the Mildenhall Treasure.
There is also an extensive collections of Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities,
plus coins and medals, and prints and drawings. The recently opened Great
Court has transformed the Museum by covering the inner courtyard with
a glass and steel roof. It houses new galleries and a restaurant and a
dynamic new public piazza.
The Natural History Museum
Open
Monday-Saturday 10.00-17.50
Sunday 11.00-17.50
Last admission is at 17.30
The Natural History Museum
Getting there:
The Natural History Museum is a short walk from South Kensington underground
station, which is served by the Circle, District and Piccadilly Lines.
Bus routes 14, 49, 70, 74, 345 and C1 all have stops near the Museum
and a number of London tour buses now include the Museum as a stop on
their routes.
Galleries include:
Life Galleries
Dinosaurs, insects, ecology, human biology, mammals, primates, minerals
and origin of species.
Earth Galleries
Ancient and future Earth, treasures, changing landscapes and the 'earthquake
experience'.
Darwin Centre
22 million zoological specimens - tour the collections and meet Museum
scientists in this new building (now open).
Wildlife Garden
The Museum's first living exhibition.
The Design Museum
This museum is dedicated to the world of contemporary design.
You can discover over a century of the best in international design and
view state-of-the-art innovations. Furniture, domestic appliances and
graphics show the importance of design in our everyday lives.
A Coca Cola bottle and an Austin Mini car are among the
items on display. The museum has an innovative year-round programme of
special exhibitions which have covered subjects as diverse as vacuum cleaners
and Porsche cars.
Museum of London
London Wall, City of London
Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-6 pm, Sunday noon-6 pm
A visit to this attraction is like reading the life story of London. Various
stages of London’s extensive history are shown in the many rooms
and galleries.
Firepower Museum
Found on the site of the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, the
Firepower museum is one of London's newest. A visit here will immerse
you in a ground-shaking Field of Fire where the sights and sounds, emotions
and bombardments of gunners during war and peace are relived. Displays
also include a hands-on gallery and rifle simulator illuminating the science
and history of artillery from the 13th century to the present day. The
museum is
The Imperial War Museum
The Imperial War Museum is the National Museum, dedicated
to conflict in the 20th-century, both on the home front and in the front
line and covers everything from the two World Wars to the Falklands and
Bosnia. In the huge entrance hall, six famous aircraft are on display,
including a Battle of Britain Spitfire. Rising dramatically from the floor
are a German V2 rocket and a Polaris missile. The Blitz Experience invites
visitors to find out what it was like to be a Londoner in 1940 in an air-raid.
Relive the Trench Experience which shows what life was really like in
the trenches during the First World War.
The Science Museum
Here, you will find the world’s most comprehensive
collections of science, technology, industry and medicine. You can learn
about space flight, or find out about steam locomotives and the world’s
first aeroplanes. Charles Babbage’s calculating machine, Stephenson’s
Rocket and the Apollo 10 command module that made the first manned flight
around the moon are all on display. There is a special interactive gallery
for children called Launch Pad, where you can build a bridge and fly a
plane. The Challenge of Materials Gallery shows how a dress can be made
out of metal, shoes out of chocolate and a coffin out of Bakelite!
The Victoria and Albert Museum
This is undoubtibly the world’s finest museum of decorative
arts. Throughout the Victoria and Albert Museum, there are collections
dating from 3000 BC including furniture, textiles, paintings, ceramics,
sculpture, jewellery, silver, books, prints and photographs. Particularly
beautiful are the glass gallery, with its stunning glass staircase, the
new silver gallery with its superbly-made artefacts in precious metal,
and the dress collection.
The National Maritime Museum
Discover Britain’s seafaring history and looks at
exploration and discovery, military power, trade and empire, luxury liners,
Nelson and costume in a visit to The National Maritime Museum. Nearby
is the Royal Observatory Greenwich, where Greenwich Mean Time starts and
Queen's House, the first classical-style house in England designed by
Inigo Jones.
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