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Museums
and Galleries in LondonLondon has hundreds of museums and galleries, many of which have temporary exhibitions. This is one of the ways they earn money and stimulate interest.
Many of the establishments provide free access to view their normal collections but charge for the temporary exhibitions. A few have free exhibitions. Some charge for both.
Below are links to about fifty museums and galleries we visit from time to time. Where possible the link takes you straight to what's on/temporary exhibitions.
| Establishment | About |
|---|---|
| Bank of England Museum | Bartholomew Lane EC |
| Barbican Gallery | various, Barbican |
| British Library | exhibitions related to their collection, St Pancras |
| British Museum | Artefacts from arround the world, Russell Square |
| Canal Museum | Canals in London, Kings Cross |
| Cartoon Museum | Britain’s cartoon, caricature, animation and comic art heritage, Wells Street W1A |
| Courtauld Gallery | Fine Arts, Somerset House |
| Design Museum | Design, living, Holland Park |
| Dulwich Picture Gallery | Fine Arts, Dulwich |
| Estorick Collection | Italian art, Islington |
| Fashion & Textiles Museum | Bermondsey Street |
| Garden Museum | Garden History, church tower views, Lambeth Palace Rd SE1 |
| Horniman Museum | Natural History, 100 London Road, SE23/Forest Hill sta |
| Imperial War Museum | war & holocaust galleries, Lambeth Road SE1 |
| Leighton, Sambourne House | Moorish influences, Victorian artists & living, Holland Park, Kensington |
| London Museum | moving to Smithfields, opens 2026 |
| London Transport Museum | Covent Garden |
| LT Acton Depot | historic vehicles, signs, maps plus, limited times, Acton |
| Museum of Brands | 200 years of consumer culture, Lancaster Road W11 |
| Museum of Docklands | History of London's Docks, North Quay West India Dock |
| Museum of the Home | living through the ages, former Geffrye Museum Hoxton |
| National Archives | Exhibitions based on items from their collection, Kew TW9 |
| National Gallery | Fine arts, Trafalgar Square |
| National Maritime Museum, Queen's House | Marine oriented exhibitions plus, Greenwich |
| National Portrait Gallery | portraits from Britain and overseas, St Martin's Place, WC2 |
| Natural History Museum | The Natural world, South Ken |
| Postal Museum | Underground railway and postal artefacts, 15-20 Phoenix Place WC1X |
| Queen's Gallery | Buckingham Palace |
| Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration | New River Head in Clerkenwell - reopens 2024 |
| Royal Academy | Fine Arts, Piccadilly |
| Science Museum | Science & Technology, South Ken |
| Sir John Soane Museum | architecture, Lincolns Inn Fields |
| South London Gallery | 65–67 Peckham Road SE5 & Police Sta |
| Tate Modern | Non-british art, south bank |
| Tate Britain | British art, Pimlico |
| 2 Temple Place | William Waldorf Astor's house, temporary collections, off Embankment |
| Victoria & Albert | Applied arts, living, South Ken |
| Wallace Collection | Fine Arts, Manchester Square |
| Wellcome Collection | the connections between science, medicine, life and art, Euston |
| Whitechapel Gallery | artists’ gallery, screenings etc. Whitechapel |
Other locations: Charles Dickens Museum, Cinema Museum, Cutty Sark, Dennis Severs' House, Film Museum, Foundling Museum, Freud Museum, Jewish Museum, Thames Barrier, Young V & A,