Museums in London

The British Museum is a staggering, massive institution dedicated entirely to human history, art, and culture. Its vast permanent collection of eight million historical works is among the largest in existence.

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is the world's leading museum of art, design, and performance, housing a massive permanent collection of over 2.27 million sweeping objects.

An art museum in Trafalgar Square housing a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900..

Tate Modern is London's popular, industrial gallery of international modern and contemporary art, housed inside the massive former Bankside Power Station directly on the River Thames.

The Natural History Museum is a beautiful, cathedral-like architectural masterpiece housing an awe-inspiring collection of life and earth sciences, focusing intensely on dinosaurs, paleontology, and spectacular geology.

Britain's national museum of war and conflict, telling stories of people's experiences of modern war from WWI to today..

A major museum on Exhibition Road featuring interactive exhibits about science, technology, engineering, and medicine..

Tate Britain is the beautiful, purely classical original Tate gallery situated on the riverside at Millbank. It holds the largest, most spectacular collection of purely British art in the world, stretching from the Tudor period to the present day.

A national museum in an historic house, displaying superb works of art including French 18th-century painting, furniture and porcelain..

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich is the world's largest maritime museum, exploring Britain's relationship with the sea through art, maps, ship models, and naval history. It occupies a magnificent Baroque building by Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

The Saatchi Gallery is London’s premier space for contemporary art. Housed in the magnificent Duke of York's HQ in Chelsea, it acts as a massive global springboard for unknown, boundary-pushing young artists.

Sir John Soane’s Museum is arguably the most eccentric, wonderfully chaotic, and deeply fascinating small museum in London. Left exactly untouched since his death in 1837, it is the deeply atmospheric historic house of the brilliant neoclassical architect.

The Churchill War Rooms are the underground bunker complex beneath Whitehall where Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet directed Britain's strategy during World War II. Now part of the Imperial War Museums, the rooms are preserved exactly as they were left in 1945.

The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form, from architecture and fashion to graphics, product, and industrial design. It sits elegantly on High Street Kensington in a spectacular 1960s modernist building.