London Art & Museums

Alex

The finest museums and galleries in London, most of them free and world-class.

Places(10)

The British Museum

Eight million objects spanning two million years of human history, including the Rosetta Stone and Elgin Marbles

The National Gallery

Over 2,300 Western European paintings from 1200 to 1900, free entry, right on Trafalgar Square

Tate Modern

The world's most visited modern art museum in a spectacular converted Bankside power station

Victoria and Albert Museum

The world's greatest museum of art and design, with 5,000 years of ceramics, fashion, jewellery, and sculpture

Natural History Museum

A magnificent Romanesque palace housing a blue whale skeleton, dinosaur fossils, and a dazzling gems vault

The Courtauld Gallery

A compact but extraordinary collection, home to Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere and Van Gogh's Self-Portrait

National Portrait Gallery

Faces of everyone who shaped Britain, from Tudor monarchs to David Bowie, freshly reopened after a major renovation

Serpentine Galleries

Two forward-thinking contemporary art spaces in Kensington Gardens, famous for their annual pavilion commission

Whitechapel Gallery

East London's pioneering gallery that first showed Picasso's Guernica in the UK — still ahead of the curve

Sir John Soane's Museum

An architect's house frozen in 1837, crammed with antiquities, Hogarth paintings, and Egyptian sarcophagi

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