State rooms of the official residence of Elizabeth II - Buckingham Palace- open to the public in August and September when the Queen is away. There are a total of 775 rooms in the palace, 19 are open to the public, which members of the royal family use for meetings and official ceremonies. The chambers are decorated in the taste of George IV: there are many interior details from Carlton House, where the monarch lived before taking the throne, as well as paintings by Van Dyck and Canaletto, sculpture by Canova, Sèvres porcelain and the best examples of English and French furniture.

In addition, the palace is constantly open to the public The Queen's Gallery, where temporary exhibitions and exhibitions of the royal collection, rich in masterpieces of world art, are organized.

National Gallery

A mecca for lovers of old master art in Trafalgar Square, its attendance is comparable to the Louvre, the Hermitage and the Metropolitan. Here you can see a magnificent collection of works of Western European painting from Giotto to Cezanne, including paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bruegel the Elder, and Vermeer. Appropriate exhibitions are held here - mainly blockbusters from the works of old masters, which also include works from the royal collection.

National Portrait Gallery

As the name suggests, it contains portraits of prominent Britons, including the so-called Chandos Portrait, which supposedly depicts William Shakespeare - the gallery's very first acquisition. A separate theme is the gallery of monarchs, from the 1592 portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, also known as the Ditchley portrait, to the 2009 canvas of Princes William and Harry. Exhibitions of both classical and modern art are held here, the main thing is that portraits are exhibited. The museum is compactly located with the National Gallery - you just need to turn the corner.

Courtauld Institute of Art

Not far from the National Gallery, in the Strand, is Somerset House with a gallery located there Courtauld Institute of Art. In essence, this is an educational collection: according to the founders of the institute, students were supposed to study the history of art “without leaving the cash register” - but its quality and completeness claim to be at the highest museum level. It began with the meeting of the industrialist Samuel Courtauld with the French Impressionists and grew with private collections throughout the 20th century. Now you can see art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, including works by Bruegel the Elder, Cranach, Rubens, Botticelli, Tiepolo, Goya, Modigliani and Kandinsky.

Royal Academy of Arts

A stronghold of tradition in Piccadilly, with a collection of British art and numerous exhibitions of both classics and contemporary works. Every year, for almost 250 years, they have held a festival here, which is accompanied by a noisy party. Management Academy this, as it were, refutes the myth that artists become popular after death, and honors living academicians in the exhibition - Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Marina Abramovich and many others.

Photo: John Bodkin

Victoria & Albert Museum

The prestigious gallery, whose patron was Princess Diana, is located in the Tea Pavilion in Kensington Gardens and presents art of the 20th century. Over 45 years, more than two thousand exhibitions of both beginning artists and stars such as Man Ray, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons have taken place here. For more than fifteen years, outstanding contemporary architects have been building for the gallery, from Oscar Niemeyer and Jean Nouvel to Rem Koolhaas, Peter Zumthor and. The latter also designed another exhibition space for the gallery - the Serpentine Sackler Gallery located here.

Serpentine Galleries temporary pavilion in 2017

Tate

Now in the group of museums Tate, by far the most famous - located opposite St. Peter's Cathedral in the building of a former power station. The project of its construction, carried out by the Herzog & de Meuron bureau, has become an exemplary one for the whole world in the field of habitation of abandoned industrial spaces. Now the museum occupies a leading position among the world institutions of contemporary art, not least thanks to large exhibitions in the Turbine Hall, where they showed, and many others. First Tate Britain- gallery of British art - it is worth going for the art of the Pre-Raphaelites and the most representative collection of William Turner.

British Museum

Like all developing museums in the world, British museum periodically suffers from a lack of space in an early 19th century building and invites eminent architects and bureaus to expand in Bloomsbury. Thus, Sir Norman Foster redesigned the interior space and covered the courtyard, and the World Restoration and Exhibition Center was built according to the project of Rogers Stirk Harbor + Partners. The British Museum is now the largest historical and archaeological museum in the world, with magnificent collections of the ancient world, especially in the ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman sections. Here, in particular, you can see a statue of Pharaoh Ramses II and figures from the pediment of the Parthenon.

Saatchi Gallery

Advertiser, collector and art dealer who gave birth to the Young British Artists movement Charles Saatchi reopened his huge conceptual art gallery in Chelsea in 2008. The exhibitions focus on young unknown artists with potential or those who have rarely or never exhibited in the UK.

Newport Street Gallery

One of the most famous artists of the association Young British Artists opened in 2015 in Vauxhall, which was converted from his studio according to the Caruso St John project. In addition to works of art from Hirst’s own collection (some of which could be seen at the exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow), including works by and, there are personal and group exhibitions of authors close to Hirst in spirit or those who at one time influenced him.

Wallace Collection

The basis Wallace meeting is the private collection of the Marquises of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, which they successively developed in Hertford for over a century, between 1760 and 1880. And they succeeded a lot in decorating their property in Marylebone with weapons and armor, furniture from the era of Louis XV, exquisite objects and paintings by old masters - Titian, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Murillo and Velazquez, as well as an extensive collection of French paintings with paintings by Boucher, Delacroix and Watteau. After Wallace's death, his widow donated a magnificent collection to the state with the condition that her husband's memory be perpetuated by organizing a museum, from which not a single exhibit can be transferred even to temporary exhibitions and also cannot be accepted.

The Geoffrey Museum

Located in a former almshouse Geoffrey Museum, or as it is also called, the "Museum of Houses", recreates home interiors and garden design from the early 17th century until the 1990s. Here you can see a Victorian tea room, ladies' salons, a hippie studio and loft-style apartments. The museum is often called "the coziest in Britain."

Sir John Soane's Museum

Former home of the architect Sir John Soane, who designed the building at 10 Downing Street and the Bank of England. The interiors of the building on Lincoln Inn Fields are decorated with paintings by Canaletto and Watteau, more than 250 building models, a collection of architectural drawings and the alabaster sarcophagus of Pharaoh Seti I. Yet the most valuable exhibit here is considered to be a series of eight paintings by William Hogarth “The Career of a Spendthrift” (“The Adventures of The Rake"), which the architect's wife purchased at Christie's in 1802, and later Igor Stravinsky used this plot to write an opera.

Here you can also look at authentic interiors, since the architect’s will that everything remain as it was during his lifetime has been fulfilled for almost two hundred years. However, it also hosts temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists, such as Marc Quinn and.

Whitechapel Gallery

Whitechapel Gallery in Tower Hamlets, east London, was founded in 1901 with the aim of educating the local population. Over the years, the gallery has strengthened its position in exhibiting contemporary and contemporary art, and there is even a joke here that the history of the Whitechapel Gallery is a history of firsts: in 1939, the institution exhibited Picasso’s famous “Guernica” during its first and only show in the UK, and in 1958 it hosted the first UK exhibition of American Expressionist Jackson Pollock. Then there were David Hockney, Gilbert and George, Richard Long, Donald Judd and so on - it’s easier to name who didn’t exhibit here. At the same time, Whitechapel Gallery does not forget about traditions and presents a rich educational program and a variety of public events.

Barbican Art Center

This complex of buildings in the Brutalist style was designed to host classical and contemporary music concerts, theater performances, film screenings and exhibitions. Exhibitions are shown in two galleries and are usually related to photography, design or decorative arts. But not only that - they also show retrospectives of great artists like Basquiat and high-tech entertainment projects.

The Zabludowicz Collection

Anita And Poju Zabludovich began collecting contemporary art in the mid-1990s and, until it had its own space, collaborated with museums. The couple is not limited to a specific direction and brings together artists from all over the world with an emphasis on American and European. Now the collection, numbering over 3,000 works by 500 authors, is exhibited in a former 19th-century Protestant chapel in north London. The list of highlights of the collection includes works by Sigmar Polke, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Harun Mirza. It also hosts group and solo exhibitions by artists who are not part of any UK gallery pool.

Philanthropists support many institutions, including the Tate and Whitechapel Gallery, and the artists who create works specifically for them. In addition to the UK, The Zabludowicz Collection There are representative offices in the USA and Finland.

Exhibition "Library of Babylon" (2010) at The Zabludowicz Collection

White Cube

One of the world's most successful and renowned commercial galleries, based in Hong Kong, it rose to prominence after hosting some of the first exhibitions of Young British Artists, including Tracey Emin. Especially for White Cube In Bermondsey, a 1970s building was renovated and the gallery now has one of the largest themed spaces in the world - over 5,000 sq. m. In addition to three exhibition halls, there are also rooms for private art showings, an auditorium and a bookshop.

Serith Wyn Evans exhibition at White Cube

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London provides endless opportunities for tourists interested in museums and exhibitions. Here the largest museums in the world await them, and every tourist can find something to suit his taste. In this article, we would like to help you choose the best from this incredibly beautiful and varied collection.

Natural History Museum

In some guidebooks you can find its second name - the Museum of Natural History - located in one of the most beautiful buildings in London and presents hundreds of interactive animated exhibits of dinosaurs, mammals, an unforgettable thirty-meter model of a blue whale and the skeleton of a giant diplodocus.

The museum presents 4 thematic zones:

• Blue zone: dinosaurs, reptiles, marine life, mammals.
• Green zone: birds, insects, plants.
• Red zone: geology, volcanoes, earthquakes.
• Orange Zone: Darwin City Center and Wildlife Gardens.

On the tour you can see hundreds of fascinating specimens and look into the laboratories where scientists work. In the center of Darwin, at the High Tech Studio, you can take part in discussions about science and nature.

Opening hours: Every day from 10.00 to 17.50, ticket offices open until 17.30. On the last Friday of every month - until 20.00. The museum is closed from December 24 to 26.

Entrance to the museum is free.

How to get to the Natural History Museum?

Address: Cromwell Road, London, SW7

Metro: South Kensington; Buses: 9, 10, 14, 49, 52, 70, 74, 345, 414

How to get to the museum without queuing : The main entrance to the Museum is located on Cromwell Road, but if there is a long queue at the entrance, go around the building on the right along Exibition Road - there is also an entrance through the Red Zone.

British Museum

Address: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG

Metro: Tottenham Court Road, Holborn, Russell Square;Buses: 1, 7, 8, 10, 14, 19, 24, 25, 29, 38, 55, 59, 68, 73, 91, 98, 134, 168, 188, 242, 390

National Gallery

How to get to Madame Tussauds?

Address: Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LR

Metro: Marylebone; Buses: No. 274, 113, 82, 74, 30, 27, 18, 13 or 3.

Museum of London

You can learn the history of the capital of Great Britain and see how its appearance has changed from the times of the Roman Empire to the present day at the Museum of London. The ancient Saxons, the stunning Middle Ages, the turbulent years of civil wars, the horrors of the plague and devastating fires - all are reflected in his exhibitions. At the Gallery of Modern London, you can stroll through the streets of Victorian London and admire the magnificent Lord Mayor's carriage.

Opening hours: daily from 10.00 to 18.00, ticket office open until 17.30, the museum is closed from December 24 to 26.

Entrance to the museum is free.

How to get to the Museum of London?

Address: 150 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5HN

Metro: St. Paul's

Royal Observatory Greenwich

The Greenwich Meridian Line, located at longitude 0° and long the center of world time, runs across the cobbled courtyard and attracts visitors from all over the world to stand on both sides of the world at the same time. The Prime Meridian separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, and time zones are measured from it.

There are several museums located here - a 120-seat Planetarium, the house-museum of the royal astronomer John Flamsteed, and a museum of astronomical and navigational instruments. If you walk up to the statue of General Wolfe, you will be treated to a wonderful panorama of London.

Don't forget to take a photo with one foot in the Eastern Hemisphere and the other in the Western Hemisphere!

Opening hours

Ticket price: £10.00 – adults.

How to get to the Royal Observatory?

Address: Greenwich Park, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF

Metro: Greenwich, Cutty Sark;Buses: No. 53, 54, 177, 180, 188, 199, 202, 286, 380, 386.

Imperial War Museum London (IWM)

The main goal of the Museum is to show how difficult war can be for all humanity. Currently, the museum is undergoing a global reconstruction of the building and most of the exhibitions are under restoration, but nevertheless, each war period corresponds to an exhibition of a certain era, and not only from the battlefield, but also from the lives of individual people. Guns, tanks, planes, submarines and even a 19-meter-high Polaris rocket will appeal to boys of any age!

We warn you that access to the area around the museum is temporarily limited due to reconstruction.

Opening hours: daily from 10.00 to 17.00, ticket office open until 16.30.

Entrance to the museum is free

How to get to the Imperial War Museum?

Address: Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ

Tube: Lambeth North, Elephant & Castle;Buses: No. 1, 3, 12, 45, 53, 59, 63, 68, 100, 159, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 344.

Museum of Horror (The London Dungeon)

You can discover many exciting, scary and funny stories from the life of London at the Museum of Horror. It's no secret that when it comes to history, horror is the most memorable. Thrilling rides, special effects, real actors and dark corridors... Are you brave enough to face horrors from London's history, such as medieval torture, the plague, Jack the Ripper and Sweeney Todd? You get nervous from terrible emotions, but remember that there are new exciting attractions in store for the finale!

Opening hours: Daily except Christmas Day. Opening hours vary throughout the year, see the museum website for more details.

Ticket price: £21.00 (buy in advance).

How to get to the Museum of Horrors?

Address: County Hall, Riverside Building, London, SE1 7PB

Metro: London Bridge; Buses: No. 21, 35, 40, 43, 47, 48, 49, 133.

How to get to the museum without queuing: You can save on buying tickets online, and you won't have to wait in line if you buy "preferential admission" tickets.

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London is a city home to many museums, exhibitions, galleries and other cultural sites that attract tourists from all over the world. The British Museum is one of those places that is visited by millions of people. It is second in the world in terms of the number of exhibits after. 94 galleries with a total length of 4 kilometers - this is what awaits everyone who wants to visit this cultural landmark of London.

History and architecture of the British Museum

The history of the British Museum began with a private collection of exhibits. The English doctor Hans Sloane, who was also a famous collector of antiquities, traveler and naturalist, made a will during his lifetime. It said that for a completely symbolic fee he was donating his exhibits to King George II. At that time, the collection consisted of more than 70,000 items.

The British museum was founded on June 7, 1753 by a special act of Parliament. Subsequently, it was the Parliament that acquired exhibits from collectors in order to replenish the museum’s fund. For the opening, the museum was replenished with the Harley Library and the Cotton Library. And in 1757, the Royal Library joined the collections. Among the exhibits were genuine literary treasures, including the only surviving copy of Beowulf.

In 1759, the British Museum was officially opened to visitors at Montagu House. But not everyone could get here, only a select few. The British Museum became available for public visits almost 100 years later, but more on that later.

At the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century, the museum bought Hamilton's collection of antique vases, Greville's minerals, and Lord Elgin's Parthenon marbles, which to this day are the real pearl of the exhibition. The Anglo-Egyptian War played an important role in the development of the British Museum, as a result of which Egypt became one of the protectorates of Great Britain. At this time, many antiquities, works of art and treasures were taken from Egypt, and this was done illegally.

The collection grew and there was a need to divide the museum by subject. But every year the space became less and less. In 1823, work began on the construction of a separate building for exhibits. The architect of the British Museum was Robert Smerk, who conceived the project in a neo-Greek style. A special feature of the building is 44 Ionic columns on the southern façade.

Construction lasted just over 30 years and in 1847 the doors of the British Museum opened to the general public. The museum's gable was built in the 1850s and was designed by Sir Richard Westmacott. Originally, the pediment would have had numbers showing "Progress of Civilization" - an idea that now seems old-fashioned. But the architect decided to depict progress differently. If you look closely, on the far left you will see an uneducated man emerging from behind a rock. He studies things such as sculpture, music and poetry, becoming "civilized". All objects are personified and represented by human figures. From left to right: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Science, Geometry, Drama, Music and Poetry.

But work on the project did not stop there - in 1857 the Great Courtyard was built, where the Round Reading Room was located in the center.

By the beginning of the 20th century, the museum had many exhibits brought from the Middle East, which was the result of archaeological excavations in Mesopotamia. Later, some collections were separated into the Natural History Museum, and in 1972 the British Library also broke away, leaving reminders of itself in the form of the aforementioned reading room. In 2000, architect Norman Foster redesigned a number of rooms and also built a glass roof over the Courtyard.

Today the British Museum's collection numbers 13 million items. Of course, one visit is not enough to see them all. But the fact that this attraction cannot be ignored is clear.

Sections of the British Museum and their famous exhibits

The British museum is divided into 6 themes, which combine archaeological and cultural objects from different countries and periods:

Ancient Egypt and Nubia

Here you can see the largest collection of sarcophagi and mummies (including the mummy of Cleopatra), the obelisk of Pharaoh Nectanebo II, the mathematical papyrus of Ahmes, 382 and 95 tablets of the Amarna archive, a fragment of the Sphinx's beard and the famous Roszeta Stone (a stone slab on which three identical texts are carved, one in ancient Greek and two in ancient Egyptian, one written in demotic script and the other in hieroglyphs).

Africa, East and South Asia, Oceania, Mesoamerica

These halls contain Benin bronzes, the Diamond Sutra, the Book of Fortune-Telling, Kanishka stupas, a collection of Chinese porcelain (Percival David Foundation), and an ancient Chinese scroll, Instructions of the Senior Court Lady.

The Ancient East

Those who are interested in the culture and archeology of the East will be very interested in visiting this exhibition. Among the numerous exhibits here there is a cylinder of Cyrus, a prism of Sennacherib, jewelry of the priestess Shubad, paired figurines of “Rams in the Thicket” from 4,500 years ago, a collection of bas-reliefs, and the Balavat gate of Shalmaneser III.

Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome

There are interesting exhibits here, among which are fragments of the excavations of the Knossos Palace, fragments of the frieze of the Temple of Nike Apteros, the frieze of the Temple of Apollo in Bassae, the Warren Cup, the Portland Vase, and the Elgin marbles from the Acropolis.

UK and Europe

It contains the gold cup of Charles V, the cape from Mold, the Franks casket, the Isle of Lewis chess set, Fuller's brooches, Anglo-Saxon hoards and Lindow Man - the remains of a man who died during the Iron Age.

Graphics and engraving

The gallery features famous engravings such as Goya's "Disasters of War", graphic drawings by Raphael, Albrecht Durer, Michelangelo, William Blake, Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt.

Information for visitors: where it is located, opening hours and how much admission costs

British Museum address: Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.

Nearest bus stop: Montague Street (Stop L).

Nearest metro stations: Tottenham Court Road, Russell Square, Holborn.

Entrance to the British Museum: free, except for guest exhibitions. The museum has donation boxes where tourists throw one or two pounds into the museum fund.

Schedule: the museum is open daily from 10:00 to 17:30, on Fridays from 10:00 to 20:30. Some galleries may be closed without prior notice.

It is better to find out more about the opening hours of the halls and temporary exhibitions on the official website.

On the grounds of the British Museum there is a gift shop and two cafes where you can grab a bite to eat after a long walk through the galleries.

A half-hour walk from the British Museum is located, which every guest of the city should also see. To have time to get to know the capital of Great Britain, you need to stay here for at least a week. Our catalog includes - most of them are within walking distance of the main attractions.

British Museum on the map of London

London is a city home to many museums, exhibitions, galleries and other cultural sites that attract tourists from all over the world. The British Museum is one of those places that is visited by millions of people. It is second in the world in terms of the number of exhibits after. 94 galleries with a total length of 4 kilometers..." />

The British Museum is not only the largest museum in London, it is also a real treasury of various monuments and other cultural heritage of our ancestors. It is the oldest museum and includes several smaller museums. The largest collection of countless cultural monuments of a wide variety of profiles is collected here.

But besides it, there are quite a few large and famous museums in London that deserve no less close attention.

The British Museum is one of the most magnificent and popular museums in the world

The beginning of collecting famous collections dates back to the mid-eighteenth century. It was from this time that the history of the world famous museum began. The museum building itself was designed and built over thirty years thanks to the efforts of the architect Robert Smerk and his brother Sidney Smerk.

This museum includes smaller museums, which makes it possible to collect cultural and historical values ​​of various profiles in one place. So there is the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography, a huge library, a unique collection of various engravings and drawings, as well as the famous Natural History Museum in London, which occupied a separate building about one hundred and thirty years ago.

At the British Museum You can get acquainted with a magnificent collection of unique cultural monuments from various countries that were taken out by English subjects during archaeological excavations. There is a rich collection of monuments of ancient Egyptian culture, reliefs of Assyrian palaces, complexes of Greek culture, as well as statues and reliefs from the Greek seventh Wonder of the World - the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

This famous museum also preserves with great care and reverence an extremely valuable collection of Mexican masks and statues made of bronze and stone, brought directly from India and Ceylon. Particular attention of tourists from all over the world is attracted by elements of creative collections created by masters of Equatorial Africa many centuries ago.

It is impossible to list all the riches of the British Museum, and there is no way to go around and explore all its halls in one excursion, even if it lasts the whole day.

When visiting the museum, museum guides recommend paying special attention to such unique and admirable sections:

• ancient Egyptian collection,
• Department of Antiquities of Western Asia,
• Department of Art of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome,
• Department of Prehistoric Antiquities and Monuments of Roman Britain,
• department of monuments of the Middle Ages and modern times,
• department of oriental monuments,
• separation of coins and medals,
• department of prints and drawings,
• Department of Ethnography.

The relevance of the existence of the British Museum is increasing day by day because nowadays the desire for a close acquaintance with various museum collections, as well as the need to study them, is becoming more and more popular among all kinds of social groups of world society. The British National Museum operates as a socio-cultural institution, and every year it gains a stronger and more stable position in the system of cultural education of visitors from all over the world.

That is why at present this amazing museum has become a unifying link for various personalities with completely different cultural interests in their areas.

The British Museum in London is one of the most striking examples of the progressive development of cultural tourism in Great Britain, because not a single tourist route through this wonderful country is ever complete without a mandatory visit to the British National Museum in London.

Unique treasures of London's most famous museums

In addition to the British Museum, London has many other noteworthy museums that can be called a worthy representation of Great Britain as the cultural capital of Europe.

London contains the largest collection of wax figures in the entire world. It includes not only figures of historical and famous personalities, but also successfully reflects everything that is happening now throughout the world. Thus, wax figures of many famous actors, scientists, politicians, musicians and singers, as well as public figures were created from wax, and to this day are regularly replenished.

Sherlock Holmes Museum in London- a unique museum of its kind, consisting of a souvenir shop, a recreated apartment of the famous detective and a large museum of wax figures of heroes from various works about Sherlock Holmes.

Harry Potter Museum in London- the most desirable museum for teenagers and young people around the world to visit. When you take a tour of this wonderful museum, you can get straight into the much-loved magical novel about a boy magician. In the museum, every visitor has the opportunity to see with his own eyes the Hogwarts School of Wizardry, as well as the famous Dumbledore's office and the village of Hogsmeade. In addition, everyone can try sugar feathers and caramel bombs in the magical Sweet Kingdom confectionery, enjoy beer in the Three Broomsticks magical bar, and also learn how to properly use a magic wand.

Special fans of the Harry Potter saga can even try to learn how to brew real witchcraft potions, see with their own eyes the dressing rooms of the actors in films about the boy wizard, and receive real magic paint as a gift from the makeup artists.

London is not only known for such museums. Victoria and Albert Museum, founded in the eighteenth century, is known throughout the world as the largest museum presenting one-of-a-kind collections of decorative, applied and fine arts. Vast in area, it consists of one hundred and fifty halls that house the most valuable exhibits of various types.

Natural History Museum London will introduce everyone to the evolution of all living things, and indeed life itself on planet Earth. At the moment, the complete collection includes more than seventy exhibits, including plants, animals, insects, stones and minerals, as well as a huge number of paleontological exhibits.

National Museum London is a unique British landmark. Its rich exhibition perfectly illustrates the history of the British fleet, the most important chapter in the history of the entire development of the state. The collection of this national museum contains about two and a half million exhibits on the theme of the fleet.

Science Museum London is one of the UK's most popular tourist museums, attracting huge numbers of visitors every day from all over the world. The rich collection contains thousands of exhibits dedicated to science, technical inventions, mechanical engineering, medicine, and design.

War museums in London contain extensive collections that include wonderful and educational exhibits of military equipment, weapons, and things from the war years. Additionally, when visiting such museums, you can familiarize yourself with public libraries, photographic archives and art collections with exhibits about armed conflicts of all times.

Among all the famous world-famous museums, there are some that require an entrance fee, but most of them are known as free museums in London. Among these:

• The Museum of London, where you can learn in detail about the history of the city from the creation of the first settlement to the present day,
• Victoria and Albert Museum,
• Science Museum,
• Natural History Museum,
• The Geoffrey Museum, which will give visitors a visual representation of the life of Londoners in different eras.

The Museum of Childhood in London, on the one hand, is similar to other London museums, and on the other hand, it is completely different, since it is at the same time a museum about childhood and a museum created specifically for children.

And it should be noted that such an unusual and educational story about world children’s culture is primarily addressed not to tourists, but to young children, who in essence are the bearers of the so-called “culture of childhood.”

The Museum of Childhood is actually a branch of the famous Victoria and Albert Museum, and although it is a little more modest, it brings no less cultural benefits and joy not only to adults, but especially to children.

London is a large and outstanding city in the world, the capital of Great Britain. It attracts millions of tourists every year. London's best museums introduce visitors to world history and culture. The pride of the country and Europe is the historical and archaeological British Museum. Art lovers will enjoy masterpieces of world painting in numerous art galleries. Children will enjoy visiting the Museum of Childhood and the Harry Potter Museum.

British museum

The museum opened in 1753 and is the main historical and archaeological museum in Great Britain. The exhibition consists of several sections. Each part is devoted to specific geographical areas: Ancient Egypt and Nubia, the Ancient East, East and South Asia, Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece, Great Britain and European countries. Each section contains archaeological gems (eg Rosetta Stone, Warren Cup, Ringlemere Cup). The museum contains an extensive collection of graphics and engravings, including works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rembrandt.

Natural History Museum

The largest museum in the city, founded in 1881. Includes a collection of collections on botany, mineralogy, paleontology, zoology. The funds store about 150 million exhibits. The museum is best known for its collection of dinosaur skeletons, including a 26-meter diplodocus, a mechanical tyrannosaurus and other models. They have been recreated and stand in the main hall. The Natural History Museum houses an interesting collection of meteorites and minerals.

Science Museum

The museum was founded in 1857 and is one of three major museums opened during the Victorian era. Each room is dedicated to a specific topic, contains technical devices, and tells in detail the history of the development of the scientific field. The eastern hall displays various engines and steam engines, while the aviation hall displays aircraft from paragliders to full-size airplanes. In the information age hall there are communications equipment: telephones, radios, video cameras.

National Gallery

Large art museum in London. It houses two thousand canvases of Western European painting, written from the 12th to the beginning of the 20th century. The museum opened in 1824 and is the third most visited gallery in the world. 6 million people visit it annually. The works of art are displayed in chronological order. Works by Diego Velazquez, Titian, Sandro Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Rembrandt, Van Gogh are kept.

Tate Modern Gallery

The gallery opened in 2000 and is one of the ten most visited art museums in the world. Occupies the building of a former power plant. Artworks created since the 1900s are on display here. The museum's collection is unique. Collected paintings by Malevich, Picasso, Matisse, Claude Monet. Sculptures, posters, and installations are exhibited. The exhibits were created in different genres: cubism, impressionism, sur-realism, pop art.

Saatchi Gallery

This is a museum of modern art. It was founded in 1985 by Charles Saatchi. The exhibition occupies former military barracks. There are outrageous and shocking collections on display here that cause controversy among critics. The most famous works are art objects by Damian Hirst and Marc Quinn. Among them were animal corpses treated with formaldehyde and heads cast from frozen blood.

Victoria and Albert Museum

It is the largest museum in the world dedicated to design and decorative arts. It was opened in 1852. It features exhibits spanning the last 3,000 years. The museum's collection is considered unsurpassed in its diversity. The museum exhibits paintings (the most famous is “View of Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Garden” by Constable), sculptures, objects of decorative and applied art from different times and peoples, textiles, and ceramics. Home to the largest collection of early British photography.

National Portrait Gallery

It was founded in 1856 and is the world's first portrait gallery. The museum occupies a neo-Renaissance building in the historical center of London. It contains oil portraits, miniatures, busts, drawings of prominent London and British figures, politicians, artists, and writers. The collection of portraits begins with the Tudor era, a royal dynasty that ruled from the 15th to early 17th centuries.

Design Museum

This is a unique museum that has no analogues in the world. The exhibition is dedicated to different areas of design of clothes and shoes, furniture, cars, equipment, even office technical devices and product packaging. The museum also has a section telling about the history of the development of design art; thematic lectures and seminars are held.

Geoffrey Museum

It is also called the “house museum”. It is dedicated to the interiors of houses. The museum has restored the interior of rooms from different eras, belonging to people of all classes. The room of a 16th century merchant is adjacent to the bedroom of a poor nobleman from the 17th century. Victorian rooms and hippie studios have been recreated. In each room, the interior of a certain period has been completely restored: wallpaper, ceiling, furniture, decoration.

Wallace Collection

The art collection was amassed by Richard Wallace and his father. Then the exhibition along with the house was donated to London. The museum has 25 galleries. They contain paintings, sculpture, weapons, porcelain, furniture, and works of decorative and applied art. Most of the paintings date from the 18th century. The furniture collection dates back to the 17th – 18th centuries. The exhibition of porcelain and weapons dates back to the Middle Ages.

Wellington Museum

The museum occupies one of the finest mansions in London. It exhibits a collection of artistic paintings: paintings by Goya, Rubens, Velazquez. There is an exhibition of porcelain, silver, jewelry, and furniture. Fans of military history will be impressed by the collection of trophies, banners and weapons from different eras.

Museum of London

The museum was founded in 1976. It is dedicated to the history and main milestones of London's development. There is a collection of sights related to the history of the city from antiquity to the present day. The pride of the museum is the carriage of the Lord Mayor of the city. The exhibition is organized in chronological order. Each hall substantively demonstrates a certain era of development, both of the city itself and its inhabitants.

Bank of England Museum

The first and central bank of Great Britain houses a museum dedicated to banking. The exhibition is arranged in chronological order. The museum displays bars of precious metals (gold and silver), jewelry and valuables from different countries and peoples, safes and other exhibits for storage. The history of the bank itself and modern technologies of its work are told.

Madame Tussauds London

The wax museum was created in 1835 and has gained worldwide fame. It was founded by the sculptor Marie Tussaud. Today, 19 branches of the museum are open around the world. There are about 1,000 wax figures on display in the London Museum. There are statues of prominent world political figures, actors and actresses, musicians, writers, athletes and other famous public figures.

Cutty Sark Museum Ship

This is a tea clipper built in 1869. It was intended to transport tea to Britain from China. This is the only clipper ship that has survived to this day. In the mid-twentieth century, the Cutty Sark was turned into a museum; it sits in dry dock in the Greenwich area. It recreates the interior of a 19th century tea clipper; the ship has been restored and restored to its original appearance.

Klink Prison Museum

Clink Prison was considered one of the most terrifying prisons in London. The first cells appeared in the 12th century, at first heretics were imprisoned in them, then it expanded and accepted different prisoners. The prison itself burned down in a fire in the 18th century. The cells in the museum have been restored and contain instruments of torture. In place of the prisoners are wax figures. The surroundings are supported by musical accompaniment, and quiet groans are heard in the museum.

Sherlock Holmes Museum

The exhibition is dedicated to Sherlock Holmes, the legendary detective and literary hero of Arthur Conan Doyle. It was opened in 1990 on Baker Street. The interior of the apartment is completely recreated based on the writer’s works. There is the famous detective's violin, a hat, a Turkish slipper with tobacco and other household items. On one of the floors there are wax figures of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and famous heroes of the work.

Charles Dickens House Museum

Charles Dickens lived in this house with his wife Catherine from 1837 to 1839. This is the only surviving home of the great writer who created Oliver Twist and The Pickwick Papers. The house has recreated the authentic atmosphere of the 19th century. The second floor is occupied by the writer’s creative studio with Dickens’s desk and chair; his personal belongings, writings, letters, and paintings are stored.

Freud Museum

Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna left Vienna for London in 1938 due to Nazi persecution. He settled in a small house where he lived for the last year of his life. Freud suffered from terminal cancer of the jaw and suffered from severe pain. Here he was injected with a lethal dose of morphine. All the furniture and other household items have been preserved in the house (they were transported by Freud from Vienna). The psychoanalyst's office has been recreated, and a library is in operation.

Westminster Abbey Museum

Westminster Abbey is the main cathedral of the country, it is also called St. Peter's Church. There is an interesting museum, small in size, located underground. It tells the story of Westminster Abbey. Here are thrones on which kings were crowned, funerary statues of members of the royal family, remains of sculptures and frescoes that once adorned the main church of the country.

Churchill Museum

The museum is located in an underground bunker under the Ministry of Finance. Its creation combined a strict scientific approach and new digital technologies. The basis of the museum is an interactive table 15 meters long. It contains 5 folders telling in detail about Churchill’s 90-year life. The folders are collected in chronological order, and you can study any stage of the politician's life.

Scotland Yard Crime Museum

This museum dedicated to police work was opened in 1877. It is sometimes called the "Black Museum". It talks about the activities of the police service and major criminal cases. There is scant material about Jack the Ripper (he was never caught). There are death masks of executed criminals and personal belongings of prisoners.

Imperial War Museum

The museum was founded in 1917. Dedicated to the military actions of the twentieth century: the First and Second World Wars. It aims to show the horrors of war. Weapons and artillery from different years are exhibited here: guns, tanks, submarines, aircraft, machine guns, pistols and other types of cold steel and firearms. There is an archive of military photographs and documents, and personal belongings of soldiers and officers are stored. There is a public library at the museum.

National Maritime Museum

The museum was founded in 1934. Stores over two million exhibits related to navigation. The collection consists of paintings related to navigation and portraits of famous “sea” Englishmen, including images of Cook and Nelson. Moreover, there are more portraits than in the national portrait gallery. The museum contains models of ships, even cut-away models, explaining the structure of the ship, uniforms and weapons (daggers, axes) of naval officers and sailors, and preserved tickets of Titanic passengers.

Royal Air Force Museum

The museum was founded in 1972. It tells the history of aviation and is located at the former Hendon airfield. The exhibition is shown in five exhibition halls. Among them: milestones in the history of flight, a hall dedicated to bombers, and a hall for the Battle of Britain. There is also a hall with historical hangars and the Graham-White Exhibition Plant. Famous exhibits: bombers from the Second World War.

Public Transport Museum

The museum was founded in 1980 and tells the story of the history of public transport in London. It displays different types of transport. The first floor is organizational, there is a cash desk, shops, and cafes. The second floor of the museum is dedicated to the history of the metro, it tells how the subway began to be built, and the first metro diagrams are presented. The third floor deals with ground transportation from horse-drawn carriages to world-famous double-decker buses.

Cupids of London Museum

This museum is dedicated to love, romantic and sexual relationships, and erotica. It was opened in 2007. Occupies nine halls in which technical innovations of sexual culture are exhibited, films and videos about love and erotica are played on touch screens. The museum houses paintings, posters, canvases and interactive exhibits that you can touch with your hands.

Museum of Horror

Despite the name, the museum is of an entertaining nature. It features exciting rides to ride, long, dark corridors full of surprises. Real actors play the roles of vampires, maniacs, and villains. Visitors are invited to meet Jack the Ripper and experience the horrors of medieval torture.

Tea and Coffee Museum

The museum was founded in 1992 by Edward Brahm. It is dedicated to the history of coffee and tea. The exhibition includes 1000 attributes of the tea and coffee ceremony. Various teapots, tea labels and advertisements, coffee processing machines and coffee sets are on display. The Russian tea tradition is represented by the samovar, sushki and bagels. Chinese - with porcelain dishes, Japanese - with bowls and whisks, whisking tea leaves.

Harry Potter Museum

A museum dedicated to Harry Potter opened in 2012. Since then, fans of the character from all over the world have come here. The Hogwarts dining room, Dumbledore's office, the Three Kingdoms confectionery, and the Weasley family's hut have been recreated. There is a model of the Hogwarts Express train, a collection of magic wands and brooms. There are wax figures of students, professors and other characters from the book everywhere.

Museum of Childhood

This is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition is based on toys from different times and peoples, dolls, children's board games, doll clothes, furniture and other exhibits related to childhood and toys. There is a gallery of mobile toys and construction sets, a creativity gallery, and art projects of young artists and inventors. The museum hosts temporary thematic exhibitions.

Pollock Toy Museum

The museum is named after the famous 19th century puppeteer. Opened in 1956, the establishment houses a rich collection of dolls made in different countries of the world. There are large and small toys, dolls made of cloth and porcelain, wood and other materials. The museum also displays toys for boys - a variety of soldiers and horses. One of the floors is occupied by a large collection of Teddy bears.