There are 264 museums, art galleries, educational centres, stately homes and similar attractions in the Greater London area. Major attractions are indicated in bold.
| Museum name |
Nearest Station |
Website |
| Africa Centre |
Covent Garden |
Click |
| Age Exchange Reminiscence Centre |
Blackheath |
Click |
| Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
|
Paddington |
Click |
| Alfred Dunhill Collection
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| All Hallows by The Tower
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Tower Hill |
Click |
| Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
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Regent's Park |
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| Arsenal Football Club Museum
|
Arsenal |
Click |
| Baden Powell House
|
Gloucester Road |
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| Bank of England Museum
|
Bank |
Click |
| Banqueting House
|
Charring Cross |
Click |
| Barbican Art Gallery
|
Barbican |
Click |
| Barnet Museum
|
High Barnet |
Click |
| Benjamin Franklin House
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Charing Cross |
Click |
| Ben Uri Gallery
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Kilburn Park |
Click |
| Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons Museum
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Sloane Square |
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| Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum
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Edden Park (Kent) |
Click |
| Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood
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Bethnal Green |
Click |
| Bexley Museum at Hall Palace
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Bexley (BR) |
Click |
| Black Cultural Archive and Museum
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Kennington |
Click |
| Boston Manor House
|
Boston Manor |
Click |
| Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum
|
London Bridge |
Click |
| The Britain At War Experience
|
London Bridge |
Click |
| British Library
|
St Pancras |
Click |
| British Museum
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Tottenham Court |
Click |
| British Optical Association Museum
|
Charing Cross |
Click |
| British Red Cross Museum and Archives
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Moorgate |
Click |
| Bromley Museum
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Click |
| Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail
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Click |
| Bruce Castle Museum
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Bruce Grove Rail Station |
Click |
| Brunel Museum
|
Canada Water Rail Station |
Click |
| Building Centre
|
Goodge Street |
Click |
| Burgh House (Hampstead Museum)
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Hampstead |
Click |
| Cabinet War Rooms
|
Westminster |
Click |
| Canada House Gallery
|
Charing Cross |
Click |
| Carlyle's House
|
South Kensington |
Click |
| Cartoon Art Trust
|
Tottenham Court Road |
Click |
| Chartered Insurance Institute Museum
|
Moorgate |
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| Chelsea Physic Garden
|
Sloane Square |
Click |
| Children's Discovery Centre
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Click |
| Chiswick House & Gardens
|
Chiswick Rail Station |
Click |
| Clarence House
|
Green Park |
Click |
| Clink Prison Museum
|
London Bridge |
Click |
| Clock Museum, Guildhall
|
Bank |
Click |
| College of Arms
|
Mansion House |
Click |
| Couper Collection
|
Sloane Square |
Click |
| Courtauld Gallery (at Somerset House)
|
Temple |
Click |
| Crofton Roman Villa
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Orpington Rail Station |
Click |
| Crossness Engines
|
Belvedere Rail Station |
Click |
| Crown Jewels (at the Tower of London)
|
Tower Hill |
Click |
| Croydon Clocktower
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| Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
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| Crystal Palace Museum
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| Cuming Museum
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| Cutty Sark Museum
|
Maze Hill |
Click |
| Dali Universe
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| De Morgan Foundation
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| Design Museum
|
Tower Hill |
Click |
| Dickens House Museum
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| Museum in Docklands
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| Dr Johnson's House
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| Domestic Design and Architecture
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| Dorich House
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| Drapers’ Company
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| Dulwich Picture Gallery
|
West Dulwich |
Click |
| East Ham Nature Reserve
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| Eastside Community Heritage
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| Eltham Palace
|
Eltham |
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| Erith Museum
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| Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
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| FA Premier League Hall of Fame
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| Fan Museum
|
Greenwich |
Click |
| Farringdon Collection (London)
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| Fashion Textile Museum
|
London Bridge |
Click |
| Fenton House
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| Firepower! Royal Artillery Museum
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| Florence Nightingale Museum (St Thomas' Hospital)
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Waterloo |
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| Forty Hall Museum
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| Foundling Museum
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| Freemasonry Museum
|
Covent Garden |
Click |
| Freud Museum
|
Finchley Road |
Click |
| Fulham Palace
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| Fuller's Griffin Brewery
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| Galton Collection
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| Garden History
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| Garricks Temple
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| Geffrye Museum
|
Old Street |
Click |
| Geomatic Engineering Collection
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| Gilbert Collection of Decorative Arts (at Somerset House)
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| Girl Guide Museum
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| Golden Hinde Living History Museum
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| Grange Museum of Community History
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| Grant Museum (Zoology and Comparative Anatomy)
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| Great Ormond St Hospital for Children Museum
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| Greenwich Heritage Centre
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| Guards' Museum
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| Guildhall Art Gallery
|
Bank |
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| Guildhall Library
|
Bank |
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| Gunnersbury Park Museum
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| Hackney Museum
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| Ham House
|
Richmond |
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| Hampton Court Palace
|
Hampton Court |
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| Handel House Museum
|
Bond St |
Click |
| Harrow Museum Heritage Centre
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| Harrow School Museum
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| Hermitage Rooms (at Somerset House)
|
Temple |
Click |
| Hayward Gallery
|
Waterloo |
Click |
| HMS Belfast
|
London Bridge |
Click |
| Hogarth's House
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| Honeywood Heritage Centre
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| Honourable Artillery Company Museum
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| Horniman Museum
|
Forest Hill |
Click |
| House Mill Museum
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| House of Detention
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| Museum of Immigration and Diversity
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| Imperial War Museum
|
Lambeth |
Click |
| Impossible Microworld
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| Inns of Court and City Yeomanry Museum
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| Institute of Archaeology
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| Island History Trust
|
Island Gardens |
Click |
| Islington Museum
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| Jewel Tower
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Westminster |
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| Jewish Military Museum and Memorial Room
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| Jewish Museum - Camden
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Camden Town |
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| Jewish Museum - Finchley
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| Keats' House
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Hampstead |
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| Kennel Club Art Gallery
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| Kensingston Palace & Gardens
|
High St Kensington |
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| Kenwood House (the "Iveagh Bequest")
|
Archway |
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| Kew Bridge Steam Museum
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| Kew Gardens and Museums
|
Kew Gardens |
Click |
| Kingston Museum
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| Kew Transport Museum
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| Kirkaldy Testing Museum
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| Lifetimes Museum
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| Leighton House Museum
|
Holland Park |
Click |
| Linnean Society of London
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| Linley Sambourne House
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| Little Holland House
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| Livesey Museum for Children
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| London Aquarium
|
Waterloo |
Click |
| London Eye
|
Waterloo |
Click |
| Museum of London
|
Barbican |
Click |
| London Canal Museum
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| London Dungeon
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London Bridge |
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| London Fire Brigade Museum
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| London Motorcycle Museum
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| London Sewing Machine Museum
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| London Silver Vaults
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| London Toy and Model Museum
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| London's Transport Museum
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Click |
| London Zoo
|
Camden Town |
Click |
| Lothbury Gallery, Time Present and Time Past
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| Madame Tussaud's London
|
Baker St |
Click |
| Centre for Magic Arts
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| Manor Park Museum
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| Marble Hill House
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| Maritime Trusts Museum
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| Markfield Beam Engine and Museum
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| Marx Memorial Library
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| MCC Museum, Lord's cricket ground
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St John's Wood |
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| Merton Heritage Centre
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| Michael Faraday Museum (Royal Institution)
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| Musical Museum
|
Gunnersbury |
Click |
| National Army Museum
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| National Gallery
|
Charring Cross |
Click |
| National Maritime Museum
|
Maze Hill (Greenwich) |
Click |
| National Portrait Gallery
|
Charring Cross |
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| Natural History Museum
|
South Kensington |
Click |
| North Woolwich Old Station Museum
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| Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret
|
London Bridge |
Click |
| Old Royal Naval College
|
Maze Hill (Greenwich) |
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| Order of Saint John
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| Orleans House Gallery
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| Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
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| Peter Pan Gallery (Gt Ormond St Hospital)
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| Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
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| Pitshanger Manor Museum
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| Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
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| Prince Henry's Room
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| Postal Heritage Trust
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| Prudential Building Museum
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| Public Record Office
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| Pumphouse and Rotherhithe Heritage Museum
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| Puppet Centre Trust
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| Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge
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| Queen's Gallery (at Buckingham Palace)
|
Victoria |
Click |
| Queen's House
|
Maze Hill (Greenwich) |
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| Museum of Richmond
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| Ragged School Museum
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Click |
| Ranger's House (Wernher Collection)
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| Redbridge Museum
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| Riesco Gallery
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| Rose Theatre Exhibition
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| Royal Academy of Arts
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| Royal Air Force Museum
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| Royal College of Music Museums
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| Royal College of Physicians
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| Royal Fusiliers Museum
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| Royal Hospital Chelsea
|
Sloane Square |
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| RIBA Drawings Collection
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| Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum
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| Royal Mews (at Buckingham Palace)
|
Victoria |
Click |
| Royal Military School of Music
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| Royal Mint Sovereign Gallery
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| Royal Observatory
|
Maze Hill (Greenwich) |
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| Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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| Royal Philatelic Collection
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| Museum of Rugby
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| St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum
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Click |
| St Brides Church Crypt Museum
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| St John's Ambulance Museum
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| St Paul's Cathedral Crypt Museum
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| Science Museum
|
South Kensington |
Click |
| Sherlock Holmes Museum
|
Baker St |
Click |
| Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition
|
London Bridge |
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| Sir John Soane's Museum
|
Holborn |
Click |
| Smythson Stationery Museum
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| Society of Antiquaries
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| Somerset House
|
Temple |
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| South London Gallery
|
Oval |
Click |
| Southside House
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| Spencer House
|
Green Park |
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| Start Gallery
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| Stephens Collection
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| Strang Print Room - UCL
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| Sutton House
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| Syon House
|
Syon Lane |
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| Tate Britain
|
Pimlico |
Click |
| Tate Modern
|
Black Friars |
Click |
| Theatre Museum
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| Three Mills
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| Tower Bridge Experience
|
Tower Hill |
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| Tower Hill Pageant
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| Tower of London
|
Tower Hill |
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| Twinings Museum
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| Two Willow Road
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| Type Museum
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| UCL Arts Collections
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| UCL Geological Sciences Collections
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| Valence House Museum
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| Vestry House Museum
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| Veterinary Museum
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| Victoria and Albert Museum
|
South Kensington |
Click |
| Vinopolis, City of Wine
|
London Bridge |
Click |
| Wallace Collection
|
Bond St |
Click |
| Wandle Industrial Museum
|
Morden |
Click |
| Wandsworth Museum
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| Wellcome Library
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| Wellcome Museums of Anatomy and Pathology
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| Wellington Arch
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| Wellington Museum (Aspley House)
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| Wesley's Chapel and Museum of Methodism
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| West Ham United Football Club Museum
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| Westminster Abbey Museums
|
Westminster |
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| Westminster Dragoons Museum
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| Whitehall Cheam
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| Whitewebbs Museum of Transport
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| William Morris Gallery
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| William Morris Society
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| Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
|
Wimbledon |
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| Wimbledon Society Museum of Local History
|
Wimbledon |
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| Wimbledon Windmill Museum
|
Wimbledon |
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| Women's Library
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| Young's Ram Brewery |
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