• London's Best Museums & Galleries

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    Tate Modern


    Power Station / Modern Art Mecca
    53 Bankside, SE1 9TG
    sun-thu: 10:00-18:00
    fri-sat: 10:00-22:00
    Free
    Tube: Southwark, London Bridge
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    Design Museum


    Contemporary Design Mecca
    Shad Thames, Tower Bridge South, SE1 2YD
    7 Days: 10:00-17:15
    £8.50. £6.50 conc. £5 student
    Tube: London Bridge, Tower Hill
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    V&A


    World's greatest art&design museum
    Cromwell Road, Kensington, SW7 2RL
    sun-thu: 10:00-17:45
    fri: 10:00-22:00
    sat: 10:00-17:45
    Free
    Tube: South Kensington
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    The British Museum


    7m objects from human history
    Great Russell St, Holborn, WC1B 3DG
    7 Days: 10:00-17:30
    Free
    Tube: Totenham Crt Rd, Holborn
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    Science Museum


    300,000 items, some famous
    Exhibition Rd, Kensington, SW7 2DD
    7 Days: 10:00-18:00
    Free
    Tube: South Kensington
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    Natural History Museum


    70m life & earth science specimens
    Cromwell Rd, Kensington, SW7 5BD
    7 Days: 10:00-17:50
    Free
    Tube: South Kensington
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    Sir John Soane's Museum


    His former house – now Architecture & antiquities museum
    13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, WC2A 3BP
    tue-sat: 10:00-17:00
    Free
    Tube: Holborn
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    Imperial War Museum


    Excellent, Interactive. WWI-Present
    Lambeth Rd, SE1 6HZ
    7 Days: 10:00-18:00
    Free
    Tube: Waterloo, Lambeth North
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    Museum of London


    London's urban history
    150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN
    sun: 10:00-18:00
    mon-fri: 09:15-18:00
    sat: 10:00-18:00
    Booking: 020 7001 9844
    Tube: Barbican, St Pauls
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    National Gallery


    West Euro painting 13-19th centuries
    Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN
    sun-thu: 10:00-18:00
    fri: 10:00-21:00
    sat: 10:00-18:00
    Free
    Tube: Leicester Square, Charring Cross
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    Geffrye Museum


    English home interiors, 1600-now
    136 Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch, E2 8EA
    sun: 12:00-17:00
    tue-sat: 10:00-17:00
    Free
    Tube: Hoxton, Old Street
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    Tate Britain


    British Art since 1500
    Millbank, Westminster, SW1P 4RG
    7 Days: 10:00-18:00
    Free
    Tube: Pimlico
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    Whitechapel Gallery


    Great art to the people since 1901
    77-82 Whitechapel High St, E1 7QX
    sun: 11:00-18:00
    tue-wed: 11:00-18:00
    thu: 11:00-21:00
    fri-sat: 11:00-18:00
    Free
    Tube: Aldgate East, Liverpool St
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    Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)


    UK’s original, not-for-profit, multi-disciplinary arts centre
    The Mall, SW1Y 5AH
    sun: 12:00-21:00
    wed: 12:00-23:00
    thu-sat: 12:00-01:00
    Entry Free
    Tube: Piccadilly Circus, Charring Cross
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    National Portrait Gallery


    Portraits of Famous Britons
    St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE
    sun-wed: 10:00-18:00
    thu-fri: 10:00-21:00
    sat: 10:00-18:00
    Free
    Tube: Leicester Square, Charring Cross
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    Wellcome Collection


    An exciting destination for explorers of the human condition
    183 Euston Rd, NW1 2BE
    sun: 11:00-18:00
    tue-wed: 10:00-18:00
    thu: 10:00-22:00
    fri-sat: 10:00-18:00
    Free
    Tube: Euston, Euston Square
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    Barbican Centre


    The largest multi-arts centre in Europe; art, film, music, theatre, dance & education
    Barbican Centre, Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
    sun: 11:00-23:00
    mon-sat: 08:00-23:00
    Tube: Barbican, Moorgate
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    Southbank Centre


    Gallery, Exhibition & Performance space (gallery opening times)
    Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX
    7 Days: 10:00-18:00
    Tube: Waterloo, Embankment
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