18 Stafford Terrace
London
18 Stafford Terrace is a remarkably preserved Victorian townhouse that offers an authentic glimpse into middle-class life during the late 19th century. Built…
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194 museums
575 Wandsworth Road (Khadambi Asalache House)
Clapham
An ordinary south London terraced house transformed inside by decades of hand-carved fretwork by poet and woodcarver Khadambi Asalache
Apsley House
London
Apsley House, known as 'Number One, London' due to its prestigious address at the entrance to the capital, was the London residence of Arthur Wellesley, 1st…
Battle of Britain Bunker
London
The underground Fighter Command Operations Room that helped win the Battle of Britain
Benjamin Franklin House
London
Benjamin Franklin House is the world's only remaining home of Benjamin Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers and the greatest statesman-scientist of his…
Bethlem Museum of the Mind
London
Eight hundred years of mental health history — patient art, archive, and the extraordinary story of Bethlem Royal Hospital
Black Cultural Archives
London
The UK's national heritage centre for Black British history, on Windrush Square in Brixton
Boston Manor House
London
A restored Jacobean manor house with West London's finest surviving plaster ceilings
Bow Street Museum of Crime and Justice
London
Two centuries of policing and justice, in the former Bow Street police station and magistrates' court
British Optical Association Museum
London
World's finest collection of spectacles and optical instruments
British Red Cross Museum and Archives
London
The history of British humanitarianism — from Solferino to today
Brixton Windmill
London
A working 1816 windmill improbably surviving amid the streets of inner-city Brixton
Bromley Museum at Bromley Historic Collections
Bromley
Bromley's museum collection — archaeology and local history displayed via rotating exhibits across the borough
Brunei Gallery, SOAS
London
Changing Exhibitions on the Art and Culture of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection
London
The creative archive of one of the world's leading art schools
Chelsea Physic Garden
London
London's oldest botanic garden, growing medicine and history since 1673
Chiswick House and Gardens
London
Chiswick House is widely regarded as the finest neo-Palladian villa in England, a dazzling testament to the vision of Richard Boyle, the third Earl of…
Crofton Roman Villa
London
A rare surviving Roman villa bath suite on the edge of Orpington, currently closed for refurbishment
Danson House
London
A restored Georgian Palladian villa by Robert Taylor, rescued from near-total loss
Eastbury Manor House
Barking
A remarkably intact Elizabethan merchant's house surviving amid suburban Barking, east London
Fashion and Textile Museum
London
Contemporary fashion and textile design in Zandra Rhodes' vibrant museum
Fenton House and Garden
London
Late Stuart merchant's house with world-class keyboard instruments and porcelain
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
London
David Garrick's 1756 riverside shrine to Shakespeare on the Thames at Hampton
Golden Hinde II
London
The Golden Hinde II is a full-scale reconstruction of Sir Francis Drake's famous galleon that circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1580. This remarkable…
Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery
London
4,000+ textile and print objects, built on textile artist Constance Howard's teaching collection at Goldsmiths
Hall Place and Gardens
Bexley
A Tudor and Jacobean manor house with magnificent formal gardens on the banks of the River Cray
Ham House
Richmond
The finest surviving Restoration interior in England — Duchess of Lauderdale's 17th-century palace on the Thames
Harrow Museum and Heritage Centre
Harrow
A medieval moated manor in suburban London — one of Greater London's most unexpected heritage treasures
Havering Museum
Romford
Local history of a London borough with royal medieval roots — free admission
Headstone Manor & Museum
London
A fourteenth-century moated manor house in Harrow — medieval heritage and local history in one of Middlesex's most historic settings
Heath Robinson Museum
Pinner
The wonderfully complicated world of Britain's best-loved comic illustrator
Historic Croydon Airport
London
Britain's first international airport, the birthplace of air traffic control and the word mayday
Imperial War Museum
London
Stories of people who have lived, fought and died in conflicts since 1914
Jewel Tower
Westminster
A medieval royal treasury at the heart of Westminster — one of only three buildings surviving from the original Palace of Westminster
Kingston Museum
Kingston upon Thames
Saxon coronations, Muybridge's motion photography, and Kingston's story
Kirkaldy Testing Museum
London
David Kirkaldy's 1874 materials testing works, with his enormous hydraulic testing machine still in place
Little Holland House
Carshalton
One man's hand-made masterpiece — Arts and Crafts devotion in a Carshalton cottage
London Mithraeum
London
A 3rd-century Roman temple to Mithras, preserved in situ beneath Bloomberg's London HQ
Marble Hill House
London
Marble Hill House is one of the most perfectly proportioned Palladian villas in England, built between 1724 and 1729 for Henrietta Howard, Mistress of the…
Markfield Beam Engine and Museum
Tottenham
A Victorian pumping engine in its original Gothic engine house — steamed on the last Sunday of each month
Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising
London
A nostalgic journey through 150 years of consumer brands and advertising
Museum of Comedy
London
British comedy history and live stand-up together in a Bloomsbury church undercroft
Museum of Croydon
Croydon
Surrey Street market to Croydon Airport — two thousand years of South London history
Museum of Richmond
Richmond
Tudor palaces, royal parks and riverside splendour — the story of Richmond upon Thames
Museum of the Order of St John
London
900 years of history from Crusader knights to St John Ambulance
Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
London
The History of British Pharmacy, From Apothecary to Profession
Old Royal Naval College
London
Christopher Wren's Baroque masterpiece and Britain's 'Sistine Chapel' in Maritime Greenwich
Orleans House Gallery
Twickenham
Richmond's riverside art gallery in a magnificent baroque house surrounded by woodland gardens
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
London
One of the world's greatest collections of Egyptian archaeology
Pitzhanger Manor
London
Sir John Soane's own experimental country retreat, now a historic house and contemporary art gallery
Pollocks Toy Museum
London
Pollocks Toy Museum is a treasure trove of childhood nostalgia and toy history, housed in two cramped, atmospheric Victorian townhouses in Fitzrovia. Named…
Pope's Grotto
Twickenham
Alexander Pope's mineral-encrusted grotto, the surviving fragment of his Twickenham villa
Rainham Hall
London
A Queen Anne merchant's house built on Thames trade, cared for by the National Trust
Ranger's House - The Wernher Collection
London
Georgian villa housing an extraordinary art collection
Red House
London
Red House in Bexleyheath, south-east London, is one of the most important buildings in the history of art and design — the house that William Morris built for…
RIBA Collections (Library, Drawings and Photographs Collections)
London
One of the world's great architectural research collections — drawings, photographs and archives at RIBA's Portland Place headquarters
Royal Academy of Music Museum
London
Rare instruments and musical treasures at Britain's oldest conservatoire
Royal Armouries at the Tower of London
London
The world's oldest museum display of royal arms and armour
Royal College of Nursing Library and Heritage Centre
London
The Royal College of Nursing's library and archive, preserving over a century of nursing professional history
Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum
London
275 years of medical innovation and compassionate care
Syon House
London
Robert Adam's neoclassical masterpiece on the Thames, home to the Percy family since 1594
Society of Antiquaries of London
London
England's Senior Learned Society for the Study of Antiquities, Since 1707
Southside House
London
A 'time capsule' family house on Wimbledon Common, unchanged across three centuries
Sutton House
Hackney
East London's oldest surviving house — five centuries of history in the heart of Hackney
The Cinema Museum
London
The Cinema Museum is a unique institution dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of cinema-going in Britain, housed appropriately in the former…
The Crossness Engines
Bexley
Bazalgette's ornate Victorian sewage pumping cathedral, home to some of Britain's largest surviving beam engines
The Fusilier Museum London
London
Three centuries of fusilier courage from the Tower to the front line
The Museum of Methodism and John Wesley's House
London
Discover the home and legacy of Methodism's founder
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
London
Britain's oldest surviving operating theatre - Victorian surgery revealed
The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
London
The principal Polish military and government-in-exile collection outside Poland
The Twickenham Museum
Twickenham
The local history of Twickenham, Whitton, Teddington and the Hamptons, in a listed house on the riverside
Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum
London
A Victorian waterworks engine house of 1885, now a volunteer-run industrial and transport museum
Wandle Industrial Museum
Mitcham
The industries and people of the River Wandle, in Mitcham's Victorian Vestry Hall annexe
Whitewebbs Museum of Transport
London
A volunteer-run collection of vintage vehicles and model railways at Whitewebbs, Enfield
World Rugby Museum
Twickenham
The definitive museum of rugby union, at the home of English rugby since 1996
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