British Museum
Britain’s foremost museum, featuring a great number of national treasures from nations across the globe.
London Highlights
Tower of London
A secure fortress, royal palace and infamous prison, home to the Crown Jewels, properly guarded by Yeoman Warders.
Tower Bridge
London’s iconic bridge.
V&A Museum
Museum of art & design.
Tate Britain
500 years of British art from from the Pre-Raphaelites to the present.
National Gallery
Western European paintings from the 13th to the 19th century.
Science Museum
The museum that holds Stephenson’s Rocket & Babbage’s Difference Engine #2.
London Transport Museum
One of the coolest public transport museums in Europe.
Imperial War Museum
Exploring military conflict from World War I to the present day.
Wallace Collection
Art museum featuring an awesome array of art, arms & armour.
Further Recommendations
Apsley House
The Duke of Wellington’s Georgian London home.
Bank of England Museum
Museum about money, the economy, and the history of the Bank of England.
BFI Southbank
Film buffs will enjoy the British Film Institute’s mediatheque.
British Library
From Magna Carta & Gutenberg’s Bible, to the music of the Beatles.
Buckingham Palace
Open to the public every summer.
Changing the Guard
45 minutes of British pageantry.
Charles Dickens Museum
Chiswick House & Gardens
Christys
Buy your bowler hat here.
Churchill War Rooms
The secret underground headquarters where the course of World War II was determined.
Courtauld Gallery
Art museum best known for its collection of impressionist & post-impressionist paintings.
Covent Garden
Cutty Sark
One of the fastest tea clippers ever built.
Design Museum
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Old Masters.
Eltham Palace & Gardens
Florence Nightingale Museum
Fortnum & Mason
For afternoon tea & knickerbocker glory.
Foundling Museum
Art museum.
Guildhall Art Gallery
Ham House & Garden
17th-century house recognized for its superb collection of paintings, furniture & textiles.
Harrods
Over-the-top department store with a great food hall.
Hayward Gallery
Brutalist contemporary art gallery.
HMS Belfast
Royal Navy Town-class cruiser, now a museum.
Horniman Museum & Gardens
Household Cavalry Museum
Museum dedicated to the King’s mounted bodyguards.
Hoxton Street Monster Supplies
Purveyor of quality goods as specified in the Monster Retailer’s Act of 1827, Clause 14, Subsection 5, Revision (b).
Hyde Park
Jewish Museum London
Kensington Gardens
Kensington Palace
Kenwood House
Kew Gardens
One of the most extensive & important botanical gardens in the world.
Kew Palace
King George III & Queen Charlotte’s summer house in Kew Gardens.
The King’s Gallery
Leighton House Museum
Frederic Leighton’s purpose-built studio-house.
London Eye
One of the world’s largest Ferris wheels.
London Mithraeum
Ancient Roman temple of Mithras.
London Museum Docklands
Local history museum.
London Museum
Local history museum.
London Museum of Water & Steam
Museum dedicated to London's water supply & steam pumping engines.
London Wall
Defensive wall first built by the Romans around 200 AD.
Monument to the Great Fire of London
Monument to commemorate the Great Fire of 1666.
Museum of the Home
National Archives
National Army Museum
National Maritime Museum
2,000 years of maritime history.
National Portrait Gallery
Portraits from the 16th century to the present day.
National Theatre
Brutalist theatre by architect Denys Lasdun.
Natural History Museum
Newport Street Gallery
Damien Hirst’s private art collection.
№ 94 Bus
Discover some of London’s most popular neighbourhoods, all on a single bus route.
Orbit Slide
The world’s largest tunnel slide.
Palace of Westminster & Big Ben
Pembroke Lodge
Afternoon tea in the Butler’s Pantry.
Postal Museum
Queen’s House
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Richmond Park
Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Air Force Museum
Royal Albert Hall
Promming place.
Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace
Royal Observatory
Royal Opera House
Saatchi Gallery
Salvation Army Café 101
Soup, Soap & Salvation.
Sea Life London Aquarium
Selfridges & Co
The other London department store.
Shakespeare’s Globe
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Sky Garden
Somerset House
Statue of Winston Churchill
Other statues here: Nelson Mandela & Mahatma Ghandi.
St Bride Library
St Martin-in-the-Fields
House of God & Sir Neville Marriner.
St Paul’s Cathedral
Tate Modern
Modern & contemporary art from around the world.
Thames Barrier
Trellick Tower
Brutalist tower block by architect Ernő Goldfinger.
The View from The Shard
Waterstones Piccadilly
Europe’s largest bookshop.
Wellcome Collection
Museum connecting science, medicine, life, and art.
Wellington Arch
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Cathedral
Whitechapel Gallery
Contemporary art gallery.