The Top Ten Museums in London
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London's Museums are some of the top visitor attractions in the UK.
This a compendium of information about the top museums and galleries in London, based on monthly visitor numbers.
The Department for Culture Media and Sport publishes monthly and annual visitor numbers for museums and art galleries in the UK
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- #1 TATE LONDON (Tate Britain and Tate London Combined)
- The Art Guide - London
- #2 BRITISH MUSEUM
- #3 NATIONAL GALLERY
- The Art Museum
- #4 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (South Kensington)
- #5 SCIENCE MUSEUM (South Kensington)
- Top Art Galleries and Museums in London
- #6 VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
- #7 NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
- #8 NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
- #9 IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (London)
- #10 HORNIMAN MUSEUM
- Other Museums in London
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Tate Britain
The Home of British Art
#1 TATE LONDON (Tate Britain and Tate London Combined)
6,641,155 visitors in 2010/11
Tate London comprises Tate Britain and Tate Modern.
Tate Britain is the 'senior partner' having been around the longest plus it is the home of the Turner Collection. The museum focuses on British artists - past and present - and art by artists who lived in Britain for a long time. The Turner Prize exhibition is always located at Tate Britain.
However Tate Modern is more central and gets the larger number of visitors for its collections of international contemporary and modern art post 1900.
Both Museums are located right next to the River Thames and are connected by the Tate Riiver Boat. It's perfectly feasible to walk between the two - I've done it!
In 2010, the number of visitors were as follows:
* Tate Modern 5,061,172 (7% increase) 2009: 4,747,537 2008: 4,862,581
* Tate Britain 1,665,291 (11% increase) 2009: 1,501,837 2008: 1,618,309
BOTH MUSEUMS ARE FREE TO ENTER although there may be charge to enter temporary exhibitions.
- Tate: British and international modern and contemporary art
- Tate is a family of four art galleries housing the UK's collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art.
- Tate | Current Exhibitions
- Home Tate Britain Tate Modern Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives
- Tate Britain: British Art from 1500
- The home of British art from 1500 to the present day
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
020 7887 8888 | visiting.britain@tate.org.uk
Entry is free except for major exibitions
Open every day 10.00-17.50 | Exhibitions open 10.00-17.40 - Tate Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Tate Britain is the oldest art gallery in the Tate network - along with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.. It opened in 1897 and is located on Millbank in London (right across the river from MI6!). It houses a substantial collection of the works of J.M.W. Turner.
- Tate Modern: International modern and contemporary art
- International modern and contemporary art
Bankside, London SE1 9TG
020 7887 8888 | visiting.modern@tate.org.uk
Entry is free except for major exhibitions
Open Sunday - Thursday, 10.00-18.00 | Friday and Saturday, 10.00-22.00
Last admission into exhibitions 17.15 (Friday and Saturday 21.15) - Tate Modern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Tate Modern in London is Britain's national museum of international modern art. The Tate Modern collection comprises works of international modern and contemporary art dating from 1900 onwards. The Tate Collection is on display on levels three and five of the building, while level four houses large temporary exhibitions and a small exhibition space on level two houses work by contemporary artists.
- Transforming Tate Modern
- Since 2000, more than 30 million people have visited Tate Modern - it was designed for 1.8 million visitors annually, but has reached an average of 4.6 million visitors over recent years.
* Tate Modern is one of the UK's top three tourist attractions
* Two million people have taken part in Tate Modern's education programmes
* Tate Modern generates £100m in economic benefits to London annually
* Tate Modern has generated 4,000 new jobs, mostly in the Southwark area
* Time Out readers nominated Tate Modern as their favourite London building
* 60% of visitors to Tate Modern are under 35
A major transformation project to expand the museum and make best use of the site is currently underway - The Tate to Tate Boat
- The Tate Boat runs every forty minutes during gallery opening hours between Tate Britain and Tate Modern.
- Tate Modern's Oil Tanks to follow Turbine Hall in time for Olympics | Art and design | The Guardian
- 'World's most exciting new art space' to open in 2012 with Nicholas Serota confident of raising £215m needed
Tate Modern
from the Millenium Bridge (on a dull day in Autumn)
The Art Guide - London
by Sam Phillips
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I've got a copy of this guide and I think it's quite possibly the best one I've yet seen covering art in London. It has excellent maps of where all the museums and galleries are and include some which often don't get featured in some of the more "popular" guides.
It's also bang up to date having been published in April 2011
This is a fully illustrated guide to the riches of over 100 of London's museums and galleries. It focuses on the best in the city's collections to create an easily navigable, narrative history of art. The guides unique approach allows you to locate your favourite artist or style of art in any museum and follow this throughout the museums of London.
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#2 BRITISH MUSEUM
5,842,138 visitors in 2010
British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG
The British Museum is a national museum of global importance. Its collection of seven million objects provide a record of the art and artefacts of different human cultures across the world.
The Museum has a clear focus on its attraction for international visitors and people who live all over the world. It promotes the sharing of features of national identity across the world and ensures its celebrated collection can be accessed by and used by citizens of the world. It lends objects and shares expertise across the country to make a reality of universal cultural entitlement.
"In no other museum can the visitor see so clearly the history of what it is to be human."
The Museum has more or less continuously expanded and changed shape and configuration since it started! The museum was founded by Sir Hans Sloane in 1753. It moved to its current site in Great Russell Street in 1759. There have been major building programmes throughout its history. The British Library - which used to focus on the Round Reading Room - finally moved to a separate site in 1997.
The Reading Room at the British Museum has, in the past, been used by a large number of famous figures, including notably
* politicians and political thinkers Karl Marx, Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah;
* authors Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, and H. G. Wells.
5,465,861 visitors in 2008
5,569,981 visitors in 2009
5,842,138 visitors in 2010 (4.9% increase)
Entry to the British Museums is FREE. There is a charge to enter some temporary exhibitions.
- British Museum
- Welcome to the British Museum website. The Museum houses a vast collection of world art and artefacts and is free to all visitors. Search highlight objects of the collection and view current research projects. Find information about visiting, including admission and opening times, events and exhibit
- British Museum - What's on
- Exhibitions and events at the British Museum including Moctezuma, Revolution on Paper, Kingdom of Ife, Italian Renaissance Drawings and other touring exhibitions
- British Museum - Visiting
- The British Museum is free to all visitors and open every day from 10.00 - 17.30 and is open late on Thursdays and Fridays
- British Museum - Search the British Museum collection database online
- Search 1 million objects in the British Museum collection, from the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Americas, Ancient Egypt, Sudan, Asia, Prehistory, Europe, Greece, Rome, prints, drawings
- British Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects,[3] are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
- British Museum Reading Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library. In 1997, this function moved to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London, but the Reading Room remains in its original form inside the new British Museum.
The Great Court of the British Museum - and the original circular Reading Room
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The Great Court of the British Museum, with the new tessellated roof designed by Foster and Partners arching around the original, circular, Reading Room of the British Library.
The sculpture on the pedestal on the right hand foreground is A youth on horseback from 1st century AD Rome.
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#3 NATIONAL GALLERY
5,085,000 visitors in 2010/11
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
I think the National Gallery is a must see if you come to London - even if all you do is climb the steps at the main entrance and look out at Trafalgar square and down Whitehall to parliament. It's an iconic view
I do high speed tours of the National Gallery for people who come to visit London and me. However it's very easy to spend a complete day here as there are a colossal number of fine works of art in the collection and on display (when they're not travelling the world). You'll often find there are a lot more people in the National Gallery than you might expect. The very popular - and crowded - galleries are those housing the nineteenth century British (Turner. Constable, Gainsborough etc) and European art (Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne and the rest).
They do a good programme of courses, lectures and workshops - you need to move fast to book up for some of them.
The food is pretty good too and you have a choice of three separate venues within the building. My preference is for a table in the corner of the National Dining Rooms overlooking Trafalgar Square with Eton Mess for dessert.
4,382,614 visitors in 2008
4,780,030 visitors in 2009
4,954,914 visitors in 2010 (3.7% increase)
5,085,000 visitors in year ending March 2011
Tel: +44 (0)20 7747 2885
- The National Gallery, London
- The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries. It is on show 361 days a year, free of charge.
- Paintings | The National Gallery, London
- The National Gallery houses one of the greatest collections of Western European painting in the world. Explore the entire National Gallery Collection online
- What's on | National Gallery
- Exhibitions and events this season: explore paintings at the National Gallery through a wide range of activities
- Learning | National Gallery, London
- Discover new ways to get more from the National Gallery Collection - find inspiration and learn about art
- National Gallery (London) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900[a] in its home on Trafalgar Square. The gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.[2] Its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the main collection (though not some special exhibitions) is free of charge.
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
photo copyright Katherine Tyrrell
The Art Museum
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#4 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (South Kensington)
4,809,647 visitors in 2010/11
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5792
The Natural History Museum is a branch of the British Museum. It originally moved to South Kensington in 1881 and houses all the natural history collections generated by original voyages of discovery. Its current mission is to maintain and develop its collections, and use them to promote the discovery, understanding, responsible use and enjoyment of the natural world.
This museum has seen an incredible expansion in visitor numbers in recent years - coupled with a significant development programme for its internal structure - which now includes the 8 storey cocoon shaped Darwin centre which opened in 2009 and now houses the 20 million plant and insect specimens.
The museum also has a rather splendid dinosaur in its main entrance hall.
3,701,347 visitors in 2008
4,105,106 visitors in 2009
4,647,613 visitors in 2010 (13.2% increase)
- Natural History Museum
- The Natural History Museum, London, England, home page
- Natural History Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Natural History Museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Darwin.
- What's on | Natural History Museum
- All events and activities at the Natural History Museum
- Visit us | Natural History Museum
- From where to eat and drink to information on our latest exhibitions, the Visit us section tells you everything you need to plan a great day out at the Natural History Museum, London.
- Nature online - explore the natural world | Natural History Museum
- Explore the natural world - find out the latest nature news, take part in nature surveys, and discover what's happening at the Natural History Museum.
- Evolve | Natural History Museum
- A quarterly full-colour magazine - with insights to the Museum's work - plus interviews, features, private views and events for your diary.
- Five of the best... British natural history museums - Green Living - The Ecologist
- Don't despair if this weekend turns out to be a washout; the UK's natural history museums are the perfect place to spend a rainy afternoon. Gervase Poulden has five of the best
Large Mammals in the Natural History Museum
photo copyright Katherine Tyrrell
natural history on the museum's exterior
Photo copyright Katherine Tyrrell
BOOKS: Museums and Galleries in London
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#5 SCIENCE MUSEUM (South Kensington)
2,766,994 visitors in 2010/11
The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD.
Open 10am - 6pm every day except 24 to 26 December.
The Science Museum was founded in 1857 as part of the South Kensington Museum. In 1909 it gained its independence. It's now renowned as the home to a number of famous items such as Stephenson's original Rocket locomotive, Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 and Crick and Watson's DNA model. The Science Museum has over 300,000 objects in its care, with particular strengths in the history of western science, engineering technology and medicine since 1700.
ITogether with three other museums it forms the National Museum of Science and Industry
2,647,487 visitors in 2008
2,793,930 visitors in 2009
2,751,902 visitors in 2010
2,766,994 visitors in 2010/11 (year ending March 2011)
Entry is FREE, but charges apply for the IMAX 3D Cinema, simulators and some special exhibitions.
- Science Museum
- Website of the Science Museum in South Kensington, London
- Science Museum (London) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Science Museum is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry. The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including such famous items as Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive), the first jet engine, a reconstruction of Francis Crick and James Watson's model of DNA, some of the earliest remaining steam engines, a working example of Charles Babbage's Difference engine, the first prototype of the 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now, and documentation of the first typewriter. It also contains hundreds of interactive exhibits. A recent addition is the IMAX 3D Cinema showing science and nature documentaries, some of them in 3-D, and the Wellcome Wing which focuses on digital technology.
- Science Museum - Special Exhibitions
- Lists all the current and past special exhibitions
- Visit the Science Museum
- Visit museum, opening hours, opening times, directions, galleries, exhbitions, IMAX
- Some snapshots of our collections
- See some examples of the collections that we hold
- The National Museum of Science and Industry
- The Science Museum
The National Media Museum, Bradford,
The National Railway Museum, York
Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon
The Science Museum at Wroughton
Top Art Galleries and Museums in London
25% of the top art galleries and museums IN THE WORLD!
London is the top capital in the world for the number of top ranking museums.
In fact it has 25% of the top 20 art museums and galleries in the world making it the number one top spot for visitors who enjoy visiting galleries and museums which cover the spectrum of the visual arts.
These are the rankings - in the world! - based on the number of visits in 2009
#2 British Museum, London
#4 National Gallery, London
#5 Tate Modern, London
#15 Victoria and Albert Museum, London
#17 National Portrait Gallery, London (also the top portrait gallery in the world)
#23 Tate Britain, London
#6 VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
2,619,505 visitors in 2010/11
The Victoria and Albert Museum is located at Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
The V&A is probably the greatest museum of decorative art and design in the world. It has over 3,000 years worth of artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures and over 1,000,000 works. The purpose of the Victoria and Albert Museum is to enable everyone to enjoy its collections, explore the cultures that created them and to inspire those who shape contemporary design.
It's been enjoying a significant increase in visitors in the last couple of years.
2,483,382 visitors in 2008
2,269,880 visitors in 2009
2,629,065 visitors in 2010 (16% increase)
3,042,034 visitors in year ending March 2011 (including the Museum of Childhood)
Museum Opening Hours: 10.00 to 17.45 daily; 10.00 to 22.00 Fridays (selected galleries remain open after 18.00. ).
Closing commences 10 mins before time stated
Closed 24, 25 & 26 December
The tunnel entrance to the V&A is open from 10.00 - 17.30 daily but may be closed, on occasion, on the advice of London Underground.
- Victoria and Albert Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to now cover some 12.5 acres (0.05 km2)[2] and 145 galleries. Its collection spans 5000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.
- The Victoria and Albert Museum
- V&A South Kensington is the world's greatest museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. Discover 3000 years' worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings.
- Map of the Museum - Victoria and Albert Museum
- V&A Map
- Opening Times - Victoria and Albert Museum
- Opening Times
- V&A Museum of Childhood
- The national collection of childhood-related objects and artefacts spanning the 1600s to the present day, including toys, dolls, dolls' houses, teddy bears, games, puppets and more.
V&A Museum of Childhood: Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA
Tel: +44 (0)20 8983 5200
Email: moc@vam.ac.uk
Open 10.00-17.45 Monday-Sunday (last admission 17.30) - Current Exhibitions & Displays - Victoria and Albert Museum
- Current Exhibitions & Displays - Explore the V&A's programme of changing exhibitions and displays.
Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington
Photo copyright Katherine Tyrrell
BOOKS: The Rough Guide to London
#7 NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
2,433,163 visitors in 2010/11
National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
The National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory and Queen's House are normally open 10.00-17.00 seven days a week. Last admission 30 minutes before closing. Admission free.
The Museum is located in Greenwich, a short walk from the Cutty Sark DLR, local bus stops and Maze Hill and Greenwich stations. The Royal Observatory and Planetarium are in Greenwich Park.
2,068,244 visitors in 2008
2,367,904 visitors in 2009
2,419,802 visitors in 2010
2,433,163 visitors in year ending March 11
- National Maritime Museum: sea, ships, time and the stars : NMM
- The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich consists of the Maritime Galleries, the Royal Observatory and the 17th-century Queen's House, and incorporates the Prime Meridian of the world and London's only planetarium. Its collections contain over two million items relating to seafaring, navigation, astr
- National Maritime Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, England is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world. The historic buildings forming part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, it also incorporates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and 17th-century Queen's House. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
- Exhibitions : Visit the museum : NMM
- Over 20 galleries and exhibitions at the Museum's three venues showcase world-class collections about the sea, ships, stars and time.
- Flickr: National Maritime Museum's Photostream
- We're posting pictures to Flickr to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the Museum. You'll see everything from new acquisitions, to conservation work-in-progress and exhibition installations.
The National Maritime Museum joined The Commons on Flickr and you're invited to help us interpret our historic photographs collection.
The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Source: Wikipedia
#8 NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
1,758,522 visitors in 2010/11
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
The National Portrait Gallery has to be one of the best if not the best portrait gallery in the world, in terms of breadth and depth of the collection. The Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. It aims to promote the medium of portraiture which today focuses on photography as well as painting. Sculpture tends to come a poor third behind these two.
Every year it plays host to a major portrait prize of international significance
1,829,155 visitors in 2008
1,961,843 visitors in 2009
1,819,442 visitors in 2010
1,758,522 visitors in year ending March 11
Open daily 10:00-18:00; Open until 21:00 Thursday and Friday.
Last admission to paying exhibitions is either 45 minutes or 1 hour before the Gallery closes.
- National Portrait Gallery - Home
- Founded in 1856, the aim of the National Portrait Gallery, London is 'to promote through the medium of portraits the appreciation and understanding of the men and women who have made and are making British history and culture, and ... to promote the appreciation and understanding of portraiture in all media'.
The Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. The Collection is displayed in London and in a number of locations around the United Kingdom, including several houses managed by the National Trust. - National Portrait Gallery (London) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in London, England, housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait gallery in the world when it opened in 1856.[2] The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. The collection includes photographs and caricatures as well as paintings, drawings and sculpture - National Portrait Gallery | Facebook
- Welcome to the official Facebook Page of National Portrait Gallery. Get exclusive content and interact with National Portrait Gallery right from Facebook. Join Facebook to create your own Page or to start connecting with friends.
- NPG on Twitter
- The world's largest collection of personalities and faces from Elizabeth I to David Beckham. Admission free. Tweeting: Jonathan, Sabina and Denise
National Portrait Gallery, London
#9 IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (London)
1,095,442 visitors in 2101/11
Imperial War Museum London
Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
ENTRY IS FREE (there is a charge for temporary exhibitions)
Open 7 days a week except 24 - 26 December 10.00am - 6.00pm
- Imperial War Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Imperial War Museum
A three-storey brick building with tall copper dome on top, a frontage of six Doric columns and portico, and in front of the columns two large, grey naval guns with red tampion badges on a concrete base.
Imperial War Museum London
Established 1917
Location Lambeth Road, London SE1, England
Collection size 10,700,000 items or collections of items.[1]
Visitor figures Imperial War Museum London 865,601
All Museum branches 2,006,765[2].
Director Diane Lees[3]
Public transit access Lambeth North Bakerloo roundel1.PNG[4]
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Southwark Jubilee roundel1.PNG (25 railtransportation.svg Waterloo East)
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London Bus routes: 3, 59, 159, 344, 360
Website www.iwm.org.uk
Imperial War Museum network
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms · HMS Belfast · Imperial War Museum Duxford · Imperial War Museum North
The Imperial War Museum is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. The museum was founded during the First World War in 1917 and intended as a record of the war effort and sacrifice of Britain and her Empire. Today the museum gives its mission as 'to enable people to have an informed understanding of modern war and its impact on individuals and society
The museum's collections include archives of personal and official documents, photographs, film and video material, and oral history recordings; an extensive library, a large art collection, and examples of military vehicles and aircraft, equipment and other artefacts. The museum is funded by government grants, charitable donations and revenue generation through commercial activity such as retailing, licensing, and publishing. Admission is free to Imperial War Museum London and Imperial War Museum North, but an admission fee is levied at the other branches. The museum is an exempt charity under the Charities Act 1993 and a non-departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. - Welcome to the Imperial War Museum
- The Imperial War Museum, the multi-branch national museum of war and wartime life from the First World War, through the Second World War, to the present day.
- Welcome to the Imperial War Museum London Home Page
- IWM London, the headquarters of the Imperial War Museum, the multi-branch national museum of war and wartime life from 1914 to the present day
- What's On at the Imperial War Museum London?
- What's On at the Imperial War Museum London? Full listings of special events, exhibitions and family days out.
- Exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum London
- Find out about the exhibitions at Imperial War Museum London.
- Imperial War Museum London > Visitor Information > Imperial War Museum London Map
- View larger interactive map in Google
Spitfire at the London Imperial War Museum
Source: Wikipedia
#10 HORNIMAN MUSEUM
584,974 visitors in 2010/11
Horniman Museum & Gardens, 100 London Rd, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ.
Open daily 10:30am - 5:30pm
Free Admission
- Horniman Museum and Gardens - explore your world
- The Horniman Museum is a free, family friendly museum with exhibits from around the world to delight adults and children alike. It has nationally and internationally important collections which cover musical instruments, anthropology (world cultures) and natural history. The Museum also incorporates
The Horniman, through its collections and related exhibitions and events, seeks to encourage a wider appreciation of the World, its peoples and their cultures, and its environments. - Horniman Museum and Gardens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Horniman Museum is a museum in Forest Hill, South London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Arts and Crafts style.[1]
The Horniman Museum is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and is constituted as a company and registered charity under English law
The Horniman specialises in anthropology, natural history and musical instruments and has a collection of 350,000 objects. The ethnography and music collections have Designated status. One of its most famous exhibits is the large collection of stuffed animals. It also has an aquarium noted for its unique layout. - Horniman Museum exhibition and event details
- The Horniman has a unique range of exhibitions, events and activities which illustrate the cultural and natural world. Our collections of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments provide the inspiration for our programme of permanent and temporary exhibitions and events and activities.
Other Museums in London
- Wallace Collection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries.
Museum statistics
- VISITS MADE IN 2009 TO VISITOR ATTRACTIONS IN MEMBERSHIP WITH ALVA : ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, England, Wales, Scotland, UK
- Visitor Statistics - VISITS MADE IN 2009 TO VISITOR ATTRACTIONS
- Department for Culture Media and Sport - monthly visits
- monthly and annual visitor statistics sfor museums and art galleries funded by DCMS
BOOKS: Lonely Planet London
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Feb 9, 2012 @ 7:19 am | delete
- Hey Great lens! I just made a lens on 100 Great things about London and figured you might like it? It's a collaborative thing, so you might even like to contribute?!
Anyways hope you like it - it all based from a blog if you're interested http://100london.blogspot.com/
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goldenrulecomics
Jan 26, 2012 @ 10:57 pm | delete
- We visited all 10 when we lived in London, and I'm glad to see the Horniman listed. We lived somewhat near it and visited there several times. It's lesser known but very cool. Nice lens!
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webgain
Dec 21, 2011 @ 1:08 am | delete
- great lens.. i like London and this is nice lens about museums in London. I really enjoyed it.
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lovetouring
Jun 8, 2011 @ 5:13 pm | delete
- The science, war and history museum are fantastic attractions for families with young child, especially during the upcoming half term and pending summer holidays. They often have events running (check their websites for the latest information) and offer a wide range of tactile exhibitions for the kids to touch, play with and climb over.
And entry is free so it wont burst the bank! Well at least not until the kids reach the gift shop ;)
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LondonWanderer
Apr 15, 2011 @ 10:31 am | delete
- A fantastic lens. If you get a chance please check out my (short) lens on the Sir John Soane's Museum in London, it really is a gem.
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poddys
Apr 1, 2011 @ 3:03 pm | delete
- Great lens and a great list of museums too. The Museum Of London is good as well. I went to the Tate Gallery, and it was awful, full of modern art that I just didn't get. Love the Science, Natural History and Imperial War Museums. Blessed by an angel.
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