List of Museums To Visit In England

Apsley House Apsley House, home of the first Duke of Wellington and his descendants, stands right in the heart of London at Hyde Park Corner. For over 200 years, this great metropolitan mansion has been known colloquially as 'Number 1 London', because it was the first house encountered after passing the tollgates at the top of Knightsbridge. Inside Apsley House you will see many aspects of the first duke's life and work, including his outstanding ...

Bank of England Museum The Bank of England Museum tells the story of the Bank of England from its foundation in 1694 to its role today as the United ...

The British Museum Located in the Bloomsbury area of London, the British Museum is the location of a national collection of science and art treasures. It might be called The British Museum, but its exhibits represent the cultural history of much of the world. With artifacts from dozens of ancient and modern countries, exhibits include the Rosetta Stone, Aztec pottery, Phoenician clay masks, Roman coffins and mummy cases, medieval European coins, the Elgin marbles, Leonardo da Vinci's notebook, and jewelry from ...

Garden Museum The Garden Museum (formerly the Museum of Garden History) aims to become the leading national venue for exhibitions and debate on gardens and garden design.  The Garden Museum was founded in 1977 and over the past three decades a unique collection has been assembled through ongoing purchases, donations and bequests. Today the Museum holds over 9000 objects, each one of which in some way represents British gardens and gardening.

Gilbert Whites House and The Oates Museum Visit Gilbert Whites House and The Oates Museum and enjoy a special day out at this fascinating and most original museum commemorating important individuals in the exploration of the natural world, set in an historic village in beautiful countryside.  With over 20 acres of garden and parkland and a good selection of unusual plants for sale there is always plenty to do outside. Gilbert Whites House Though he became owner of the Wakes ...

The Jewel Tower dates back over 700 years and is an intriguing visitor attraction in the heart of Westminster and was built in 1365 to house the King’s personal treasures.

At the London Canal Museum you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargo that was carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats.  The Canal Museum is the only London museum of inland waterways and is situated at King's Cross, an easy to get to central London location.

The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising presents the collection of consumer historian, Robert Opie, who saw the need to record the history of the products around us. Starting at the age of sixteen with a packet of Munchies, Robert built up the collection that now extends to all aspects of daily life - toys, magazines, technology, travel, souvenirs, fashion and design.

Natural History Museum The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum). Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport 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. ...

Porthcurno Telegraph Museum In 1870, Porthcurno began its life as an important centre of international communications. It was in this year that a chain of telegraph cables linking Britain with India was completed. Porthcurno was chosen as the landing point for the British end of this cable link. Porthcurno is situated just three miles away from Land's End, the most south-westerly point of Cornwall.  The museum is a focus for research into the history of the parish of ...

Science Museum The Science Museum was founded in 1857 with objects shown at the Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace. Today the Museum is world renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries and inspirational exhibitions. The Science Museum as an institution has been in existence for about a century and a half. It has its origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851, held in Hyde Park in the huge glass building known as the Crystal Palace. The science museum has ...

Situated at 13 Lincolns Inn Fields, Holborn - The Soanes Museum is the former residence of Sir John Soane, architect of the Bank of England. Over 20,000 architectural drawings, antiquities and works by Hogarth, Turner, Canaletto and Piranesi. Two sets of paintings by William Hogarth and the Egyptian Sarcophagus of Seti I.

The Guards Museum contains a wealth of information and artefacts relating to the five regiments of Foot Guards namely Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards.

Victoria and Albert Museum The V & A is one of the greatest museums of art & design. It was founded following the Great Exhibition of 1851 as a learning resource . More than 7 miles of galleries are filled with collections including glass, metalwork, ceramics, photography, sculpture and fashion, charting the history and development of the decorative arts from 3000 BC to the present day. Explore the V&A's programme of changing exhibitions and displays. Complementing the Museum's permanent collection, they ...

Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience Winston Churchills Britain at War Experience.  Allow a minimum of 90 minutes to explore the historic rooms and museum.  The Churchill Museum uses cutting-edge technology and multimedia displays to bring the exciting story of Winston Churchill to life. From Churchill’s childhood to his ‘finest hour’ and later years, visitors not only learn more about his political exploits but also his private life, successes and failures.