![Apsley House](/i/att/apsley-house.webp)
Apsley House - The Duke of Wellington’s mansion is filled with his memorabilia and art collection won during his campaigns and at the Battle of Waterloo4
![Bank of England Museum](/i/att/bank-of-england-museum.webp)
Bank of England Museum - This museum tells the story of money and the Bank of England, and has lots of interesting old paintings and photos6
![Benjamin Franklin House](/i/att/benjamin-franklin-house.webp)
Benjamin Franklin House - Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers whohelped to draft the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence3
![Billingsgate Roman House & Baths](/i/att/billingsgate-roman-house-and-baths.webp)
Billingsgate Roman House & Baths - The archaeological remains of a Roman house from 200 AD, buried in an office basement on Lower Thames Street2
![British Library](/i/att/british-library.webp)
British Library - The Treasures of the British Library Exhibition contains works and letters by the likes of Henry VIII, Leonardo da Vinci and Shakespeare4
![British Museum](/i/att/british-museum.webp)
British Museum - One of the world’s great museums with objects from ancient Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome, plus artefacts from Asia, Africa and the Americas6
![Charles Dickens Museum](/i/att/charles-dickens-museum.webp)
Charles Dickens Museum - The Victorian novelist lived in this house during the 1830s when he was writing Oliver Twist and the Pickwick Papers4
![Churchill War Rooms](/i/att/churchill-war-rooms.webp)
Churchill War Rooms - The atmospheric tunnels under Whitehall look exactly as they did when Churchill met with his cabinet during the Blitz6
![Clink Prison Museum](/i/att/clink-prison-museum.webp)
Clink Prison - Located on the site of the notorious medieval gaol, the Clink Prison Museum is a good day out for kids and less-scary than the London Dungeon4
![Cutty Sark](/i/att/cutty-sark.webp)
Cutty Sark - During the 1870s this famous old clipper ship used to sail to China in world record times. Now you can explore its cabins and walk around the deck6
![Design Museum](/i/att/design-museum.webp)
Design Museum - The Design Museum takes the best of 20th and 21st-century design and reveals how consumers’ tastes have changed through the decades4
![Dr Johnson’s House](/i/att/dr-johnsons-house.webp)
Dr Johnson’s House - A Georgian townhouse that was home to the writer Samuel Johnson best known for writing the first English dictionary3
![Fleming Museum](/i/att/fleming-museum.webp)
Fleming Museum - Fleming’s old laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital where the Nobel Prize-winning doctor discovered penicillin has now been turned into a museum3
![Florence Nightingale Museum](/i/att/florence-nightingale-museum.webp)
Florence Nightingale Museum - St. Thomas’ Hospital has a museum about the Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale and her work in the Crimean War3
![Garden Museum](/i/att/garden-museum.webp)
Garden Museum - St. Mary-at-Lambeth houses a museum about the early days of gardening with a graveyard out the back containing the tomb of Captain Bligh3
![Golden Hinde](/i/att/golden-hinde.webp)
Golden Hinde - This replica of the ship which carried Sir Francis Drake around the world has plenty of decks and cabins for your kids to walk around and explore8
![Guards’ Museum](/i/att/guards-museum.webp)
Guards’ Museum - Discover the history of the Foot Guards: the Coldstream, Grenadier, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards, and see some Waterloo memorabilia2
![Guildhall Art Gallery](/i/att/guildhall-art-gallery.webp)
Guildhall Art Gallery - This is much more than an art gallery because it contains the archaeological remains of London’s Roman amphitheatre in the basement4
![Handel & Hendrix in London](/i/att/handel-and-hendrix-in-london.webp)
Handel & Hendrix in London - This building was once home to two very different musicians: the German composer Handel and guitar hero Jimi Hendrix4
![HMS Belfast](/i/att/hms-belfast.webp)
HMS Belfast - This cruiser fought in World War II and Korea and you can walk through the bridge, engine rooms, missile rooms, mess hall and crew cabins6
![Household Cavalry Museum](/i/att/household-cavalry-museum.webp)
Household Cavalry Museum - Discover the history of the Household Cavalry and look through a window into the stables where they groom the horses3
![Hunterian Museum](/i/att/hunterian-museum.webp)
Hunterian Museum - Housed inside the Royal College of Surgeons and filled with specimens, skeletons and the fossilised remains of old animals and humans1
![Imperial War Museum](/i/att/imperial-war-museum.webp)
Imperial War Museum - This museum tells the story of the British Army during the Empire, World War I and II, right up to the Falkands and Gulf10
![Jewel Tower](/i/att/jewel-tower.webp)
Jewel Tower - The Jewel Tower was part of the old Palace of Westminster and houses a small exhibition about the history of the building2
![Leighton House Museum](/i/att/leighton-house-museum.webp)
Leighton House Museum - This house was once home to the Victorian artist Lord Frederic Leighton and contains some Pre-Raphaelite paintings2
![London Canal Museum](/i/att/london-canal-museum.webp)
London Canal Museum - This museum tells the story of the Regent’s Canal and how they transported the cargos by barge. There’s also a small dock out the back2
![London Mithraeum](/i/att/london-mithraeum.webp)
London Mithraeum - The remains of the Temple of Mithras, a well-reserved building from Roman London, can be found inside the Bloomberg building5
![Museum of London](/i/att/museum-of-london.webp)
Museum of London - The history of London from prehistoric times through the Roman, medieval, Tudor and Victorian eras, right up to the Swinging Sixties4
![Museum of London Docklands](/i/att/museum-of-london-docklands.webp)
Museum of London Docklands - This museum tells the story of how London’s river became one of the world’s busiest docks, and what it’s used for today4
![Museum of the Home](/i/att/museum-of-the-home.webp)
Museum of the Home - This unusual museum explores how home life has changed from the 1600s to the present day. It’s housed inside an 18th-century almshouse3
![National Army Museum](/i/att/national-army-museum.webp)
National Army Museum - This museum tells the history of the British military from the Battle of Agincourt through the Battle of Waterloo, and right up to World War II4
![National Maritime Museum](/i/att/national-maritime-museum.webp)
National Maritime Museum - The National Maritime Museum has a collection of historical artefacts like Nelson’s jacket from the Battle of Trafalgar3
![Natural History Museum](/i/att/natural-history-museum.webp)
Natural History Museum - A great museum for kids if they’re interested in dinosaurs, with a whole zoo’s-worth of stuffed mammals, fish and birds4
![Old Operating Theatre](/i/att/old-operating-theatre.webp)
Old Operating Theatre - An original 19th-century herb garrett and operating theatre which miraculously survived intact at the very top of St. Thomas’s Church3
![Petrie Museum](/i/att/petrie-museum.webp)
Petrie Museum - The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has cabinets full of ancient Egyptian pottery, sarcophagi, tombstones and decorated jewellery3
![Postal Museum](/i/att/postal-museum.webp)
Postal Museum - This museum contains much more than letters and stamps – you can also ride an old mail train through the tunnels that run under London3
![Royal Mews](/i/att/royal-mews.webp)
Royal Mews - A working stables for the horses that pull the royal carriages. You can also see the Queen’s limousines, State Coaches and Gold State Coach6
![St John’s Gate](/i/att/st-johns-gate.webp)
St. John’s Gate - Once part of Clerkenwell Priory, the headquarters of the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who gained fame during the Crusades2
![Science Museum](/i/att/science-museum.webp)
Science Museum - A great museum for kids if they like space. It also has lots of early inventions and vehicles, an IMAX cinema and some flight simulators6
![Sherlock Holmes Museum](/i/att/sherlock-holmes-museum.webp)
Sherlock Holmes Museum - 221b Baker Street has been decorated to look like the home of the fictional detective and filled with Holmes memorabilia4
![Sir John Soane’s Museum](/i/att/sir-john-soanes-museum.webp)
Sir John Soane’s Museum - This house has to be seen to be believed, it’s crammed full of ancient artefacts and an Egyptian pharaoh’s sarcophagi1
![Transport Museum](/i/att/transport-museum.webp)
Transport Museum - The Transport Museum contains a collection of early trains and buses, from horse-drawn coaches right up to today’s red Routemasters5
![Victoria & Albert Museum](/i/att/victoria-and-albert-museum.webp)
Victoria & Albert Museum - Highlights include the Cast Room and Raphael’s Cartoons, which were his preparatory studies for the Sistine Chapel7
![Wallace Collection](/i/att/wallace-collection.webp)
Wallace Collection - Part art gallery and part museum, the Wallace Collection has old armour, French furnishings, and paintings like The Laughing Cavalier4
![18 Stafford Terrace](/i/att/18-stafford-terrace.webp)
18 Stafford Terrace - Edward Linley Sambourne’s Victorian home still looks like it did in the late 19th-century, when he worked as an illustrator for Punch1
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