Best 15 museums to visit in London: Top London museums guide

If you’re planning a stay in London, visits to London’s world-class museums will be near the top of your to-do list. London has an incredible range of top, exciting, interactive museums.
From The British Museum to the Science Museum and the Museum of London, there’s a museum to suit every interest.
Museums in London are extremely well-planned and organized to suit all ages. If you’re planning London museum visits with children, there’s no need to worry. All the top museums have excellent children’s trails, backpacks with activities that they carry around to do, children’s workshops, exhibitions and more.
In fact, this level of provision for children is pretty much standard for top museums in the UK.
All the top museums in London cater to all tastes with thrilling, fascinating, interactive exhibits, wide-ranging collections and all sorts of things to do and see. Most have stylish cafes and are in prominent London locations with parks and often the River Thames nearby.
The UK has a policy of keeping its museums free to enter so all the top London museums are free. Once inside, seasonal exhibitions in the best London museums usually charge for entry but apart from that everything else is free.
Use this handy guide to discover all the best museums in London so you can plan how to fit in as many as possible!

Best 15 museums to visit in London: Top London museums guide
1.The Science Museum: The Science Museum is arguably the most exciting museum in London. The Science Museum charts the history of science and innovation with all sorts of thrilling sights and interactive exhibits on display.
From robots to Tim Peake’s journey into space, flight simulators and engineering, there are four floors filled with epic experiences and brilliant things to do. The museum is super child friendly and a major hit with families of all ages.
If you’ve got children, put the Science Museum at the very top of your list! Do bring some money because there are lots of outstanding things that you can pay a couple of pounds to do, if you wish.

2.The Natural History Museum: The Natural History Museum is the UK’s home for the history of all things from our amazing natural world. From meteorites to dinosaur bones for what feels like every type of dinosaur, Charles Darwin’s epic findings, missions to Mars and so much more, a visit to the legendary Natural History Museum South Kensington is a must.
Children and adults find The Natural History Museum breathtaking so whichever selection of museums you choose to visit, make sure this one is on the list.

3.The British Museum: The British Museum is a whirlwind of magnificent artefacts from all the world’s great civilizations. From the Ancient Romans, to the Persians, the Ancient Egyptians, the Celts and all sorts of historical civilizations, you’ll find a multitude of fantastic artefacts on display.
For statues from Ancient Egypt, pottery from Ancient Rome, stunning jewelry from Celt Britain, mosaics from Ancient Greece and so much more, head to the British Museum.

4.The Museum of London: Chart the fascinating history of London at the Museum of London which is not far from St Paul’s Cathedral in Bank. Starting with its early days as a small city, travel through this highly interactive museum to follow London’s epic transformations following the invasions of the Romans, Vikings, Normans and more.
See how Londoners have lived from Ancient times until now and uncover how researchers predict we’ll live in the future.

5.The V&A: Get lost in the V&A’s extraordinary collection of historical artefacts. With art and design collections for just about every significant period in world history from across the world.
Best of all, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Natural History Museum and The Science Museum sit on opposite sides of the road so all you have to do is take a very short triangular walk from one to the other
From world-renowned fashion designers to ancient religious articles, enormous stone statues, opulent Georgian home furnishings and lots more, it’s all a the Victoria and Albert Museum. The only difficulty is trying to fit it all in before it’s time to go home!

6.The London Transport Museum: The London Transport museum is located in the heart of Covent Museum. This is a brilliant museum where all the vehicles from London’s public transport system’s history spanning more than 150 years, are available for you to explore.
You can sit on them, discover what they were like to use and how they came into being.
The London Transport Museum is another fabulous one for the children and the gift shop is not to be missed for its iconic London Transport memorabilia. In fact, all of London’s museums have marvellous gift shops. The Science Museum’s gift shop is another great one – a bit like a mini Hamley’s.

7.The Horniman’s Museum and Gardens: The Horniman’s Museum is just up the road from Dulwich Village in South London and offers something completely different.
The site includes a children’s farm, a vegetable garden, an aquarium, a park, a children’s playpark and the museum.
The Horniman’s Museum and Gardens houses artefacts and natural wonders from all over the world. It’s a favorite for families with lots of exhibitions and interactive things for children to do

Other top London museums include:
8.The Churchill War Rooms where you can go down into the underground rooms which served as Churchill’s headquarters during the Second World War.

9.The Tower of London which was once a prominent royal palace, then a royal prison but is now home to the infamous Crown Jewels and London’s iconic Beefeaters.

10.The Design Museum which tells the story of the history of modern design using lots of interactive exhibits.

Top London galleries: I can’t tell you about all our brilliant London museums without mentioning our magnificent art galleries too. We have tons of art galleries in London and each offers something totally different.
Whatever your artistic tastes, from Rothko to Turner there’s a London art gallery to suit.

11.The National Gallery: For all the global masters and serious art heritage, head to the National Gallery which sits proudly at the top of Trafalgar Square. From Vincent Van Gogh to Monet and all the Renaissance greats, you’ll find all the tremendous works by the masters of old at the National Gallery.
All our London art galleries offer excellent tours, seasonal exhibitions, children’s activities and more. 
Next door to the National Gallery is the National Portrait Gallery which charts the progress of portraits from the traditional styles of the past to the present day.

12.The National Portrait Gallery: The National Portrait Gallery has portraits of just about every famous person in history. From Henry the VIII’s six wives to the Queen and David Beckham, you’ll find artworks for every iconic celebrity as well as plenty of ordinary people there.

13.The Tate Modern: For modern art and stunning installations, the Tate Modern in London Bridge is our premier gallery for modern art.
At the Tate Modern you’ll discover all the pop art greats as well as famous modern artists such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst plus modern sculptors like Henry Moore.

14.The Saatchi Gallery & Tate Britain: The Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea is another great bastion of funky modern art whilst Tate Britain has a refined, vast collection of magnificent works by British artists past and present, such as Turner and Blake.

15.Dulwich Gallery: If you visit the Horniman’s Museum, you may want to stop by Dulwich Gallery which sits in pretty Dulwich Village opposite tranquil Dulwich Park. Dulwich Park is the perfect spot to stop for lunch before heading up to the Horniman’s Museum.
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