Museums & Galleries

Anaesthesia Heritage Centre

Displays of surgical instruments

Bank of England Museum

History of the bank and mint

Bow Street Police Museum

Former police jail cells

British Museum

Treasures of ancient civilisations

Charles Dickens Museum

Famous Victorian Novelist

Chelsea Pensioners Museum

Historic home for military veterans

Courtauld Gallery

Renaissance and Impressionist art

Cromwell Place

Exhibition spaces in townhouses

Cutty Sark

19th century tea clipper

Design Museum

Celebration of contemporary design

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Collection of Old Master paintings

Fan Museum

Intricately decorated fans

Fashion & Textile Museum

Exhibitions of contemporary fashion

Florence Nightingale Museum

Pioneering Victorian Nurse

Foundling Museum

18th century children's home

Garden Museum

Horticultural exhibits in a former church

Guildhall Art Gallery

Paintings and Roman Amphitheatre

Handel Hendrix House

Homes of two famous musicians

Hayward Gallery

Contemporary art and sculpture

Horniman Museum

Anthropology and Natural History

Hunterian Museum

Collection of medical specimens

Imperial War Museum

Stories of 20th & 21st century war

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Film and modern art exhibitions

Islington Museum

Council run social history museum

Leighton House

Orientalist villa of aristocratic artist

London Transport Museum

Vintage buses and tube trains

Mall Galleries

Commercial art exhibitions

Museum of Brands

Vast array of branded packaging

Museum of the Order of St John

Medieval and Victorian religious order

National Army Museum

History and present day army life

National Gallery

Government owned collection of paintings

National Maritime Museum

Nautical artifacts and arctic expeditions

Natural History Museum

Geological and wildlife exhibits

Newport Street Gallery

Modern art owned by Damien Hurst

Old Royal Naval College

Maritime history and painted hall

Oxo Tower Wharf

Community owned art and design venue

Postal Museum

Royal Mail museum and train ride

Royal Academy of Arts

Home to famous summer exhibition

Royal Academy of Music Museum

String and keyboard instrument displays

Royal College of Music Museum

Featuring Friday lunchtime performances

Royal Observatory

Astrology and the epicentre of GMT

Saatchi Gallery

Owned by advertising magnate

Sambourne House

Victorian home of Punch cartoonist

Science Museum

Industry, Engineering and Space exhibits

Serpentine Galleries

Pair of galleries set in Hyde Park

Sir John Soane's Museum

Home of Georgian classical architect

Somerset House

Events venue, former government offices

Southwark Park Galleries

Showcase for lesser known artists

Tate Britain

Hosts the Turner Prize exhibition

Tate Modern

Modern art in former power station

Tower Bridge Engine Rooms

Preserved steam stationary engines

Victoria and Albert Museum

Art and design museum

Wallace Collection

Art collection in a palatial townhouse

Wellcome Collection

Health and medicine exhibitions

White Cube

Minimalist commercial gallery