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National Maritime Museum
Maritime stories give Greenwich an indoor anchor, with the wider royal museums and park waiting nearby.
The London edit
Places worth your time
The museums, market and park behind our London edit.
Explore our growing London selection, with checked practical details and official sources.
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Young V&A
A Bethnal Green museum built around childhood, creativity and design, with a different energy from a conventional art-gallery afternoon.
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National Army Museum
Military history in Chelsea, considered through the people, objects and institutions that shaped the British Army.
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Bank of England Museum
Money, banknotes and the workings of the Bank of England become the subject of a compact City museum visit.
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
Art, film and ideas on The Mall, with a programme that gives central London a more experimental cultural stop.
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Horniman Museum and Gardens
Collections, music and natural history sit alongside gardens in Forest Hill, making room for an afternoon that moves indoors and out.
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London Transport Museum
Buses, trains and graphic design tell the story of how London moves, in the former market buildings of Covent Garden.
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Dulwich Picture Gallery
A painting collection in Dulwich with a purpose-built gallery and a neighbourhood setting that invites a longer south-London afternoon.
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Freud Museum London
Freud’s last home in Hampstead brings together domestic rooms, objects and the history of psychoanalysis.
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South London Gallery
Contemporary art on Peckham Road, with exhibitions that make a strong starting point for exploring Camberwell and Peckham.
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Dennis Severs’ House
An atmospheric historic house in Spitalfields, arranged as a sequence of rooms rather than a conventional display of labelled objects.
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Handel Hendrix House
Two musicians, two periods and neighbouring Mayfair addresses make an unusually compact journey through London’s musical history.
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Museum of the Home
Domestic interiors trace changing ways of living, inside historic almshouses in Hoxton with gardens around them.
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The Postal Museum
Letters, postal design and the infrastructure of delivery open up a less familiar chapter of London history.
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Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Modern Italian painting and sculpture in an Islington townhouse, a concentrated art stop away from the largest museum crowds.
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Foundling Museum
Art, philanthropy and the history of children’s care meet in this Bloomsbury museum near Coram’s Fields.
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Leighton House
A painter’s house where the interiors are a major part of the draw, from decorative surfaces to the studio itself.
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Sambourne House
A preserved Victorian home in Kensington offers a close view of the domestic world of illustrator Edward Linley Sambourne.
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Hunterian Museum
Surgical and anatomical collections in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, for a museum visit centred on the history of medicine.
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Kenwood
An art collection in a historic house on the edge of Hampstead Heath, easily combined with a longer walk across the landscape.
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2 Willow Road
Ernő Goldfinger’s modernist home in Hampstead offers an intimate way into architecture, design and the objects of daily life.
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Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
John Soane’s country retreat in Ealing now pairs historic rooms with a contemporary exhibition programme.
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Saatchi Gallery
Contemporary art in Chelsea’s Duke of York Square, with a changing exhibition programme to check before choosing your afternoon.
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St James’s Park
A central-London walk around the lake, linking Westminster with the royal parks and giving a busy sightseeing day some breathing room.