London’s most weird and unusual Museums
If you like to differ and try to find weird stuff to do then London is the best place for you. As you may already know London can be very controversial and of course it can please even the most demanding and eccentric Londoners or tourists. There are a dozen of free amazing things to do every single day. London is one of the metropolis of arts and culture and the best thing is that most of the museums and galleries in town offer free admission. There are several world wide famous museums from the likes of the British Museum, the V&A, the National History Museum and the Science Museum.
However there are also several unusual museums in London. We found a great article by John O’ Ceallaigh’s article in Telegraph which lists 50 of London’s best alternative and quirky museums! Check below the list and read the whole article(Part 1 and Part 2) for further info about each museum.
1. Fan Museum, Greenwich
2. Cartoon Museum, Holborn
3. Old Operating Theatre, London Bridge
4. Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising; Notting Hill
5. The Vault at Hard Rock Café, Park Lane
6. British Dental Association Dental Museum, Marylebone
7. Pollock’s Toy Museum, Fitzrovia
8. The Crime Museum, New Scotland Yard
9. Geffrye Museum, Hackney
10. Household Cavalry Museum
11. Magic Circle Museum, Euston
12. Freud Museum, Hampstead
13. London Sewing Machine Museum, Balham
14. London Fire Brigade Museum, Southwark
15. Sherlock Holmes Museum, Baker Street
16. The Royal London Museum, Whitechapel
17. Bank of England Museum, City of London
18. Garden Museum, Lambeth
19. World Rugby Museum, Twickenham
20. New London Architecture, Holborn
21. The Cinema Museum, Kennington
22. Leighton House Museum, Holland Park
23. V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
24. Petrie Museum, Euston
25. Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Whitechapel
26. British Optical Association Museum, Charing Cross
27. Ragged School Museum, Mile End
28. Florence Nightinggale Museum, Lambeth
29. Firepower, the Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich
30. John Keats House, Hampstead
31. The Olympic Museum, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
32. Sir John Soane’s Museum, Holborn
33. Anaesthesia Heritage Centre Museum, Portland Place
34. Museum of Freemasonry, Covent Garden
35. Fashion and Textile Museum, Bermondsey
36. Handel House Museum, Mayfair
37. HMS Belfast, Tower Bridge
38. Cuming Museum, Southwark
39. Horniman Museum, Lewisham
40. MCC Museum, Lord’s Cricket Ground
41. Westminster Abbey Museum, Westminster
42. The Clockmakers’ Museum, Moorgate
43. Hunterian Museum, Holborn
44. Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square
45. National Army Museum, Chelsea
46. Grant Museum of Zoology, Euston
47. The Guards Museum, Victoria
48. 2 Willow Road, Hampstead
49. Museum of the Order of St John, Clerkenwell
50. Churchill War Rooms and Churchill Museum, Westminster
The Vault at the Hard Rock Cafe in Park Lane
