Museums and Art Galleries in London
Greater London is the home to many world-class museums and art galleries. Below you can find a list of museums & galleries that you can visit for free.|
1. Tate Modern is one of the most well known contemporary museums worldwide hosting a collection of international modernart from 1900 to the present day. Open Sunday – Thursday, Check what’s on here: |
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2. Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. Open Saturday – Thursday, Check what’s on here: |
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3. National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 to host a collection of over 175,000 portraits of famous British men and women from the 16th Century to the present day. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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4. The National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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5. The British Museum is widely considered to be one of the world’s greatest museums of human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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6. Natural History Museum is one of three larger museums in London. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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7. The Science Museum was founded in 1857 and is a major London tourist attraction. It holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including such famous items as Stephenson’s Rocket, Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive), the first jet engine, some of the earliest remaining steam engines, the first prototype of the 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now, and documentation of the first typewriter. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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8. The Victoria and Albert Museum was founded in 1852 and it is the world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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9. Saatchi Gallery is a gallery for contemporary art, opened in 1985. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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10. Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery founded in 1901 presenting an international programme of contemporary and 20th century art. Open Tuesday-Wednesday, Check what’s on here: |
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11. The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Prehistoric to the present day. It is primarily concerned with the social history of London and its inhabitants throughout history. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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12. RAF Museum is a museum located on the former Hendon Aerodrome, dedicated to the history of aviation and the British Royal Air Force. Open Monday-Friday, Check what’s on here: |
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13. Horniman Museum was opened in 1901 and specialises in anthropology, natural history and musical instruments and has a collection of 350,000 objects. The ethnography and music collections have Designated status. One of its most famous exhibits is the large collection of stuffed animals. It also has an aquarium noted for its unique layout. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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14. The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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15. The Guildhall Gallery was originally built in 1885 to house art collections from the City of London Corporation and the present collection consists of about 4,000 works, of which around 250 are on display at any one time. Open Monday-Saturday, Check what’s on here: |
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16. The Serpentine Gallery is an art gallery in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, central London. It focuses on modern and contemporary art. The exhibitions, architecture, education and public programmes attract approximately 750,000 visitors a year. Open daily, Check what’s on here: |
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17. Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, South London. England’s first purpose-built public art gallery, it was designed by Regency architect Sir John Soane and opened to the public in 1817. The gallery houses one of the country’s finest collections of Old Masters, especially rich in French, Italian and Spanish Baroque paintings and in British portraits from Tudor times to the 19th century. Open Tuesday-Sunday, Check what’s on here: |
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| 18. The Photographers’ Gallery is the largest public gallery in London dedicated to photography.For Opening hours check here:Check what’s on here: ENTRY IS FREE |
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19. Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It contains galleries, a theatre, two cinemas, a bookshop and a bar. Open Wednesday, Check what’s on here: |
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