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Museums
Visiting London’s museums and galleries can be an experience for the senses as much as for the brain and London has some of the best places to stimulate both. London is home to some of the most interesting museums in Britain, and indeed the world. There are so many excellent museums and galleries in London, it’s hard to know where to start.
The British Museum
Free to the world since 1753, the British Museum is a fascinating collection of displays and special exhibitions on the works of man from prehistory to the present day. Permanent exhibits include antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, as well as Prehistory. There’s usually a charge to enter special events.
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
Located in the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, this museum has recently been completely redesigned and it now offers a stunning multi-dimensional tour of the traditions, triumphs, sights and sounds that have made Wimbledon the most coveted title in tennis. Highlights include a 3-D ‘ghost’ of John McEnroe and an insight into the science of the game that uses the same camera techniques as in the film ‘The Matrix’.
The Science Museum
See, touch and experience the major scientific advances of the last 300 years at the Science Museum, the largest museum of its kind in the world with over 40 galleries, and 2,000 hands on exhibits. You can step into the future in the innovative Wellcome Wing dedicated to contemporary science and technology. Change your sex and age in 30 seconds, and create your own identity profile to store on your own website.
National Gallery
Located on the north side of Trafalgar Square, you could spend all day exploring this world-class gallery. Among thousands of inspirational treasures you’ll find works by Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Turner, Renoir, Cezanne and Van Gogh, as well as special exhibitions, lectures, video and audio-visual programmes, guided tours and holiday events for children and adults. The National Gallery's aim is to encourage the public throughout the United Kingdom - and beyond - to value and enjoy its pictures. The Gallery is working with partners in museums around the country to support the increasing role the pictures play at all levels of public education, lifelong learning and enjoyment.
Major National Gallery pictures are regularly on show in museums and galleries outside London as part of the Touring Exhibitions programme. The National Gallery has a partnership scheme with Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle to create a series of shared, annual exhibitions, which are chosen and planned jointly by staff from the three galleries.The shows tour to all three venues.
The National Gallery's collection is one among many fine collections of paintings in Britain, which provide an unrivalled resource for visitors of all ages.
The Gallery has been working with colleagues in over 200 museums throughout the country on the National Inventory Research Project. The first stage of the project has now been published online, the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings, gives public access to information about 8,000 pictures in collections throughout the UK. The National Gallery Library was established in 1869 with the purchase of the private library of some 2,000 volumes belonging to the late Sir Charles Eastlake. It currently contains over 75,000 printed volumes relevant to the study of the history of Western European painting from the 13th to the early 20th century. It is not a public library, but exists primarily to provide a service to National Gallery staff and to visiting academics, postgraduate research students and other scholars who cannot obtain the material they require
