Museums & galleries

Historic townhouse and museum of the Dukes of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner.

Museum celebrating Arsenal Football Club's history and achievements.

Free museum exploring the Bank of England's history and the UK economy.

Local museum with exhibits on Barnet's history and research archives.

Museum in Benjamin Franklin's former London residence, 1757–1774.

Archive and heritage centre celebrating African and Caribbean British history.

A restored 17th-century Jacobean manor house with adjoining park and lake.

World's largest museum of human history, art and culture in Bloomsbury.

Museum housed in the historic engine building of the world's first underwater tunnel.

Historic house in Hampstead with an attached museum.

Historic Chelsea home of 19th-century writer Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane.

The former home of Charles Dickens in a Georgian townhouse.

Neo-Palladian villa with one of England's earliest landscape gardens.

Medieval prison museum in historic Southwark.

Roman villa with preserved rooms and underfloor heating systems.

Victorian sewage pumping station with ornamental cast ironwork architecture.

A historic 1869 clipper ship preserved in dry dock at Greenwich.

Georgian house recreated as a Huguenot silk weaver's home time capsule.

Museum showcasing product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design.

18th-century home of writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

A Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house open to visitors most of the year.

Museum telling the history of Eel Pie Island and its cultural significance.

Museum of fashion and textile design in a vibrant building.

A 17th-century merchant's house with walled gardens in Hampstead.

A 1620s manor house museum in Enfield, north London.

Museum telling the story of Britain's first home for abandoned children.

Former bishop's palace turned museum on the Thames.

Britain's only museum dedicated to the art, history and design of gardens.

Medical pathology museum with human specimens at King's College London.

University natural history museum with rare zoological specimens and glass models.

Local history museum exploring Hackney's past and immigration.

Museum dedicated to Baroque composer Handel and rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix.

Local history museum for the London Borough of Harrow.

Local museum showcasing the history of Havering's five towns in a former brewery.

Museum celebrating the art and inventions of William Heath Robinson.

Royal Navy light cruiser moored on the Thames as a museum ship.

Museum with anthropology, natural history, and musical instrument collections.

Museum of natural history, anthropology, and musical instruments with extensive taxidermied animals.

A public museum exploring the history of Islington.

Historic steam engines from the 1920s at a London waterworks.

Free museum in Kingston upon Thames with local history and photography exhibits.

Museum of historic testing machines in a Victorian industrial building.

A museum dedicated to the history of London's canals.

Museum documenting London's firefighting history since 1666.

Museum exploring the River Thames, Port of London, and dock history.

Museum of historic steam engines and water pumping machinery from the 19th century.

Wax museum featuring famous figures, historical characters, and film stars.

Museum exploring the history of British postal services and mail delivery.

Georgian villa that inspired English country house design.

Historic Victorian pumping station with a preserved steam beam engine.

Museum preserving the history of London's Metropolitan Police Service.

A museum exploring consumer culture history from Victorian times to today.

Museum showcasing Richmond's medieval to modern history in the Old Town Hall.

Free museum exploring home life from 1600 to the present day.

Museum exploring the history of the Order of St John from the Crusades to today.

Local history museum dedicated to Wimbledon's past and heritage.

National home of British Army history and heritage.

Maritime museum exploring Britain's naval history and seafaring heritage.

A museum displaying 80 million natural history specimens including famous dinosaur skeletons.

Historic observatory on the Prime Meridian with astronomy and navigation history.

Major free museum featuring science and technology exhibits.

London museum dedicated to British cartoons, caricatures and comic strips.

Museum of cinema history and memorabilia in a former workhouse.

A museum dedicated to the history and heritage of the postal service.

A museum of curiosities, art, and natural history objects in Hackney.

Artist-run reading room and project space on a railway station platform.

Museum exploring London's transport history and heritage in Covent Garden.

Storage site of historic transport artefacts open on scheduled visitor days.