List of museums in London
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There are over 240 museums in London, England, a number of them in Museum Mile. The government publishes visitor figures for its own establishments.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[edit] A
- Age Exchange Reminiscence Centre
- Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
- All Hallows-by-the-Tower Undercroft Museum
- Amora
- Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
- Apsley House – the Duke of Wellington's London house
- Arsenal Football Club Museum
[edit] B
- Baden-Powell House Exhibition
- Bank of England Museum
- Banqueting House
- Barnet Museum
- Benjamin Franklin House
- Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art
- Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons Museum
- Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum
- Bexley Museum
- Black Cultural Archives
- Boston Manor House
- Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum
- Britain At War Experience
- British Dental Association Museum
- British Library
- British Museum – national collection of antiquities
- British Optical Association Museum
- British Postal Museum and Archive
- British Red Cross Museum and Archives
- Bromley Museum
- Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail
- Bruce Castle Museum
- Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies
- Brunel Engine House
- BT Archives
- Buckingham Palace
- Building Centre Gallery
[edit] C
- Canada House Gallery
- Carlyle's House
- Cartoon Museum
- Centre for Recent Drawing
- Charles Dickens Museum
- Chartered Insurance Institute Museum
- Chelsea Physic Garden
- Chiswick House
- Church Farmhouse Museum
- Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
- Clarence House
- Clink Prison Museum
- Clockmakers' Museum
- College of Arms
- Couper Collection
- Courtauld Gallery – old masters and impressionists
- Crofton Roman Villa
- Crossness Pumping Station
- Crown Jewels
- Croydon Lifetimes Museum
- Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
- Crystal Palace Museum
- Cuming Museum
- Cutty Sark Museum
[edit] D
- Dali Universe
- Danson House
- De Morgan Centre
- Dennis Severs' House
- Design Museum
- Dr Johnson's House
- Dorich House
- Drapers Company Collections
- Dulwich Picture Gallery – collection of old masters
[edit] E
- Eastbury Manor House (NT)
- Eastside Community Heritage
- Eltham Palace
- Erith Museum
- Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
[edit] F
- Fan Museum
- Fashion and Textile Museum
- Fenton House
- Firepower: The Royal Artillery Museum
- Florence Nightingale Museum
- Forty Hall Museum
- Foundling Museum
- Freud Museum
- Fulham Palace
[edit] G
- Galton Collection
- Garrick's Temple
- Geffrye Museum
- Gilbert Collection – decorative arts
- Golden Hinde
- Grange Museum of Community History
- Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
- Great Ormond Street Hospital Museum and Archive
- Greenwich Heritage Centre
- Greenwich Hospital (London)
- Greenwich Visitor Centre
- Guards' Museum
- Guide Heritage Centre
- Guildhall Art Gallery
- Guildhall Library
- Gunnersbury Park Museum
[edit] H
- Hackney Museum
- Ham House, London
- Hampstead Museum, at Burgh House
- Hampton Court – a former royal palace
- Handel House Museum
- Harrow Museum
- Hermitage Rooms
- HMS Belfast
- Hogarth's House
- Honeywood Heritage Centre
- Honourable Artillery Company Museum
- Horniman Museum
- House Mill Museum at Three Mills
- Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons
[edit] I
- The Museum of Immigration and Diversity
- Imperial War Museum – museum of warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries
- Inns of Court and City Yeomanry Museum
- Institute of Archaeology Collections
- Island History Trust
- Islington Museum
[edit] J
- Jewel Tower
- Jewish Military Museum and Memorial Room
- Jewish Museum (Camden)
- Jewish Museum (Finchley)
[edit] K
- Keats' House
- Kennel Club Art Gallery
- Kensington Palace
- Kenwood House – mansion and collection of old masters
- Kew Bridge Steam Museum
- Kew Gardens Museum No.1 and Marianne North Gallery
- Kew Transport Museum
- Kingston Museum
- Kirkaldy Testing Museum
[edit] L
- Leighton House Museum
- Library and Museum of Freemasonry
- Linnean Society Collections
- Linley Sambourne House
- Little Holland House
- Livesey Museum for Children
- London Aquarium
- London Canal Museum
- London Dungeon
- London Fire Brigade Museum
- London Gas Museum
- London Motorcycle Museum
- London Sewing Machine Museum
- London Transport Museum
- London Zoo
[edit] M
- Madame Tussaud's London
- Magic Circle Museum
- Manor Park Museum
- Marble Hill House
- Markfield Beam Engine and Museum
- Marx Memorial Library
- MCC Museum
- Merton Heritage Centre
- Michael Faraday Museum
- Museum in Docklands
- Museum of Croydon
- Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
- Museum of Garden History
- Museum of Immigration and Diversity
- Museum of London – the history of London
- Museum of Performance
- Museum of Richmond
- Museum of Rugby
- Museum of the Order of St John
- Museum of Veterinary History
- Musical Museum
- Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
[edit] N
- National Archives
- National Army Museum
- National Gallery – national collection of Western painting to 1900
- National Maritime Museum
- National Museum of Childhood
- National Portrait Gallery
- Natural History Museum
- The Newsroom - Guardian and Observer Archive and Visitor Centre
- North Woolwich Old Station Museum
[edit] O
- Old Operating Theatre
- Old Speech Room Gallery, Harrow School
- Orleans House Gallery
- Osterley Park
[edit] P
- Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
- Pitzhanger Manor
- Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
- Pollock's Toy Museum
- Prince Henry's Room
- Pumphouse Educational Museum
[edit] Q
- Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge
- Queen's Gallery – exhibitions of items from the Royal Collection
- Queen's House – the first Palladian building in England
[edit] R
- Ragged School Museum
- Ranger's House (Wernher Collection)
- Red House
- Redbridge Museum
- Riesco Gallery
- Rose Theatre Exhibition
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Royal Air Force Museum
- Royal College of Music Archives and Museum of Instruments
- Royal College of Physicians Collections
- Royal Fusiliers Museum
- Royal Hospital Chelsea
- Royal Institute of British Architects Collections
- Royal Greenwich Observatory
- Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum
- Royal Mews – the Queen's stables
- Royal Military School of Music Museum
- Royal Mint Sovereign Gallery
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum
- Royal Philatelic Collection
[edit] S
- St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum
- St Paul's Cathedral Crypt Museum
- Saatchi Gallery – a collection of contemporary art
- Salvation Army International Heritage Centre
- Science Museum – national museum of science and technology
- Sherlock Holmes Museum
- Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition
- Sir John Soane's Museum
- Smythson Stationery Museum
- Somerset House
- South London Gallery
- Southside House
- Spencer House
- Stephens Collection
- Sutton House
[edit] T
- Tate Britain – national collection of British art
- Tate Modern – national collection of modern art
- Theatre Museum – national museum of the performing arts
- Tower Bridge
- Tower of London – fortress and former royal residence
- Twinings Museum
- Two Willow Road
- Twickenham Museum
- Type Museum
[edit] U
- UCL Collections – arts, ethnography, geology and science
[edit] V
- Valence House Museum
- Vestry House Museum
- Victoria and Albert Museum – national collection of applied arts
[edit] W
- Wallace Collection – old masters and decorative arts
- Wandle Industrial Museum
- Wandsworth Museum
- Wellcome Library
- Wellcome Collection
- Wellington Arch
- Wesley's Chapel and the Museum of Methodism
- West Ham United Museum
- Westminster Abbey Museums – venue of British royal coronations
- Westminster Dragoons Museum
- Whitechapel Gallery
- Whitehall, Cheam
- Whitewebbs Museum of Transport
- William Morris Gallery
- Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
- Wimbledon Society Museum of Local History
- Wimbledon Windmill Museum
- Women's Library
[edit] Y
[edit] Visitor figures
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) publishes monthly visitor figures [1] for the public sector museums and galleries which it sponsors, which include most of the leading museums in London. The most popular London museum in the private sector is The Sherlock Holmes Museum. The totals of the financial year to 31 March 2006 were as follows:
- Tate Modern and Tate Britain – 6,025,888 (see note)
- British Museum – 4,492,852
- National Gallery – 3,557,839
- Natural History Museum – 3,200,645
- Science Museum – 2,019,931
- Victoria and Albert Museum – 1,902,587
- National Portrait Gallery – 1,528,310
- National Maritime Museum – 1,493,042
- Imperial War Museum – 690,529
- Museum of London – 375,013
- Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms – 304,474
- Horniman Museum – 285,884
- HMS Belfast – 229,529
- Wallace Collection – 210,642
- Theatre Museum – 165,994
- V&A Museum of Childhood – 123,376
- Museum in Docklands – 98,183
- Sir John Soane's Museum – 81,534
- Geffrye Museum – 79,408
Note: Tate Modern and Tate Britain are on separate sites a considerable distance apart, but the DCMS only publishes a single combined visitor figure for them. Tate Modern is widely reported to attract the more visitors of the two, but it is not clear whether it received more visitors than the British Museum on its own.
