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Name	Category	Location

Apsley House (Wellington Museum) Be the First to Rate It Map \| For Hyde Park Corner read "hero's corner"; even in the subway...	Museums / Galleries	St. James's

Bankside Gallery Be the First to Rate It Map \| Two artistic societies -- the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

British Museum Member Rating: 5.0 Map \| With a facade like a great temple, this celebrated treasure house...	Museums / Galleries	Bloomsbury

Cabinet War Rooms & Churchill Museum Member Rating: 4.8 Map \| It was from this small warren of underground rooms -- beneath...	Museums / Galleries	Westminster

The Clink Prison Be the First to Rate It Map \| Giving rise to the term "clink," or jail, this institution was...	Museums / Galleries, Jails	South Bank

Courtauld Institute Gallery Member Rating: 5.0 Map \| One of London's most beloved art collections, the Courtauld is...	Museums / Galleries	Covent Garden

Dalí Universe Be the First to Rate It Map \| Here is Europe's most comprehensively arranged collection by...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

Design Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| This was the first museum in the world to elevate everyday design...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

Dickens House Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| This is the only one of the many London houses Charles Dickens...	Museums / Galleries	Bloomsbury

Dr. Johnson's House Member Rating: 3.2 Map \| This is where Samuel Johnson lived between 1746 and 1759, compiling...	Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions	The City

Dulwich Picture Gallery Be the First to Rate It A highly distinguished small gallery, the Dulwich has impressive...	Museums / Galleries	Southwark

Fan Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| In two newly restored houses dating from the 1820s, opposite...	Museums / Galleries	Greenwich

Fenton House Be the First to Rate It Map \| This is Hampstead's oldest surviving house. Now a National Trust...	Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions	Hampstead

Florence Nightingale Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Here you can learn all about the founder of the first school...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

Freud Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| The father of psychoanalysis lived here for a year, between his...	Museums / Galleries	Hampstead

Geffrye Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| An antidote to the grand, high-society town-house interiors of...	Museums / Galleries	East End

Handel House Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| The former home of the composer, where he lived for more than...	Museums / Galleries	Mayfair

Hayward Gallery Be the First to Rate It Map \| The gray, windowless bunker tucked behind the South Bank Centre...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

Imperial War Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Despite its title, this museum of 20th-century warfare does not...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

Jewish Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| This museum tells a comprehensive history of the Jews in London...	Museums / Galleries	Camden Town

Keats House Be the First to Rate It Map \| Here you can see the plum tree under which the young Romantic...	Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions	Hampstead

London Canal Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Here, in a former ice-storage house, you can learn about the...	Museums / Galleries	Camden Town

London Dungeon Be the First to Rate It Map \| Here's the goriest, grisliest, most gruesome attraction in town...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

London's Transport Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Normally housed in the old Flower Market at the southeast corner...	Museums / Galleries	Covent Garden

Lord's Cricket Ground & Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| If you can't manage to lay your hands on tickets for a cricket...	Museums / Galleries	St. John's Wood

Madame Tussauds Member Rating: 1.0 Map \| One of London's busiest sights, this is nothing more and nothing...	Museums / Galleries	Regent's Park

Museum of Garden History Be the First to Rate It Map \| The first of its kind in the world, the museum is set in St...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

Museum of London Be the First to Rate It Map \| If there's one place to get the history of London sorted out...	Museums / Galleries	The City

National Gallery Member Rating: 5.0 Map \| You could spend a day perusing one of the largest and best collections...	Museums / Galleries	Westminster

National Maritime Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Following a millennial facelift, one of Greenwich's star attractions...	Museums / Galleries	Greenwich

National Portrait Gallery Member Rating: 4.2 Map \| An idiosyncratic collection that presents a potted history of...	Museums / Galleries	Covent Garden

Natural History Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Architect Alfred Waterhouse had relief panels scattered across...	Museums / Galleries	South Kensington

Old Operating Theatre Museum Be the First to Rate It All that remains of one of England's oldest hospitals, which...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art Be the First to Rate It Map \| This collection, belonging to the University of London, is dominated...	Museums / Galleries	Bloomsbury

The Queen's Gallery Member Rating: 3.6 Map \| The former chapel at the south side of Buckingham Palace is now...	Museums / Galleries	St. James's

Royal Academy of Arts Be the First to Rate It Map \| Burlington House was built in the Palladian style for the Earl...	Museums / Galleries	Mayfair

Royal Mews Member Rating: 4.0 Map \| Fairy-tale gold-and-glass coaches and sleek Rolls-Royce state...	Museums / Galleries	St. James's

Saatchi Gallery Be the First to Rate It Map \| Charles Saatchi, who made his fortune building an advertising...	Museums / Galleries	Chelsea

Science Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| This, the third of the great South Kensington museums, stands...	Museums / Galleries	South Kensington

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Be the First to Rate It Map \| A spectacular theater, this is a replica of Shakespeare's open-roof...	Museums / Galleries, Arts / Performance Venues	South Bank

Sherlock Holmes Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Outside Baker Street station, by the Marylebone Road exit, is...	Museums / Galleries	Regent's Park

Sir John Soane's Museum Member Rating: 5.0 Map \| Sir John (1753-1837), architect of the Bank of England, bequeathed...	Museums / Galleries	Bloomsbury

Somerset House Be the First to Rate It Map \| An old royal palace once stood on the site, but the 18th-century...	Museums / Galleries	Covent Garden

Tate Britain Member Rating: 5.0 Map \| The gallery, which first opened in 1897, funded by the sugar...	Museums / Galleries	Westminster

Tate Modern Member Rating: 4.2 Map \| This structure was built as a power station in the 1930s, and...	Museums / Galleries	South Bank

Thames Barrier Visitors' Centre Be the First to Rate It Map \| Learn what comes between London and its famous river -- a futuristic-looking...	Museums / Galleries	Greenwich

Theatre Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| This mostly belowground museum aims to re-create the excitement...	Museums / Galleries	Covent Garden

Tower of London Member Rating: 4.8 Map \| Nowhere else does London's history come to life so vividly as...	Museums / Galleries, Castles / Palaces	The City

V&A Museum of Childhood Be the First to Rate It This is the East End outpost of the Victoria & Albert Museum...	Museums / Galleries	East End

Victoria & Albert Museum Member Rating: 5.0 Map \| Recognizable by the copy of Victoria's imperial crown on the...	Museums / Galleries	South Kensington

Wallace Collection Member Rating: 5.0 Map \| Assembled by four generations of Marquesses of Hertford and given...	Museums / Galleries	Mayfair

White Cube Be the First to Rate It Map \| The original White Cube had cramped quarters in genteel St. James's...	Museums / Galleries	Hoxton

Whitechapel Art Gallery Be the First to Rate It Map \| Housed in a spacious 1901 art nouveau building, this has an international...	Museums / Galleries	East End

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