The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum traces its roots to the middle of the eighteenth century with the establishment of the British Museum in Bloomsbury. The British Museum housed the collection of Sir Hans Sloane 1660‐1753, a prominent London physician and collector. Sloane's collection was extremely varied, including everything from…
Distance: 14.4 miles away

Science Museum

The Science Museum is the world's pre‐eminent science museum. It houses outstanding collections relating to science, technology and medicine, and is one of the most prestigious and respected organisations dedicated to the promotion of public science and technology. Our collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological, engineering…
Distance: 14.5 miles away

Victoria and Albert Museum

V&A South Kensington is the world's greatest museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. Discover 3000 years' worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings.The new Architecture…
Distance: 14.5 miles away

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum offers a glimpse of how the original medieval real tennis, has now become a multi‐million dollar professional sport, played all over the world.In the special exhibition area, the costume gallery charts some of the radical changes that have occurred in just over a century…
Distance: 9.9 miles away

Brooklands Museum

The Birthplace of British Motorsport and Aviation. From the very first attempts to fly in Britain through an exceptionally varied cavalcade of aircraft, Brooklands, the famous aviation site at Weybridge in Surrey, has witnessed and realised a greater range of aeronautical technology than anywhere else in the…
Distance: 11.3 miles away

Gatwick Aviation Museum

This Aviation Museum has a unique collection of British Aircraft from the golden age of British aircraft manufacture. From the end of WWII until the 1970's British aircraft designers produced some of the most innovative and advanced aircraft of the day. In this collection there are examples from…
Distance: 9.5 miles away

London Bus Museum

London Bus Museum is pleased to welcome you on board a bus journey that has taken 100 years.Have you ever wondered what happened to all those wonderful old buses that ran in London and which you only now see in old films and books Well, the good news…
Distance: 11.4 miles away

Museum of Garden History

The Museum of Garden History was founded in 1977 as the world's first museum dedicated to the history of gardens and gardening. The museum collections fall into 3 main categories; tools, ephemera and library. The tool collection is one of the finest on display. The…
Distance: 14.9 miles away

National Army Museum

The National Army Museum is the British Army's own museum. It is the only museum to tell the story of the Army as a whole from Agincourt in the Fifteenth Century to peace‐keeping in the Twenty‐first Century.The National Army Museum in Chelsea houses some of Britain's finest military…
Distance: 14.1 miles away

Reigate Priory Museum

Reigate Priory is a grade 1 listed building set in 65 acres of open parkland with a pond, woodland and playing fields only a few hundred yards from the centre of Reigate town, which is situated at the foot of the North Downs. There are seats within the…
Distance: 3.8 miles away

Teddy Bear Museum

We are a world famous teddy bear museum and shop located in a heritage 16th century building in the heart of Shakespeare's Stratford, England. Famous guests include the first television Paddington a gift from Michael Bond, Pudsey Bear from the BBC's Children in Need, Roger de Courcey's…
Distance: 9.1 miles away

Twickenham Stadium

Since the birth of the Rugby Football Union in 1871, a significant collection of artefacts has been collected. Minute books, match programmes, tickets and fascinating gifts from other Unions. Over the course of a century, the collection built up to such a level that in 1972 the RFU…
Distance: 12.5 miles away

Horniman Museum

The Horniman has a unique range of exhibitions, events and activities which illustrate the cultural and natural world. Our collections of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments provide the inspiration for our programme of permanent and temporary exhibitions and events and activities.The Horniman has three main collections, World…
Distance: 12.6 miles away

Leighton House Museum

Leighton House Museum is the former studio‐house of the great Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton 1830‐1896. Located on the edge of London's Holland Park, the house is one of the most extraordinary buildings of the nineteenth century. Leighton was planning the construction of his house from 1864…
Distance: 14.5 miles away

Musical Museum

During a visit to the Museum you will experience the fascinating world of automatic musical instruments, designed to provide music at the flick of a switch or at the turn of handle in the days before electronics and microphones.While you are at the Museum sounds from the past…
Distance: 14 miles away

Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum

The museum tells the social history of the county regiment over three centuries; the daily life of the soldier and his family around the world. Varied collection of military equipment and material relating to the Royal Norfolk Regiment and its soldiers includes archive. The Regiment…
Distance: 12.6 miles away

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