Dr Samuel Johnson famously said: “…if a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” And judging by the list of London museums set out below he was right.
My new project is to visit and blog about every museum in London. Ambitious I know. I have already visited quite a few; in fact I thought I had done a reasonable job over my years of living in London in getting out and about to the museums. But the list below reveals I have barely scratched the surface of London’s wealth of museums.
Have I missed any London museums off my list? Please let me know…
National Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
Victoria & Albert
Natural History Museum
Science Museum
Museum of the Docklands
The Wallace Collection
Leighton House
The British Museum
The Design Museum
The Imperial War Museum
The London Transport Museum
National Maritime Museum
Queen’s House
Royal Observatory
The Fan Museum
The Rangers House
The Sherlock Holmes Museum
The John Soanes Museum
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
The Cartoon Museum
The Geffrye Museum
Dennis Severs House
Kirkaldy Testing Museum
The Old Operating Theatre
Churchill War Rooms
Firepower: The Royal Artillery Museum
The Guards Museum
HSM Belfast
Household Cavalry Museum
National Army Museum
Royal Airforce Museum
Bank of England Museum
Horniman Museum and Gardens
V&A Museum of Childhood
Alexander Fleming Museum, St Mary’s Hospital
Apsley House, The Wellington Museum
Benjamin Franklin House
Barts Pathology Museum
Cabinet War Rooms
Charles Dickens Museum
Dr Johnson’s House
Clink Prison Museum
Chelsea Museum
Burgh House, Hampstead Museum
Cinema Museum
Florence Nightingale Museum
Fashion & Textile Museum
Grant Museum of Zoology
Handel House Museum
Guildhall Clockmakers’ Museum
Freud Museum
Garden Museum
Golden Hinde
Ham House and Gardens
Fitzroy House
Jewish Museum
Kelmscott House
Kew Bridge Steam Museum
Little Holland House
London Canal Museum
London Film Museum
London Sewing Machine Museum
Marlborough House
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
Museum of Freemasonry
Museum of Rugby
Museum of the Order of St John
Musical Museum
Ragged School Museum
Royal Academy of Music Museum
Smythson Stationery Museum
The Brunel Museum
The Foundling Museum
The Hunterian Museum
The Magic Circle Museum
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Vestry House Museum
The William Morris Gallery
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
The Cuming Museum
The British Postal Museum
The British Dental Association Museum
Pollock’s Toy Museum
