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London Museums and Art Galleries with Free Entry
My family tree has been traced back to the early Kings of England from the 7th Century AD. This has given me an interest in English History which is great fun to research. I am a direct descendent of Sir Christopher Wren and have many ancestors from London. People from outside England believe that London is an expensive place to visit. This is a fallacy. London’s 240 major museums and art galleries offer free admission. Here’s a list of the best of the big names you can visit for free all year round. There are lots of free museums and galleries in London, from the large-scale to the single room type. This list also focuses on the best of the small free London museums that are certainly worth a visit.
Bank of England Museum
The Bank of England Museum tells the story of the Bank of England from its foundation in 1694 to its role today as the United Kingdom’s central bank.
British Museum
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Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery is displayed in Somerset House, a stunning 18th century Neoclassical palace. The Courtauld Gallery’s art collection covers the 14th century up to today.
Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery – Free on Mondays
The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery at Somerset House in London is free every Monday from 10am to 2pm.
Geffrye Museum
The Geffrye Museum in east London gives an insight into how Londoners have lived over the years. It’s a museum of English domestic interiors and has room sets from 1600 right up to today.
Grant Museum of Zoology
The Grant Museum of Zoology has about 55,000 specimens, covering the whole Animal Kingdom. It’s small and spooky and lots of fun, and it’s free so you can pop in regularly.
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HMS Belfast – 258,941
Horniman Museum
Hunterian Museum
The Hunterian Museum is at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. The Museum is inspired by the life and work of the surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793).
Imperial War Museum
The Imperial War Museum is unique in its coverage of conflicts, from the First World War to the present day. It seeks to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and how it affects our lives.
L. Ron Hubbard’s Fitzroy House
Fitzroy House, in the 1950s, was the London home and office of L. Ron Hubbard the founder of Dianetics and Scientology. The public can visit for free and see the restored building and exhibits of his life and works.
Library and Museum of Freemasonry
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry in London contains an extensive collection of objects with Masonic decoration including pottery and porcelain, glassware, silver, furniture and clocks, jewels and regalia.
Museum of Childhood
Find out about the Museum of Childhood including history, contact details, and a review.
Museum in Docklands
Museum of London
National Army Museum
The National Army Museum has five floors of exhibits showing the history of the British Army and its impact on others. There are four permanent gallery displays and an extensive program of exhibitions, events, and activities.
National Gallery Visitor Information
The National Gallery in London takes up the entire north side of Trafalgar Square. Its masterpieces include: Botticelli, Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Cezanne, Hogarth, and Gainsborough. Here’s all the information you need to plan your visit.
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is one of the big three museums in South Kensington, London. It is a wonderful Victorian building housing the weird and wonderful of the natural world. World famous for its dinosaur skeletons.
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National Maritime Museum – 1,765,814
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National Portrait Gallery – 1,645,680
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has 80,000 objects but only has space to display a small percentage. They welcome children and have activities available.
Prince Henry’s Room and Samuel Pepys Exhibition
Prince Henry’s Room in Fleet Street is one of the few houses in London which survived the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Royal Institution
It’s free to visit so find what to see at the Royal Institution in London.
Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery moved to its new home in Chelsea in 2008. The 70,000 sq.ft. gallery in the Duke of York HQ building on King’s Road, Chelsea offers free admission to all shows as part of the Saatchi Gallery’s aim to bring contemporary art to the widest audience possible. Plus you’re allowed to photos everywhere in the building.
Science Museum
The Science Museum was founded in 1857 with objects shown at the Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace. The permanent displays are free and they have exceptional temporary exhibitions for all the family.
Sir. John Soane’s Museum
Sir John Soane was an architect and avid collector of antiquities and art. He merged 3 houses on Lincoln’s Inn Fields to be his home and museum which he left to the nation in 1837.
Smythson of Bond Street
Smythson of Bond Street is a luxury stationers and leather goods retailer and their main store is on Bond Street in London. At the back of the store there’s a small museum, which though small, is worth seeing.
Tate Britain Visitor Information
Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to today. Each room is organized around a theme. Displays change regularly.
Tate Modern Guide
Tate Modern is the UK national gallery of modern art from 1900 onwards. Tate Modern is housed on a converted power station next to the River Thames, opposite St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Theatre Museum
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V&A Museum of Childhood
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Victoria and Albert Museum
The Vault
The Vault is the rock memorabilia museum in the shop at the Hard Rock Cafe in London.
The Wallace Collection
The Wallace Collection in London is a national museum displaying eighteenth and nineteenth century European paintings and French objets d’art.
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection is a modern museum and gallery bringing together science and art. Sir Henry Wellcome enthusiastically collected over a million medical objects and Wellcome Collection displays as many as possible to help visitors discover more about the development of medicine through the ages and across cultures.
Whitechapel Bell Foundry Museum
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry made the Big Ben bell for the Houses of Parliament and the original Liberty Bell. They have a free museum you can visit on weekdays to find out more.
List of other Museums and Galleries with Free Entrance
Age Exchange Reminiscence Centre
Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
All Hallows-by-the-Tower Crypt Museum
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
Apsley House
Arsenal Football Club Museum
Baden-Powell House Exhibition
Bank of England Museum
Banqueting House
Barbican Art Gallery
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
Brent Museum
British Airways Museum Collection
Britain At War Experience
British Dental Association Museum
British Library
British Museum
British Music Experience
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
Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies
Brunel Museum
BT Archives
Buckingham Palace
Building Centre Gallery
Burgh House & Hampstead Museum
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 War Rooms
Clarence House
Clink Prison Museum
Clockmakers’ Museum
Clown Museum and archive
College of Arms
Couper Collection
Courtauld Gallery
Crime Museum
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
Dali Universe
Danson House
De Morgan Centre
Dennis Severs’ House
Design Museum
Dr Johnson’s House
Dorich House
Drapers Company Collections
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Eastbury Manor House
Eastside Community Heritage
Eltham Palace
Erith Museum
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
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
Galton Collection
Garden Museum
Garrick’s Temple
Geffrye Museum
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
Hackney Museum
Ham House
Hampstead Museum
Hampton Court
Handel House Museum
Harrow Museum
The Hayward
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
Imperial War Museum
Inns of Court and City Yeomanry Museum
Institute of Archaeology Collections
Island History Trust
Islington Museum
Jewel Tower
Jewish Military Museum and Memorial Room
Jewish Museum (Camden)
Jewish Museum (Finchley)
Keats’ House
Kennel Club Art Gallery
Kensington Palace
Kenwood House
Kew Bridge Steam Museum
Kew Gardens Museum No.1 and Marianne North Gallery
Kew Transport Museum
Kingston Museum
Kirkaldy Testing Museum
Leighton House Museum
Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Linnean Society Collections
Linley Sambourne House
Little Holland House, Carshalton
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
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 of Croydon
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
Museum of Immigration and Diversity
Museum of London
Museum of London Docklands
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
National Archives
National Army Museum
National Gallery
National Maritime Museum
National Portrait Gallery
Natural History Museum
The Newsroom – Guardian and Observer Archive and Visitor Centre
North Woolwich Old Station Museum
Old Operating Theatre
Old Speech Room Gallery, Harrow School
Orleans House Gallery
Osterley Park
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Pitzhanger Manor
Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
Pollock’s Toy Museum
Prince Henry’s Room
Pumphouse Educational Museum
Pushkin House
Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge
Queen’s Gallery
Queen’s House
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
Royal Military School of Music Museum
Royal Mint Sovereign Gallery
Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum
Royal Philatelic Collection
St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum
St Paul’s Cathedral Crypt Museum
Saatchi Gallery
Salvation Army International Heritage Centre
Science Museum
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
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Twinings Museum
Two Willow Road
Twickenham Museum
Type Museum
UCL Collections
Valence House Museum
Vestry House Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
V&A Museum of Childhood
Wallace Collection
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 Museum
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
Young’s Brewery
As so many Famous events happened and Sports were created in England and the rest of the British Isles over the centuries, I thought it would be a good idea to tell the various stories in my various articles of the many English and British Icons from the Anglo Saxon times to the present day England.
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My other website is called Directory of British Icons: http://fabprints.webs.com
To visit the list and links to my other Blogg articles: http://bloggs.resourcez.com
The Chinese call Britain The Island of Hero’s which I think sums up what we British are all about.
Copyright © 2010 Paul Hussey. All Rights Reserved.
Extra video: A ‘freaky’ tour around Kensington Palace
