Museums

7 guides

The God Osiris, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer

British Museum

See Egyptian mummies, mummified cats and the Lewis Chessmen for free, among artefacts from around the world.

An artist's impression from 2009 of the Cutty Sark lit up at night, its masts and rigging above a curved glass canopy round the hull

Cutty Sark

Explore three decks of a historic sailing ship, then walk underneath its hull in the glassed-over dry dock.

A small green steam engine marked "Metropolitan Water Board", with two men in overalls getting it ready beside the track

London Museum of Water and Steam

See huge pumping engines and ride a little steam train at this museum near Kew Bridge station.

Old double-decker buses and an old black taxi lined up under the museum's iron and glass roof

London Transport Museum

Pretend to drive a bus and a tube train, and play in the All Aboard area. Children free.

The blue whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling of the main hall, above the grand staircase

Natural History Museum

Dinosaurs! More dinosaurs! Other animals including the Big Blue Whale!

Looking down through the museum's open floors, with an orange banner reading "sciencemuseum 100, celebrating a century of science"

Science Museum

See the real Apollo 10 capsule, watch the Bubble Explorers show and try the hands-on galleries.

The museum's red-brick courtyard on a sunny day, with an oval paddling pool set in the lawn

Victoria & Albert Museum

Try on costumes in the Theatre gallery and paddle in the courtyard pool.

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