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London Museums
: British Museum
One of the best
collections of classical antiquities in Europe, this grand institution is also
home to a new architectural masterpiece: The Great Court. Come and gaze at
Egyptian mummies, The Rosetta Stone and Ancient Greek jewellery made of gold.
The British Museum is free to all visitors. A charge may be made for temporary
exhibitions.
Address : Great Russell Street,London, WC1B 3DG
Phone: +44 0207 7323 8299
Web: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road
London Museums
: Bank of England Museum (The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street)
This Museum is housed
within the bank and tracks back the bank’s history up to 1694. Displays include
gold bars date from ancient times, bank notes, history includes a mob attack on
bank during the golden riots in 1780 and interactive display to see how bank
notes are created.
Address : Threadneedle Street
Phone: +44 (0)171 601 5545
Web: www.bankofengland.co.uk
Nearest tube: Bank
London
Museums : Bramah Museum
Dedicated to the art of
tea and coffee making. You can taste the products and even buy them in the
museum shop and café. Admission cost needs to pay.
Address : 40 Southwark Street,London SE1 1UN
Phone: +44 (0)020 7403 5650
Web: www.bramahmuseum.co.uk
London
Museums : Fan Museum
The Fan Museum is the
first and only museum in the world devoted in its entirety to all aspects of
the ancient art and craft of the fan. Displays history of fans from 11th
century , probably this is the only museum of its kind in the world
Address : 12 Crooms Hill Greenwich
Phone: 44 (0)20 8305 1441
Web: www.fan-museum.org
London
Museums : Florence Nightingale Museum
Florence Nightingale
founded the first school of nursing at St. Thomas' Hospital in 1860. The museum
contains her personal effects, clothing, books and letters, furniture, as well
as mementoes from the Crimean War in which she served. Address : 2 Lambeth
Palace Road London
Phone: +44 (0)20 7620 0374
Web: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
Nearest tube:Westminster, Waterloo
London
Museums : Geffrye Museum
Shows the changing
style of the English domestic interior in a series of period rooms from 1600 to
the present day.
Address : Kingsland Road
Phone: +44 (0)171 739 9893
Web: www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
Nearest Tube:Old Street, Liverpool Street
London
Museums : Madame Tussaud’s
World Famous wax museum
which hosts replicas of hundreds of celebrities and famous people.
Address : West End, Marylebone Road. NW1 5LR
Phone: 0870 400 3000
Web: www.madame-tussauds.com
Nearest Tube: Baker Street.
London
Museums : Museum Of London
Exhibits cover more
than 2000 years of London History.
Address : : 150, London Wall Street
Web: www.museumoflondon.org.uk
Phone: 020 7600 3699
London
Museums : Natural History Museum
This is the Britain's
national museum for natural history. Exhibits include the blue Whale exhibit,
the mammal balcony, dinosaurs and moonlit rainforest in the ecology gallery.
Address : Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD
Web: www.nhm.ac.uk Phone: 020 7942 5011
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