London Museums

Gallery
The Museum of London
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
The Tate Gallery
The

Science Museum

of archaeology and ethnography and the national library, is the

richest of its kind in the world.
It was founded in 1753 by an act of Parliament. Its nucleus was founded the priceless collection of manuscripts of Sir Robert Cotton, and Sir Hans Sloane, who left his varied collections to the nation upon his death in 1753.

antiquities and natural history items the extensive library was added.

The

sculpture of W. Shakespeare

are divided into five departments covering botanic, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology

and zoology.
The museum’s collections were built up round the specimens collected by Sir Hans Sloane.
The continued expansion of the collections in the British Museum meant that a separate natural history museum was required. It was opened in 1881.

you’ll see on entering the Central Hall is the massive

skeleton of Diplodocus – one of the largest creatures that ever lived.

Western European painting, comprising more than 2000 pictures dating from

the late 13th to the early 20th century.
The Gallery was founded in 1824

The National Gallery

are represented by masterpieces: Leonardo and Raphael, Titian, Bellini, Caravaggio,

Rubens, Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Turner, Constable, Reynolds, Monet, Degas, Manet, etc

collection constitutes a unique
record of the men and women

who created the history and culture of the nation. The Gallery houses over 9000 works.

The National Portrait Gallery

the Tudors and their predecessors.
The collection includes such

treasure as Holbein’s Cartoon of Henry VII, portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, the portrait of Shakespeare and celebrated images of Charles I, Charles II and his mistress.

Portrait of a young man by Botticelly

The National Portrait Gallery

city museum in the world. It is dedicated to the

story of London and its people. Where else could you see a Roman bikini, an old Selfridges’s lift, an 18th-century debtor’s prison, as well as royal treasures?

The Museum of London

Lord Mayor’s State Coach, stand in

Roman kitchen, and Relieve the Great
Fire of London, and look down on the city’s Roman Wall.

The Museum of London

the decorative arts in the world. Its collections, housed in

magnificent Victorian buildings, include sculpture, furniture, fashion and textiles, paintings, silver, glass, jewellery, books from Britain and all over the world.
The Museum was opened in 1857 at Marlborough House Additional buildings were designed by Sir Aston Webb.
The foundation stone was laid by Queen Victoria in 1899 and the Museum re-opened, in 1909 as the V&A.

in one:
British art from the 16th century to around

1900,
and international modern art from the Impressionists until now.
Opened in 1897, the Gallery was named after the sugar millionaire
Sir Henry Tate who gave his Victorian paintings and paid for the building.

The Tate Gallery

Gogh Sunflowers
The British collection includes masterpieces by Hogarth,
Gainsborough, Reynolds,

Constable,
William Blake and Turner.
The Modern collection includes highlights by Monet,
Pissaro and Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso.

from the outside. Its galleries are full of objects, models

which demonstrate a particular subject in science of engineering.

The Science Museum

computers, domestic appliences, aeroplanes, the world’s first locomotive and George

Stephenson’s Rocket.

The Science Museum