Museums in London, guide to finding them

Museums in London tend to cluster in the South Kensington Area. They were developed from the profits of the Great Exhibition of 1851

• Victoria and Albert - houses the national collection of applied arts, with treasures from all over the world. It has an immense renaissance style facade
• Natural History - a Romanesque Palace, built in 1880 and stands opposite the V & A in Exhibition Road
• Science - hands on science, very popular with school parties
• Geological

Other museums scattered further afield include

• National Gallery - in Trafalgar Sq
• Imperial War - opposite the cathedral in Southwark
• Apsley House - all about Wellington at Hyde park Corner
• British Museum- in Bloomsbury
• Tate Gallery - modern art at Millbank on the Thames
• Queens Gallery - at Buckingham Palace
• Soames Museum - Lincoln's Inn Fields
• Canal Museum - all about canals

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Museums in London