Places to Visit in London
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Attraction | Address | Website – information |
|---|---|---|
| London Hotels and Theatres | What’s on in London | |
| Museums | List of museums in London with addresses and Tel. No | http://www.worldartantiques.com/unitedkingdomMuseumsLondon.htm |
| Apsley House | 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London W1 Tel: 020 7499 5676 | Number One London |
| Bank of England Museum | Bartholomew Lane, London EC2 Tel: 020 7601 5545 | www.bankofengland.co.uk |
| Barbican Centre | Silk Street, London EC2 Tel: 020 7638 8891 | www.barbican.org.uk (if you wish to return with the back button double click fast) |
| BBC Experience | Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1 Tel: 0870 6030304 | www.bbc.co.uk (will open in a new window) |
| Big Ben | The Houses of Parliament, Parliament Square London SW1 | www.parliament.uk |
| Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum | Permanentely Closed | |
| Britain at War Experience | 64-66 Tooley Street, London SE1 Tel: 020 7403 3171 | http://www.britainatwar.co.uk |
| British Library | 96 Euston Road, London NW1 Tel: 020 7412 7332 | www.bl.uk |
| British Museum | Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG Tel: 020 7636 1555 | https://www.britishmuseum.org/www.british-museum.ac.uk |
| The Brunel Museum | Brunel Museum Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, London SE16 4LF Telephone: 020 7231 3840 (answer phone out of hours) | www.brunel-museum.org.uk |
| Buckingham Palace | Constitution Hill, London SW1 Tel: 020 7930 4832 | https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/event/27250576-buckingham-palace-tour-summer-openingwww.royal.gov.uk |
| Cabinet War Rooms | Clive’s Steps, King Charles Street, London SW1 Tel: 020 7930 6961 | www.iwm.org.uk |
| London Canal Museum | The Museum is beside Battlebridge Basin, on the Regent’s Canal. Near Kings Cross & St Pancras Stations | www.canalmuseum.org.uk |
| Chelsea Physic Garden | 66 Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 Tel: 020 7352 5646 | http://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/ |
| Commonwealth Institute | 230 Kensington High St. London W8 Tel: 020 7603 4535 | www.commonwealth.org.uk |
| Courtauld Galleries | Somerset House, The Strand, London WC1 Tel: 020 7848 2526 | www.courtauld.ac.uk |
| Cutty Sark and Gypsy Moth | King William Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 Tel: 020 8858 3445 | cutty sark |
| Dickens’ House | 48 Doughty Street, London WC1 Tel: 020 7405 2127 | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) His only surviving London home |
| Dr Johnson’s House | 17 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London EC4 Tel: 020 7353 3745 | Dr Samuel Johnson published the first English Dictionary in 1755 |
| The Museum in Docklands | The Museum in Docklands unlocks the history of London’s river, port and people in a 19th-century warehouse at West India Quay. Originally used to house imports of exotic spices, rum and cotton, it now holds a wealth of objects from whale bones to WWII gas masks. The nine state-of-the-art galleries include ‘Mudlarks’, an interactive educational area for children and ‘Sailortown’ an atmospheric re-creation of the streets and alleyways of riverside Wapping as they would have appeared in the early nineteenth century. | museumin docklands |
| Royal Festival Hall | Royal Festival Hall & Hayward Gallery Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX Main Switchboard Tel: 020 7921 0600 | South bank centre |
| Florence Nightingale Museum | St Thomas’s Hospital,2 Lambeth Road, London SE1 Tel: 020 7620 0374 | www.florence-nightingale.co.uk |
| Geffrye Museum English domestic interiors from 1600 to the present | Kingsland Road, London E2 | www.geffrye-museum.org.uk |
| Hayward Gallery | Belverdere Road, London SE1 8XX Tel: 020 7921 0600 or 020 7261 0127 | The South Bank Centre |
| HMS Belfast | Morgan’s Lane, Tooley Street, London SE1 Tel: 020 7940 6300 | Imperial War Museum |
| Houses of Parliament | Parliament Square, London, SW1 Tel: 020 7253 9494 | www.parliament.uk |
| Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) | Nash House, The Mall, London SW1 Tel: 020 7930 3647 | ICA |
| Imperial War Museum | Lambeth Road SE1 Tel: 020 7416 5000 | www.iwm.org.uk |
| The Jewish Museum | The Jewish Museum | www.jewishmuseum.org.uk |
| Kew Gardens | Royal Botanic Gardensn Email: info@kew.org | http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ |
| Kensington Palace | Kensington Gardens, London W5 Tel: 020 7376 2858 | Royal Palaces |
| The London Aquarium | Riverside Building, The County Hall, London SE1 Tel: 020 7967 8000 | www.londonaquarium.co.uk |
| London Brass Rubbing Centre | The Crypt, St Martins in the Field Church, Trafalgar Sq. London WC2 Tel: 020 7930 9306 | The opportunity to create your own brass rubbings |
| London Dungeon | 28-34 Tooley Street, London SE1 Tel: 0891 600066 | Infamous for its depiction of medieval torture and execution |
| London Eye | Jubilee Gardens | Wikiepedia (London Eye) |
| London Transport Museum | Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2 Tel: 020 7379 6344 | www.ltmuseum.co.uk (will open in a new window) |
| London Zoo | Regents Park, London NW1 Tel: 020 7722 3333 | www.zsl.org |
| Madame Tussaud’s and The London Planetarium | Marylebone Road London NW1 Tel: 020 7935 6861 | www.madame-tussauds.co.uk/ |
| Monument (Monument to the fire of London of 1666) | Monument Street, London EC2 | Good view from the top if you climb the 311 steps |
| Museum of Garden History | Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 Tel: 020 7261 1891 | www.museumgardenhistory.org |
| Museum of London | London Wall, London EC2 Tel: 020 7600 3699 | www.museumoflondon.org.uk |
| National Army Museum | Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 Tel: 020 7730 0717 | Plan a Visit |
| National Gallery | Trafalgar Square, London WC2 Tel: 020 7839 3321 | http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ |
| National Maritime Museum | Greenwich Park, London, SE10 Tel: 020 8312 6565 | www.nmm.ac.uk |
| Natural History Museum | Cromwell Road, London SW7 Tel: 020 7938 9123 | www.nhm.ac.uk (will open in a new window) |
| Old Royal Observatory & Queens House | Greenwich Park, London SE10 Tel: 020 8312 6565 | www.nmm.ac.uk |
| Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre | Regent’s Park, Inner Circle NW1 Tel: 020 7486 2431 | www.open-air-theatre.org.uk |
| Museum of Brands and Packaging | 2 Colville Mews, Lonsdale Road, Notting Hill, London, W11 2AR. Tel: +44 (0)20 7908 0880 | www.museumofbrands.com |
| Royal Academy of Arts | Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD | www.royalacademy.org.uk |
| Royal Air Force Museum | Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London NW9 Tel: 020 8205 2266 | www.rafmuseum.org.uk (will open in a new window) |
| Royal Albert Hall | Kensington Gore, London SW7 Tel: 020 7589 8212 | www.royalalberthall.com |
| Science Museum | Exhibition Road, London SW7 Tel: 020 7938 8000 | www.sciencemuseum.org.uk (will open in a new window) |
| Shakespeare’s Globe | New Globe Walk, Bankside, London SE1 Tel: 020 7902 1500 | www.shakespeares-globe.org |
| Sherlock Holmes Memorabilia | 230 Baker Street, London NW1 Tel: 020 7486 1426 | Shop for Sherlock Holmes Memorabilia also a period set to view |
| St Martins-in-the-Fields Church | Trafalgar Square, London WC2 Tel: 020 7930 1862 | Free lunch time concerts in the church built in 1722 |
| Serpentine Gallery | Kensington Gardens, London W2 Tel: 020 7402 6075 | www.serpentinegallery.org |
| Sherlock-Holmes Museum | 221b Baker St., London NW1 6XE | www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/home.htm |
| South Bank Centre | South Bank Centre, London SE1 Tel: 020 7921 0600 | southbankcentre |
| St James’s Palace and Park | Pall Mall, London SW1 | St Jamses Park |
| St Paul’s Cathedral | Ludgate Hill, London EC4 Tel: 020 7236 4128 | www.great-britain.co.uk/towns/london/stpauls.htm |
| Tate Gallery | Millbank, London SW1 Tel: 020 7887 8000 | www.tate.org.uk |
| Temple Church | Inner Temple Lane, London EC4 | www.templechurch.com |
| Thames Barrier Exhibition Centre | Union Way, Woolwich, London SE18 Tel: 020 8305 4188 | The Thames Barrier |
| Thorpe Park | Tel: 0870 444 4466 | www.thorpepark.co.uk |
| The Theatre at the V&A Museum |
| www.theatremuseum.org |
| Tower Bridge Experience | Tower Bridge, London SE1 020 7378 1928 | TowerBridge |
| Tower of London | Tower Hill, London EC3 Tel: 020 7709 0765 | |
| The Victoria and Albert Museum | Cromwell Road, London SW7 Tel: 020 7938 8500 | www.vam.ac.uk |
| Wallace Collection | Heartford House, Manchester Square, London W1 Tel: 020 7935 0687 | www.the-wallace-collection.org.uk |
| Westminster Abbey | Westminster, London SW1 Tel: 020 7222 5897 | www.westminster-abbey.org |
| Linking the City of London at St. Paul’s Cathedral with the Tate Modern Gallery at Bankside. | The Millennium Bridge | |
| Open topped bus tour of London | . | |
Boat Trips The Thames and The Regents Canal | . | |
| London Attractions Pass | Visit London’s Top Tourist Attractions FREE With London Pass which you have to buy for 1, 2, 3 or 6 days. | www.londonpass.com |
| Open Air Theatre Regents Park | Regents Park | www.openairtheatre.org |
| London Walks | . | Guided walks round London |
| Royal Palaces | . | The Tower |
| Grant Museum of Zoology | Gower Street | www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology |
| Rugby Football Union | www.rfu.com | |
| London Sightseeing Tours |