Publisher Description

A curated guide to the best of London's museums and galleries. From the obscure to the resplendent, Eleanor Ross acquaints you with the very best museums and galleries the city has to offer. Including world-famous art to quirky collections, London is host to a vast assortment of enlightening spaces just waiting to be explored. This compact and portable little book introduces locals and tourists alike to the capital's cultural hot spots.

Author Biography

Eleanor Ross is an author and journalist based in London. She is the author of two London guide books: Outdoor London and London's Museums and Galleries.

Table of Contents

CENTRAL Alison Jacques Barbican Centre British Dental Museum British Museum Cabinet War Rooms Cartoon Museum Courtauld David Zwirner Foundling Museum Grant Museum of Zoology Hamiltons Gallery Hauser and Wirth Hayward Gallery HMS Belfast House of MinaLima Household Cavalry Museum ICA: The Institute of Contemporary Arts London Transport Museum Magic Circle Museum Marian Goodman Marlborough Fine Art Museum of London National Gallery National Portrait Gallery Pace Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology Photographer's Gallery, Soho Pollocks Toy Museum Royal Academy of Art Sir John Soane's Museum Spruth Magers Tate Britain Tate Modern Tornobuoni Art Unit Wallace Collection Wellcome collection WEST 2 Willow Road Design Museum Keats' House Kenwood House Leighton House Museum Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising Natural History Museum Richard Saltoun Saatchi Gallery Science Museum Serpentine Galleries Victoria and Albert Museum SOUTH EAST Bethlem Museum of the Mind Brunel Museum Deptford Does Art Fashion and Textile Museum Florence Nightingale Museum Goldsmith's Centre of Contemporary Art Horniman Museum Imperial War Museum London London Garden Museum Old Operating Theatre Royal Observatory Greenwich South London Gallery White Cube SOUTH WEST Black Cultural Archives Cinema museum Dulwich Picture Gallery Langdon Down Museum of Disability Newport Street Gallery Studio Voltaire Clapham Sunday Painter Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum Wimbledon Windmill NORTH Ben Uri Gallery and Museum Estorick Collection London Canal Museum London Jewish Museum Modern Art Gallery Museum of the Order of St John Postal Museum Victoria Miro gallery Zabludowicz Collection EAST 19 Princelet Street Anna Kultys City of London Police Museum Chisenhale Gallery Dennis Severs House East End Women's Museum Museum of Childhood Museum of the Home (was Geffrye Museum) Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge Ragged School Museum Sutton House, Hackney Victor Wynd Museum of Curiosities Whitechapel Gallery

Long Description

A curated selection of 95 London museums and galleries, from the obscure to the resplendent. A curated guide to the best of London's museums and galleries. From the obscure to the resplendent, Eleanor Ross acquaints you with the very best museums and galleries the city has to offer. Including world-famous art to quirky collections, London is host to a vast assortment of enlightening spaces just waiting to be explored. This compact and portable little book introduces locals and tourists alike to the capital's cultural hot spots.

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