Victoria & Albert Museum
Seven miles of galleries form the world’s largest decorative arts museum. There are 3000 years worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world’s richest cultures including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings. Everything from dress collections to Byzantine art, Chinese thrones and Samurai swords are on display. The V& A’s sister Museum of Childhood is based at Bethnal Green, NE London. A new Theatre Collection is due to open nearby in South Kensington in 2009.
Open daily 10-1745; 10-2200 Fridays. Admission free.
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The Barbican
The British Library
The British Museum
Buckingham Palace
Cabinet War Rooms & Churchill Museum
Chelsea Physic Garden
Courtauld Institute of Art
Earls Court & Olympia
English National Opera
Greenwich Royal Observatory
Harrods Department Store
Hayward Gallery
Houses of Parliament, Westminster
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Kempton Park
Kensington Palace State Apartments
Kenwood House
The London Dungeon
The London Eye
London Zoo
Lords Ground and MMC Museum
Madame Tussauds
Museum of Garden History
National Army Museum
National Gallery
National Theatre
Natural History Museum
Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Mews
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Royal Society of Arts
The Science Museum
Serpentine Gallery
Shakespeare's Globe
Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum
Somerset House
Spencer House
St Paul's Cathedral
Syon Park
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
The Tower of London
Twickenham Rugby
The Wallace Collection
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Cathedral
White Chapel Art Gallery
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