The British Museum began as no more than a personal collection of ‘curiosities' owned by royal physician Hans Sloane, which he later sold to the monarch for GBP 20,000. In 1753, the museum was opened to the public and to...more
London's Design Museum occupies an old 1940s banana warehouse that was redesigned by the Conran group to look like it fell out of 1930s modernist LA. The result is an impressive stark-white Art Deco building that is as a...more
This pioneering gallery space may be small, but it set the standard for galleries of the future. Conceived by celebrated architect John Soane in 1811, it features glass roof panels to allow the maximum amount of daylight...more
Art collections don't get any bigger or more impressive than this. The most important European painters of the last 500 years, from Michelangelo to Matisse, are all represented, housed in a resplendent building on Trafal...more
The brainchild of uber-collector Charles Saatchi, the gallery's place in art history was established in the 90s with its infamous show 'Sensation', which heralded the ascent of Young British Artists such as Damien Hirst,...more
This unusual and charming house museum in Holborn is a wonderful treasure chest of Georgian and Regency bric-a-brac, archaeological artefacts and unexpected, sometimes lurid decor. Its creator John Soane was a highly tal...more
Housed in an impressive and beautifully converted power station on the South Bank, Tate Modern is home to the world’s largest collection of contemporary art, having exhibited everyone from Pablo Picasso to Damien Hirst.
Most alternative art venues can't afford Central London rents, so it's refreshing to come across something as underground and left-field as the Horse Hospital just round the corner from the British Museum. Hosting events...more
Housed inside the impressive Royal College of Surgeons, the Hunterian Museum displays one of Britain's oldest collections of anatomical and medical specimens. Based on the collection of pioneering Scottish scientist and ...more
The Photographers' Gallery has the unlikely accolade of being the best Central London art gallery that visitors never find. An impressive seven storey complex reopened in spring 2012, its location in a dark alley behind ...more
As you walk through the V&A’s revolving doors, the first thing you see is the blue, green and yellow glass Dale Chihuly chandelier hanging from the ceiling, giving you some indication of what you might find here. Occupyi...more
Created in 1901 as a beacon for high culture in the working class East End, the pioneering Whitechapel Gallery has been bringing contemporary art to Londoners for over a century. It's long been a groundbreaking but unstu...more
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