London for free
There are quite a few places in London worth going to... Here are some of them that are FREE!
With more than 70 million specimens, ranging from microscopic slides to mammoth skeletons, the Natural History Museum is home to the largest and most important natural history collection in the world. The scope of our specimens is simply vast. They include material from the ill-fated dodo, meteorites from Mars and a full-size blue whale skeleton.
Admission: Free
See website for details: www.nhs.ac.uk
Victoria & Albert Museum South Kensington is the world's greatest museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. Discover 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.
Admission: Free
See website for details: www.vam.ac.uk
Get in touch with science and technology by visiting London's Science Museum, South Kensington! Thousands and thousands of artefacts created by humanity's aspiration for knowledge and progress are waiting to be seen and admired.
Admission: Free
See website for details: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
The British Museum holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain's architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history.
Admission: Free
See website for details: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
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The Imperial War Museum is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present day. It seeks to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and how it affects our lives.
Admission: Free
See website for details: london.iwm.org.uk
The National Gallery, London houses the national collection of Western European painting: over 2,300 pictures dating from 1250 to 1900. The collection includes all the major European schools of painting and masterpieces by many great artists.
Admission: Free
See website for details: www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Tate Britain is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art and works actively to promote interest in British art internationally. The displays at Tate Britain call on the greatest collection of British art in the world to present an unrivalled picture of the development of art in Britain from the time of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, to the present day.
Admission: Free
See website for details: www.tate.org.uk/britain
Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art. Created in the year 2000 from a disused power station in the heart of London, Tate Modern displays the national collection of international modern art. It includes important masterpieces by both Picasso and Matisse and one of the world's finest museum collections of Surrealism, including works by Dali, Ernst, Magritte and Miro.
Admission: Free
See website for details: www.tate.org.uk/modern
Established at the beginning of the 19th century, Holland Park is a very beautiful and cosy place to have a walk and relax in. It is also a home to Kyoto Japanese Garden with its spectacular waterfalls and diversity of exotic flora and fauna.
Admission: Free
Location: Kensington, London, W8