Museums in London are really impressive or better to say museum collections are truly amazing. Here you can learn a lot about European painting, practically from the beginning to the late XX century. What will be especially interesting for visitors is that the entrance to most museums in this city is completely free of charge. We would definitely advise our visitors to review the list of museums and determine those they want to visit according to their own wishes and choices.
Tate Britain – or the National Gallery of British Art, is a gallery that houses the largest collection of British art. It was officially opened in 1897. This museum is part of the Great Four, consisting of the Tate Modern, the Tate Liverpool, and the Tate St Ives. Its collection encompasses British artists who were active between the 16th and the present day. The collection is chronologically separated into three sections.
The Royal Museum of War is a museum complex consisting of five permanent exhibitions in three British cities (London, Manchester and Duxford) dedicated to the battles and the role of Great Britain in World War One.The museum consists of 10 million items. Its various exhibitions offer not only the possibility to see an atom bomb, torpedoes, tanks and fighter airplanes, but also show the soldiers’ experiences from different conflicts. After World War Two, the collection was significantly enriched, which is why the museum’s collection is situated in several locations in England, such as the HMS Belfast, the Winston Churchill Museum and many more. The large collections include documents, photographs, video footage, army vehicles, airplanes and weapons.
Wallace Collection – the main exhibition of the museum is the private collection of Richard Wallace, the last in line of five generations of a British aristocratic family. “The Wallace Collection represents the two-sided face and the finest selection of French 18th century art and the happy end of a human tragedy, a drama of lunacy, harshness and hatred resembling that of the Greek tragedies.” – said Cyril Connolly, British writer and critic.
The Science Museum is located in the Kensington district of London, and its collection consists of more than 300 thousand items, instruments and machines. The museum welcomes more than two million visitors each year, who all come to see the many steamboat engines, World War Two airplanes, a model of the command of the Apollo space mission, a collection of medical instruments etc.
The London Transport Museum shows the evolution of London public transport through time. The museum was re-opened in 1980 in the old “flower garden” in the popular Covent Garden district. The main location in Covent Garden is open for the public every day, and recently it was re-opened after a two—year renovation. The other location, located in Acton, is famous for its museum storage, and primarily the storage is open on work days throughout the year.
