Top 10 Museums in London

Top 10 Museums in London



1) The British Museum


Egyptian mummies, Roman coins, Anglo-Saxon weapons, the Lewis Chessmen, an Easter Island statue, the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles… These are just some of the seven million priceless artefacts on display at the British Museum. The enormous Bloomsbury building houses one of the biggest collections of human art and culture in the world. This means that, no matter how many times you visit, you are always sure to discover a new treasure that you have never seen before.

Tate Museums

Tate Museums

The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art. It is a network of four art museums: Tate Britain, London (previously known as the Tate Gallery, founded 1897), Tate Liverpool (founded 1988), Tate St Ives, Cornwall (founded 1993) and Tate Modern, London (founded 2000), with a complementary website, Tate Online (created 1998). There are plans to open a TATE in Southampton in 2020. It is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.