Articles tagged ‘museums’
Museums in London
By Chris | September 7th, 2007 |
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London has over 200 museums ranging from the vast British Museum with items reflecting all periods of human history to small specialist museums like the Clockmakers’ or Sherlock Holmes Museum. The good news for visitors is that many are free, the choice is wide and most museums are extremely well run with changing programmes of [...]
London’s Major Museum Locations
By Chris | August 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
British Museum
Information Tel:+44 (0)20 7323 8299
Box Office Tel:+44 (0)20 7323 8181
Switchboard Tel:+44 (0)20 7323 8000
Address: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG - Map
email:information@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Opening Hours
Daily 10am-5.30pm
Natural History Museum
Switchboard Tel:+44 (0)20 7942 5000
Information Desk Tel:+44 (0)20 7942 5011
The Wellcome Collection
By Chris | June 25th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
London’s newest museum, the Wellcome Collection, was opened on 20 June, 2007, by Nobel Prize winner Professor James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Located on the Euston Road close to Euston Station, The Wellcome Collection houses the personal collection of the late American/British pharmacist, entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Henry Wellcome who was passionate [...]
Daily Dose 17.06
By Chris | June 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* International Olympic Committee inspectors give London ‘best ever report’, but don’t they always says that?(BBCNews)
* Conservatives say they’ll scrap free entry to museums if the win the next election. What a dumb idea.(EveningStandard)
* Britons owe £1,300,000,000,000 in borrowed money, and the vig just went up again.(Telegraph)
HMS Belfast London
By Chris | May 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
HMS Belfast is the former Royal Navy cruiser that is now a permanent floating museum along the banks of the River Thames, just west of Tower Bridge near to London’s City Hall building. This week the ship is holding Warship Week onboard with a daily programme of events designed to show what life was like [...]
London Museums - The Imperial War Museum
By Chris | December 7th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
The Imperial War Museum might not be the most popular attraction in London but its one that’s well worth going to and even though its on the south side of the Thames is easy to get to.
Its in the building of what used to be the Bethlehem Royal Hospital for the Insane (they [...]
Daily Dose 12.01
By Chris | December 1st, 2006 | Add a Comment »
* Queens Park Rangers youth player is the 17 year old who fell under tube train last week. He and his friends who were ‘play fighting’ on a platform, knocked one guy under an on coming train killing him and the 17 year old went under too. Morons(EveningStandard)
* Royal Institute of British Architects worried design [...]
The Sherlock Holmes Museum
By Chris | November 28th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
The home of Sherlock Holmes, Britain’s most famous detective, was 221b Baker Street and there’s a museum there were you can see how the great man lived and worked. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional consulting detective was meant to have lived at the address between 1881-1904 and there’s a blue plaque on the wall outside [...]
The British Museum
By Chris | November 23rd, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Established in 1753, the British Museum was the first public museum in the world, and to this day it remains one of England’s most famous and most visited attractions. Like most of the museums in London, admission for the regular exhibits is free, so at the very least every visitor should make an effort to [...]
Museum in Docklands
By Chris | November 21st, 2006 | Add a Comment »
One of the best museums in London that I’ve seen is one of its newest and probably least well known. The Museum in Docklands is an offshoot of the Museum of London and only opened in 2003 in converted sugar warehouses in West India Quay.
It tells the story of London in relation to the River [...]
