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44  INTRODUCING L ONDON

London’s Best: Museums
and Galleries

London’s museums are filled with an astonishing diversity of
treasures from all over the world. This map highlights 15 of the
city’s most important galleries and museums, whose exhibits
cater to most interests. Some of these collections started
from the legacies of 18th- and 19th-century explorers, traders British Museum
and collectors. Others specialize in one aspect of art, history, This Anglo-Saxon helmet is
science or technology. A more detailed overview of London’s part of a massive collection
museums and galleries is on pages 46–7. of antiquities.

Wallace Collection
Frans Hals’s Laughing
Cavalier is a star attraction
in this museum of art,
furniture, armour and Regent’s Park
objets d’art. and Marylebone

Royal Academy of Arts
Major international art
exhibitions are held here,
and the renowned Summer
Exhibition, when works are on
sale, takes place every year.

Soho and
Trafalgar
Kensington and Square
Holland Park

South Kensington Piccadilly,
and Mayfair and
Knightsbridge St James’s

Whitehall and
Westminster
Natural History Museum
All of life is here, with vivid
displays on everything from
dinosaurs (like this Triceratops
skull) to butterflies.

Chelsea

Science Museum Victoria and Albert Museum
Newcomen’s steam engine of 1712 A museum dedicated to decorative arts with
is just one of many exhibits that literally millions of objects in its collection.
appeal to both novice and expert. This Indian vase is from the 18th century.

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