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National Portrait Gallery
Important British figures
are the subjects of paintings
and photographs. This
is Vivien Leigh, by
Angus McBean (1954).

National Gallery
The world-famous
paintings in the
British national collection Museum of London
Museum are mainly European London’s history is told
and date from through fascinating
the 15th to the objects such as this
19th centuries. 15th-century reliquary. Tower of London
The Crown Jewels
National Portrait and a vast collection
Gallery of arms and armour
are found here. This
Bloomsbury armour was worn
and
Fitzrovia by a 14th-century
Italian knight.
Smithfield and
Spitalfields
Holborn
and the Inns
of Court
Soho and The City
Trafalgar Covent
Square Garden
and the
Strand
Piccadilly,
Mayfair and S Southwark
St James’s and Bankside
E
M South Bank
0 kilometres 1
Whitehall and A
Westminster H 0 miles 0.5
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Tate Modern
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Works of the 20th century, such
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V as Dali’s Lobster Telephone, are
I celebrated here.
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Tate Britain
Formerly the Tate Gallery, Imperial War Museum
this museum showcases Displays, film and special Courtauld Gallery
an outstanding collection effects are used to recreate Well-known works, such as
of British art from the 16th 20th-century battles. This Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère,
century to the present. is one of the earliest tanks. line its galleries.

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