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display can be found at the museums include the Faraday
Wallace Collection. The Imperial Museum, covering the develop-
War Museum has recreations of ment of electricity, and the
World War I trenches and the Blitz. London Museum of Water &
The National Maritime Museum Steam, focusing on water power.
has the definitive display on Lord Greenwich’s Royal Observ atory
Nelson and his naval battles and charts both the history of
the Florence Nightingale astronomy and the creation
Museum illustrates the hardships of GMT, by which the world
of 19th-century warfare. still sets its clocks. The Natural
History Museum mixes displays
on animal life with eco-logical Samson and Delilah (1620) by Van Dyck at
exhibits. Both the Grant Museum the Dulwich Picture Gallery
of Zoology and the Horniman
Museum have superb Victorian by Reynolds, Gainsborough
collections of taxidermy and Rubens in fine Adam
specimens and skeletons. interiors. The Saatchi Gallery is
devoted to contemp orary
international art.
Visual Arts
Imperial War Museum The particular strengths of Where to Find the
the National Gallery are early Collections
Renaissance Italian and 17th-
Toys and Childhood
century Spanish painting and 18 Stafford Terrace p222
Teddy bears, tin soldiers and a wonderful collection of British Museum pp128–31
doll’s houses are some of Dutch masters. Tate Britain Courtauld Institute of Art
the toys that can be seen in specializes in British paintings Gallery p121
Pollock’s Toy Museum. The spanning all periods, while Design Museum p222
Dulwich Picture Gallery p256
collection includes Eric, Tate Modern has displays of Fashion and Textile Museum p187
“the oldest known teddy bear”. international modern art from Faraday Museum p101
The V&A Museum of Childhood 1900 to the present day. The Florence Nightingale Museum
and the Museum of London V&A is strong on European art p194
are a little more formal, but from 1500 to 1900 and British Freud Museum p250
still fun, and illustrate aspects art of 1700–1900. The Royal Geffrye Museum p252
of the social history of child- Academy and the Hayward Grant Museum of Zoology p135
hood, with both offering some Gallery both have major Guards Museum p85
interesting children’s activities. temporary exhibitions. The Hayward Gallery p192
Courtauld Institute of Art Horniman Museum p256
Gallery contains Impressionist Household Cavalry Museum p84
Science and Natural and Post-Impressionist works, Imperial War Museum p194
History while the Wallace Collection Kensington Palace p212
Computers, electricity, space has 17th-century Dutch and Kenwood House pp238–9
London Museum of Water &
exploration, industrial processes 18th-century French paintings. Steam p264
and transport can all be explored The Dulwich Picture Gallery London Transport Museum p118
at the Science Museum. Trans- includes works by Rembrandt, Museum of London pp170–71
port enthusiasts are also catered Rubens, Poussin and Gains- National Army Museum p201
for at the London Transport borough, while Kenwood National Gallery pp108–11
Museum. Other specialized House is home to paintings National Maritime Museum
p244
Natural History Museum pp206–7
Pollock’s Toy Museum p135
Royal Academy of Arts p94
Saatchi Gallery p201
Science Museum pp210–11
Sir John Soane’s Museum
pp140–41
Tate Britain pp86–9
Tate Modern pp182–5
Tower of London pp158–61
Victoria and Albert Museum
pp214–17
Victoria and Albert Museum of
Childhood p252
Wallace Collection p230
William Morris Gallery p253
Ornate Drawing Room at the Wallace Collection

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