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London Museums and Art Galleries with Free Entry

People from outside England believe that London is an expensive place to visit. This is a fallacy. London's 240 major museums and art galleries offer free admission. Here's a list of the best of the big names you can visit for free all year round. There are lots of free museums and galleries in London, from the large-scale to the single room type. This list also focuses on the best of the small free London museums that are certainly worth a visit.

Bank of England Museum

The Bank of England Museum tells the story of the Bank of England from its foundation in 1694 to its role today as the United Kingdom's central bank.

British Museum

• Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms

Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld Gallery is displayed in Somerset House, a stunning 18th century Neoclassical palace. The Courtauld Gallery's art collection covers the 14th century up to today.

Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery - Free on Mondays

The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery at Somerset House in London is free every Monday from 10am to 2pm.

Geffrye Museum

The Geffrye Museum in east London gives an insight into how Londoners have lived over the years. It's a museum of English domestic interiors and has room sets from 1600 right up to today.

Grant Museum of Zoology

The Grant Museum of Zoology has about 55,000 specimens, covering the whole Animal Kingdom. It's small and spooky and lots of fun, and it's free so you can pop in regularly.

• HMS Belfast – 258,941

Horniman Museum

Hunterian Museum

The Hunterian Museum is at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. The Museum is inspired by the life and work of the surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793).

Imperial War Museum

The Imperial War Museum is unique in its coverage of conflicts, from the First World War to the present day. It seeks to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and how it affects our lives.

L. Ron Hubbard's Fitzroy House

Fitzroy House, in the 1950s, was the London home and office of L. Ron Hubbard the founder of Dianetics and Scientology. The public can visit for free and see the restored building and exhibits of his life and works.

Library and Museum of Freemasonry

The Library and Museum of Freemasonry in London contains an extensive collection of objects with Masonic decoration including pottery and porcelain, glassware, silver, furniture and clocks, jewels and regalia.

Museum of Childhood

Find out about the Museum of Childhood including history, contact details, and a review.

Museum in Docklands

 

Museum of London

National Army Museum

The National Army Museum has five floors of exhibits showing the history of the British Army and its impact on others. There are four permanent gallery displays and an extensive program of exhibitions, events, and activities.

National Gallery Visitor Information

The National Gallery in London takes up the entire north side of Trafalgar Square. Its masterpieces include: Botticelli, Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Cezanne, Hogarth, and Gainsborough. Here's all the information you need to plan your visit.

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is one of the big three museums in South Kensington, London. It is a wonderful Victorian building housing the weird and wonderful of the natural world. World famous for its dinosaur skeletons.

• National Maritime Museum – 1,765,814

• National Portrait Gallery – 1,645,680

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has 80,000 objects but only has space to display a small percentage. They welcome children and have activities available.

Prince Henry's Room and Samuel Pepys Exhibition

Prince Henry's Room in Fleet Street is one of the few houses in London which survived the Great Fire of London in 1666.

Royal Institution

It's free to visit so find what to see at the Royal Institution in London.

Saatchi Gallery

The Saatchi Gallery moved to its new home in Chelsea in 2008. The 70,000 sq.ft. gallery in the Duke of York HQ building on King's Road, Chelsea offers free admission to all shows as part of the Saatchi Gallery's aim to bring contemporary art to the widest audience possible. Plus you're allowed to photos everywhere in the building.

Science Museum

The Science Museum was founded in 1857 with objects shown at the Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace. The permanent displays are free and they have exceptional temporary exhibitions for all the family.

Sir. John Soane's Museum

Sir John Soane was an architect and avid collector of antiquities and art. He merged 3 houses on Lincoln's Inn Fields to be his home and museum which he left to the nation in 1837.

Smythson of Bond Street

Smythson of Bond Street is a luxury stationers and leather goods retailer and their main store is on Bond Street in London. At the back of the store there's a small museum, which though small, is worth seeing.

Tate Britain Visitor Information

Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to today. Each room is organized around a theme. Displays change regularly.

Tate Modern Guide

Tate Modern is the UK national gallery of modern art from 1900 onwards. Tate Modern is housed on a converted power station next to the River Thames, opposite St. Paul's Cathedral.

Theatre Museum

• V&A Museum of Childhood

• Victoria and Albert Museum

The Vault

The Vault is the rock memorabilia museum in the shop at the Hard Rock Cafe in London.

The Wallace Collection

The Wallace Collection in London is a national museum displaying eighteenth and nineteenth century European paintings and French objets d'art.

Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection is a modern museum and gallery bringing together science and art. Sir Henry Wellcome enthusiastically collected over a million medical objects and Wellcome Collection displays as many as possible to help visitors discover more about the development of medicine through the ages and across cultures.

Whitechapel Bell Foundry Museum

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry made the Big Ben bell for the Houses of Parliament and the original Liberty Bell. They have a free museum you can visit on weekdays to find out more.

 

 

List of other Museums and Galleries with Free Entrance

 

Age Exchange Reminiscence Centre

Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum

All Hallows-by-the-Tower Crypt Museum

Anaesthesia Heritage Centre

Apsley House

Arsenal Football Club Museum

Baden-Powell House Exhibition

Bank of England Museum

Banqueting House

Barbican Art Gallery

Barnet Museum

Benjamin Franklin House

Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art

Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons Museum

Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum

Bexley Museum

Black Cultural Archives

Boston Manor House

Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum

Brent Museum

British Airways Museum Collection

Britain At War Experience

British Dental Association Museum

British Library

British Museum

British Music Experience

British Optical Association Museum

British Postal Museum and Archive

British Red Cross Museum and Archives

Bromley Museum

Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail

Bruce Castle Museum

Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies

Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies

Brunel Museum

BT Archives

Buckingham Palace

Building Centre Gallery

Burgh House & Hampstead Museum

Canada House Gallery

Carlyle's House

Cartoon Museum

Centre for Recent Drawing

Charles Dickens Museum

Chartered Insurance Institute Museum

Chelsea Physic Garden

Chiswick House

Church Farmhouse Museum

Churchill War Rooms

Clarence House

Clink Prison Museum

Clockmakers' Museum

Clown Museum and archive

College of Arms

Couper Collection

Courtauld Gallery

Crime Museum

Crofton Roman Villa

Crossness Pumping Station

Crown Jewels

Croydon Lifetimes Museum

Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society

Crystal Palace Museum

Cuming Museum

Cutty Sark Museum

Dali Universe

Danson House

De Morgan Centre

Dennis Severs' House

Design Museum

Dr Johnson's House

Dorich House

Drapers Company Collections

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Eastbury Manor House

Eastside Community Heritage

Eltham Palace

Erith Museum

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Fan Museum

Fashion and Textile Museum

Fenton House

Firepower: The Royal Artillery Museum

Florence Nightingale Museum

Forty Hall Museum

Foundling Museum

Freud Museum

Fulham Palace

Galton Collection

Garden Museum

Garrick's Temple

Geffrye Museum

Golden Hinde

Grange Museum of Community History

Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy

Great Ormond Street Hospital Museum and Archive

Greenwich Heritage Centre

Greenwich Hospital (London)

Greenwich Visitor Centre

Guards' Museum

Guide Heritage Centre

Guildhall Art Gallery

Guildhall Library

Gunnersbury Park Museum

Hackney Museum

Ham House

Hampstead Museum

Hampton Court

Handel House Museum

Harrow Museum

The Hayward

HMS Belfast

Hogarth's House

Honeywood Heritage Centre

Honourable Artillery Company Museum

Horniman Museum

House Mill Museum at Three Mills

Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons

Imperial War Museum

Inns of Court and City Yeomanry Museum

Institute of Archaeology Collections

Island History Trust

Islington Museum

Jewel Tower

Jewish Military Museum and Memorial Room

Jewish Museum (Camden)

Jewish Museum (Finchley)

Keats' House

Kennel Club Art Gallery

Kensington Palace

Kenwood House

Kew Bridge Steam Museum

Kew Gardens Museum No.1 and Marianne North Gallery

Kew Transport Museum

Kingston Museum

Kirkaldy Testing Museum

Leighton House Museum

Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Linnean Society Collections

Linley Sambourne House

Little Holland House, Carshalton

Livesey Museum for Children

London Aquarium

London Canal Museum

London Dungeon

London Fire Brigade Museum

London Gas Museum

London Motorcycle Museum

London Sewing Machine Museum

London Transport Museum

London Zoo

Madame Tussaud's London

Magic Circle Museum

Manor Park Museum

Marble Hill House

Markfield Beam Engine and Museum

Marx Memorial Library

MCC Museum

Merton Heritage Centre

Michael Faraday Museum

Museum of Croydon

Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising

Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture

Museum of Immigration and Diversity

Museum of London

Museum of London Docklands

Museum of Richmond

Museum of Rugby

Museum of the Order of St John

Museum of Veterinary History

Musical Museum

Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising

National Archives

National Army Museum

National Gallery

National Maritime Museum

National Portrait Gallery

Natural History Museum

The Newsroom - Guardian and Observer Archive and Visitor Centre

North Woolwich Old Station Museum

Old Operating Theatre

Old Speech Room Gallery, Harrow School

Orleans House Gallery

Osterley Park

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

Pitzhanger Manor

Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum

Pollock's Toy Museum

Prince Henry's Room

Pumphouse Educational Museum

Pushkin House

Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge

Queen's Gallery

Queen's House

Ragged School Museum

Ranger's House (Wernher Collection)

Red House

Redbridge Museum

Riesco Gallery

Rose Theatre Exhibition

Royal Academy of Arts

Royal Air Force Museum

Royal College of Music Archives and Museum of Instruments

Royal College of Physicians Collections

Royal Fusiliers Museum

Royal Hospital Chelsea

Royal Institute of British Architects Collections

Royal Greenwich Observatory

Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum

Royal Mews

Royal Military School of Music Museum

Royal Mint Sovereign Gallery

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum

Royal Philatelic Collection

St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum

St Paul's Cathedral Crypt Museum

Saatchi Gallery

Salvation Army International Heritage Centre

Science Museum

Sherlock Holmes Museum

Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition

Sir John Soane's Museum

Smythson Stationery Museum

Somerset House

South London Gallery

Southside House

Spencer House

Stephens Collection

Sutton House

Tate Britain

Tate Modern

Tower Bridge

Tower of London

Twinings Museum

Two Willow Road

Twickenham Museum

Type Museum

UCL Collections

Valence House Museum

Vestry House Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

V&A Museum of Childhood

Wallace Collection

Wandle Industrial Museum

Wandsworth Museum

Wellcome Library

Wellcome Collection

Wellington Arch

Wesley's Chapel and the Museum of Methodism

West Ham United Museum

Westminster Abbey Museum

Westminster Dragoons Museum

Whitechapel Gallery

Whitehall, Cheam

Whitewebbs Museum of Transport

William Morris Gallery

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

Wimbledon Society Museum of Local History

Wimbledon Windmill Museum

Women's Library

Young's Brewery

If you decide to visit London I hope you enjoy your visit and return often. I am an Englishman who has visited London many times and I still have only scratched the surface of London and its fun attractions.

My family tree has been traced back to the early Kings of England from the 7th Century AD. I am also a direct descendent of Sir Christopher Wren which has given me an interest in English History which is great fun to research.

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