Officially the country's most popular tourist attraction, the British Museum opened to the public in 1759 in Montagu House, which then occupied this site. Mehr erfahren.
Freemasons' Hall, the eye-catchingly bombastic stone building is the headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England and the principal meeting place for Masonic Lodges in London. Mehr erfahren.
Upstairs, the chronological displays begin with 'London Before London', where artefacts include flint axes from 300,000 BC, found near Piccadilly, and the bones of an aurochs. Mehr erfahren.
The NHM opened in Alfred Waterhouse's purpose-built, Romanesque palazzo on the Cromwell Road in 1881. Now joined by the splendid Darwin Centre extension. Mehr erfahren.
Only marginally less popular with kids than its natural historical neighbour, the Science Museum is a celebration of the wonders of technology in the service of our daily lives. Mehr erfahren.