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Until 19 Feb 2023
This exhibition in the British Museum’s Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery is a tribute to the scholarly endeavour exerted over many centuries in trying to decode the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script. It is timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the...
£18 (Adult)
Ongoing
This huge stone fortress on the North Bank of the River Thames was built by William the Conqueror shortly after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. Its fascinating history has captured the imagination of millions, and 950 years after...
£29.90 (Adult)
Ongoing
London’s Guildhall is the complex of buildings that, when its predecessors are included, has served for over 800 years as the administrative headquarters of what is now the City of London Corporation, the local authority responsible for the “Square Mile”....
Free
Ongoing
Top-secret during WWII, the underground Churchill War Rooms – now preserved to resemble as closely as possible their authentic state in the 1940s – were the command centre from which Winston Churchill directed Britain’s efforts in the war. The rooms...
£26.35 (Adult)
Ongoing
HMS Belfast, permanently moored on the Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge since 1971, is a WWII Royal Navy warship, the most significant example of her kind today. Constructed in Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard in 1938 (the same...
£23.60 (Adult)
Ongoing
Childhood home of Queen Victoria, and more recently the dwelling of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the elegant Kensington Palace on the western edge of London's Kensington Gardens has been a royal residence for over 300 years. Much of this working Royal Palace including the lavishly decorated State Apartments is open to the public.
£20.00 (Adult)
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Ongoing
£26.35 (Adult)
Top-secret during WWII, the underground Churchill War Rooms – now preserved to resemble as closely as possible their authentic state in the 1940s – were the command centre from which Winston Churchill directed Britain’s efforts in the war. The rooms...
Ongoing
£23.60 (Adult)
HMS Belfast, permanently moored on the Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge since 1971, is a WWII Royal Navy warship, the most significant example of her kind today. Constructed in Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard in 1938 (the same...
Ongoing
£20.00 (Adult)
Childhood home of Queen Victoria, and more recently the dwelling of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the elegant Kensington Palace on the western edge of London's Kensington Gardens has been a royal residence for over 300 years. Much of this working Royal Palace including the lavishly decorated State Apartments is open to the public.
Ongoing
£15.00 (Adult)
Tucked away in the greenery of West London’s Kew Gardens, the 17th century Kew Palace is considered small and humble as far as palace standards are concerned, an idyllic and private place where Georgian royalty could focus on living lives...
Ongoing
£29.50 (Adult)
Situated prominently on the capital’s Southbank, the London Eye was born out of a collaborative effort between architects David Marks and Julia Barfield, British Airways and a team of 1,700 people who built this now iconic landmark to welcome the...
Ongoing
£21 (Adult Annual Pass)
Situated in the heart of the Covent Garden Piazza, the interactive family-friendly exhibitions and installations of the London Transport Museum delve into more than 200 years of the capital’s transportation history, featuring fascinating human interest stories, original vehicles to explore...
Ongoing
£26.35 (Adult)
Top-secret during WWII, the underground Churchill War Rooms – now preserved to resemble as closely as possible their authentic state in the 1940s – were the command centre from which Winston Churchill directed Britain’s efforts in the war. The rooms...
Ongoing
£20.00 (Adult)
Childhood home of Queen Victoria, and more recently the dwelling of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the elegant Kensington Palace on the western edge of London's Kensington Gardens has been a royal residence for over 300 years. Much of this working Royal Palace including the lavishly decorated State Apartments is open to the public.
Ongoing
£15.00 (Adult)
Tucked away in the greenery of West London’s Kew Gardens, the 17th century Kew Palace is considered small and humble as far as palace standards are concerned, an idyllic and private place where Georgian royalty could focus on living lives...
Ongoing
Free
London’s Guildhall is the complex of buildings that, when its predecessors are included, has served for over 800 years as the administrative headquarters of what is now the City of London Corporation, the local authority responsible for the “Square Mile”....
Ongoing
£18.00 (Adult)
The history of London’s Iconic St. Paul’s Cathedral dates back to its consecration in 604. It was destroyed several times through the centuries–by Vikings and by fire twice–before its 1668 redesign by Christopher Wren. It then survived the Blitz, becoming...
Ongoing
£25.00 (Adult)
Central London’s Westminster Abbey has been deeply engrained in Britain’s history since 960AD. It has played the role of coronation host since 1066, has been the site of 16 royal weddings, and is the final burial place of many kings,...
Until 22 Jan 2023
Free
A striking, free-to-see large scale installation artwork called “The Procession” is on show in Tate Britain’s elegant Duveen Galleries until January 2023. This dramatic exhibit presents 150 life-size masked figures clothed in a kaleidoscope of colourful and bizarre costumes in...
Until 19 Feb 2023
£18 (Adult)
This exhibition in the British Museum’s Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery is a tribute to the scholarly endeavour exerted over many centuries in trying to decode the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script. It is timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the...
Ongoing
£21 (Adult Annual Pass)
Situated in the heart of the Covent Garden Piazza, the interactive family-friendly exhibitions and installations of the London Transport Museum delve into more than 200 years of the capital’s transportation history, featuring fascinating human interest stories, original vehicles to explore...
Ongoing
The current Somerset House, a magnificent neoclassical structure built at the end of the eighteenth century as a home for various government departments, especially those linked to the Navy and tax offices, also served as an early home of the...
Ongoing
Free
Perhaps London’s most recognisable modern art gallery, Tate Modern, based in a conversion of the former Bankside Power Station across the Thames from St. Paul’s Cathedral, is home to an international collection of post-1900 art including paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photography.
Ongoing
Free
The National Gallery possesses more than 2,300 European masterpieces, one of the world’s greatest collections of paintings. Trafalgar Square, seen as the centre of London, was chosen by Parliament in 1831 to be the site of a new gallery which...
Ongoing
Free
Millbank’s Tate Britain, one of four Tate galleries, is home to the national collection of British art from the present day stretching back to Tudor times. “British art” is defined not by nationality alone, but by artist contribution to the...
Ongoing
Free
The architecture of South Kensington’s iconic Natural History Museum, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, is a striking work of art and one of the country’s most impressive Romanesque-style buildings. Sir Richard Owen, in charge of the museum’s natural history collection from...
Ongoing
£23.60 (Adult)
HMS Belfast, permanently moored on the Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge since 1971, is a WWII Royal Navy warship, the most significant example of her kind today. Constructed in Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard in 1938 (the same...
Ongoing
£29.50 (Adult)
Situated prominently on the capital’s Southbank, the London Eye was born out of a collaborative effort between architects David Marks and Julia Barfield, British Airways and a team of 1,700 people who built this now iconic landmark to welcome the...
Ongoing
£35.50 (Adult)
Open for research and education since 1828, ZSL London Zoo is the world’s oldest scientific zoo. It is managed by the Zoological Society of London, an international research and conservation charity. The zoo opened to the public in 1847 and...
Ongoing
£28.00 (Adult)
Originally opened in 1997 in the historic Greater London Council building on South Bank, the capital’s aquarium is now neighbour to the iconic London Eye. After a multimillion-pound renovation in 2009, the original London Aquarium relaunched as the SEA LIFE...
Ongoing
£28.00 (Adult)
In 2013, The View from The Shard opened to the public in Renzo Piano and Irvine Sellar’s iconic London landmark. At a height nearly twice that of any other viewpoint over London, its unrivalled sights reveal the bends along the...
Ongoing
£33.50 (Adult)
More than 260 years ago, Madame Tussaud was born in France. At age 16, she started making waxwork models, beginning with philosopher Francois Voltaire. In 1835, 33 years after she introduced her first traveling exhibition to the British Isles, a...
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London’s Royal Parks are the vitally important lungs of the capital, but living in the world’s first National Park City, Londoners are lucky to have access to plenty of smaller green oases. Here are a few to discover:
London is home to some 3,000 parks and about 47% of the city is “green” space. Long walks along quiet trails (think Hampstead Heath, Richmond Park, sections of the Thames path) offer meditative escapes without leaving the M25. We are lucky. But we also appreciate an urban adventure. We are city dwellers after all and, as everyone knows, there’s a winding maze of streets here just full of surprises.
Did you know there are around 180 islands and islets in the Thames? Though small, the 9-acre Eel Pie Island in London’s Twickenham district is still one of the larger islands on the Thames and has a rich musical and artistic history which makes it an interesting place to visit on special ‘Open Day’ weekends each year.