London Museums Gazetteer

These are just a taste of the wonderful museums and galleries of London. If you have a particular interest, chances are there is a museum devoted to it in London. Note that several of the museums are clustered near to each other in South Kensington, making for an easy day out. If you are venturing beyond London, see our list of museums throughout the UK.

Name	Underground	Zone	Miles to station	Heritage Rating
Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum	Paddington	1
Arsenal Museum	Arsenal	2	0.20
Asia House	Regent's Park	1	0.30
Bank of England Museum	Farringdon	1	0.40
Bankside Gallery	Blackfriars	1	0.30
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum	Kilburn Park	2	0.40
Benjamin Franklin House	Charing Cross	1	0.00
British Library	King's Cross St. Pancras	1	0.20
British Museum	Tottenham Court Road	1	0.30
Brunel Museum	Rotherhithe	2
Charles Dickens Museum	Russell Square	1	0.40
Churchill War Rooms	Westminster	1	0.20
Cinema Museum	Elephant & Castle	1.5	0.30
Clink Prison Museum	London Bridge	1	0.30
Clockmakers' Museum	Farringdon	1	0.40
Courtauld Gallery	Temple	1	0.10
Cutty Sark	Cutty Sark	2.5	0.10
Dulwich Picture Gallery	Brixton	2	0.99
Fashion and Textile Museum	London Bridge	1	0.30
Florence Nightingale Museum	Waterloo	1	0.20
Foundling Museum	Russell Square	1	0.20
Freud Museum	Finchley Road	2	0.20
Garden Museum	Lambeth North	1	0.50
Geffrye Museum	Old Street	1	0.60
Golden Hinde	London Bridge	1	0.20
Grant Museum of Zoology	Euston Square	1	0.10
Guards Museum	St. James's Park	1	0.20
Guildhall Art Gallery	Bank	1	0.20
Gunnersbury Park Museum	Acton Town	3	0.30
Handel & Hendrix in London	Bond Street	1	0.20
Hayward Gallery	Embankment	1	0.20
HMS Belfast	London Bridge	1	0.20
Honeywood Museum			0.00
Horniman Museum and Gardens	New Cross Gate	2	0.99
Household Cavalry Museum	Charing Cross	1	0.20
Imperial War Museum London	Lambeth North	1	0.30
Jewish Museum	Camden Town	2	0.20
Kirkaldy Testing Museum	Southwark	1
Leighton House Museum	Kensington (Olympia)	2	0.30
Little Holland House			0.00
London Canal Museum	King's Cross St. Pancras	1	0.30
London Dungeon	London Bridge	1	0.10
London Transport Museum	Covent Garden	1	0.20
Museum of Brands	Ladbroke Grove	2	0.10
Museum of London	Barbican	1	0.20
Museum of London Docklands	West India Quay	2	0.20
National Army Museum	Sloane Square	1
National Gallery	Charing Cross	1	0.10
National Maritime Museum	Cutty Sark	2.5	0.30
National Portrait Gallery	Covent Garden	1	0.20
Natural History Museum	South Kensington	1	0.20
Old Operating Theatre Museum	London Bridge	1	0.10
Orleans House Gallery	Richmond	4	0.99
Pollocks Toy Museum	Goodge Street	1	0.00
Queen's Gallery	Victoria	1
Raven Row Gallery	Aldgate East	1	0.10
Royal Academy of the Arts	Green Park	1	0.20
Royal Air Force Museum London	Colindale	4	0.60
Royal Mews	Victoria	1
Royal Observatory, Greenwich	Cutty Sark	2.5	0.30
Saatchi Gallery	Sloane Square	1	0.10
Science Museum	South Kensington	1	0.20
Sherlock Holmes Museum	Baker Street	1	0.10
Sir John Soane's Museum	Holborn	1	0.10
Somerset House	Temple	1	0.10
St John's Gate	Farringdon	1	0.20
Tate Britain	Pimlico	1	0.30
Tate Modern	Southwark	1	0.30
Tower Bridge	London Bridge	1	0.40
V&A Museum of Childhood	Bethnal Green	2	0.10
Victoria and Albert Museum	South Kensington	1	0.20
Wallace Collection	Bond Street	1	0.30
Whitehall Tudor House Museum			0.00
William Morris Gallery	Walthamstow Central	3	0.50
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum	Wimbledon	3	0.40
World Rugby Museum	Hounslow East	4	0.99
Name	Underground	Zone	Miles to station	Heritage Rating