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Bank of England Museum ..4
British Museum ..5
Geffrye Museum..6
London Transport Museum 7
Museum of London ....8
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There are lots of fun things to do in London for kids of all ages. Many London attractions are
free so you can find activities for kids without spending a small fortune.
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From the Natural History Museum to the British Museum, there are a whole host of places to
visit in London which provide activities for kids. Most London museums offer special
programmes of free activities for children and almost all are free to enter!
Whether you're looking for things to see at the V&A, exploring the gardens at the Horniman, or
taking a trip of discovery at the Science Museum, take your pick of the top family-friendly
museums in London listed below.
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British Museum
The British Museum is one of the world's greatest museums, showcasing objects from
prehistoric to modern times. Highlights include the Rosetta Stone and the mummies in the
Ancient Egypt collection. Entry is free but special exhibitions require tickets. There are free
activity backpacks available as well as special events tailored towards children.
The British Museum is a museum in London dedicated to human history and culture. Its
permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works is among the largest and most
comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the
story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician
and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759
in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over
the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial
footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British
Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1881. Some objects in the collection, most
notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of controversy and of calls for
restitution to their countries of origin.
Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centred on the Round Reading Room) moved to
a new site, the British Museum housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national
library in the same building. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by
the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the
United Kingdom it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions. Since 2002
the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor. 3
3 "National man for British Museum". BBC News. 29 November 2001. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
In addition, the museum has some eighteenth and nineteenth-century almshouse rooms on
display, showing part of the building in its original guise as accommodation for the deserving
poor. 4
In 2011 the Geffrye Museum secured funding of 13.2million from the Heritage Lottery Fund to
build an extension which is due to open in 2015.
The London Transport Museum hosts exhibitions connecting transport with the history of
London. Inside you'll find more than 80 vehicles, including a red London bus and the world's
first Underground train. The galleries are full of exhibits for children to play on. Look out for
Interchange, the children's interactive area.
The London Transport Museum, or LT Museum based in Covent Garden, London, seeks to
conserve and explain the transport heritage of Britain's capital city. The majority of the museum's
exhibits originated in the collection of London Transport, but, since the creation of Transport for
London (TfL) in 2000, the remit of the museum has expanded to cover all aspects of
transportation in the city.
The museum operates from two sites within London. The main site in Covent Garden uses the
name of its parent institution, sometimes suffixed by Covent Garden, and is open to the public
every day, having reopened in 2007 after a two year refurbishment. The other site, located
4 Paula Deitz, 'A Furnished Time Machine', in The New York Times, 13 March 1988
in Acton, is known as the London Transport Museum Depot and is principally a storage site
that is open on regular visitor days throughout the year.
The museum was briefly renamed London's Transport Museum to reflect its coverage of topics
beyond London Transport, but it reverted to its previous name in 2007 to coincide with the
reopening of the Covent Garden site.
London Transport Museum is a registered charity under English law. 5
Museum of London
Take the kids on an unforgettable journey into the story of London's past from a time when
lions roamed Trafalgar Square, through the city under Roman rule, to the 21st century capital:
there's something for all ages. Don't miss the Galleries of Modern London, too. Entry is free,
as are family events at weekends.
The Museum of London documents the history of London from prehistoric to modern times.
The museum is located on London Wall, close to the Barbican Centre as part of the striking
Barbican complex of buildings created in the 1960s and 1970s as an innovative approach to redevelopment within a bomb-damaged area of the City of London.
5 LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED, Registered Charity no. 1123122 at the Charity
Commission
It is a few minutes' walk north of St Paul's Cathedral, overlooking the remains of the Roman city
wall and on the edge of the oldest part of London, now its main financial district. It is primarily
concerned with the social history of London and its inhabitants throughout time. The museum is
jointly controlled and funded by the City of London Corporation and the Greater London
Authority.
been updated, and in 2010 a refurbished gallery on "War, Plague and Fire" opened, covering the
period of the English Civil War and the Great Fire of London.
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The Natural History Museum in London is a museum exhibiting a vast range of specimens
from various segments of natural history. It is one of three large museums on Exhibition
Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and theVictoria and Albert
Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road.
The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items
within five main collections: botany,entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned centre of research specialising in taxonomy, identification and
conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as
well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin. The museum is
particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecturesometimes
dubbed a cathedral of natureboth exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast which dominates
the vaulted central hall. The Natural History Museum Library contains extensive books, journals,
manuscripts, and artwork collections linked to the work and research of the scientific
departments; access to the library is by appointment only.
Although commonly referred to as the Natural History Museum, it was actually officially known
as British Museum (Natural History)until 1992, despite legal separation from the British
Museum itself in 1963. Originating from collections within the British Museum, the
landmark Alfred Waterhouse building was built and opened by 1881, and later incorporated
the Geological Museum. The Darwin Centre is a more recent addition, partly designed as a
modern facility for storing the valuable collections.
Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, the Natural History
Museum does not charge an admission fee. The museum is an exempt charity and a non-
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departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Catherine,
Duchess of Cambridge is a patron of the museum.
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Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186338-d189048-ReviewsLondon_Transport_Museum-London_England.html
http://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/427179-natural-history-museum
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