MuseumsChessington

A series of collections which trace the story of Britain from prehistory to the present day, including fine collections covering the prehistoric period, the Bronze and Iron Ages. Highlights include a section of the Sweet Track, the oldest of the prehistoric trackways in Britain, and the body…
Distance: 13.8 miles away

The wars of the twentieth century have affected each and every one of us in some way, and the Imperial War Museum is here to tell all our stories, covering all aspects of life in wartime. Our exhibits range from tanks and aircraft to photographs and personal…
Distance: 13 miles away

The Natural History Museum traces its roots to the middle of the eighteenth century with the establishment of the British Museum in Bloomsbury. The British Museum housed the collection of Sir Hans Sloane 1660‐1753, a prominent London physician and collector. Sloane's collection was extremely varied, including everything from…
Distance: 11.3 miles away

Experience life in WW2 Britain. Sit in the Anderson shelter and hear the bombs overhead. Learn about evacuation, rationing, women at war, the blackout and much more. Try on gasmasks, lie under the morrison shelter to sleep and walk through the smouldering remains of the bombed…
Distance: 14.2 miles away

Shortly after becoming Prime Minister in May 1940, Winston Churchill visited the Cabinet War Rooms to see for himself what preparations had been made to allow him and his War Cabinet to continue working throughout the expected air raids on London. It was there, in the underground…
Distance: 12.8 miles away

HMS Belfast served throughout the Second World War, playing a leading part in the destruction of the battle cruiser Scharnhorst, and also the Normandy Landings. In service with the Royal Navy until 1965, she was saved for the nation in 1971 as a unique reminder of Britain's…
Distance: 14.3 miles away

The Science Museum is the world's pre‐eminent science museum. It houses outstanding collections relating to science, technology and medicine, and is one of the most prestigious and respected organisations dedicated to the promotion of public science and technology. Our collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological, engineering…
Distance: 11.4 miles away

V&A South Kensington is the world's greatest museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. Discover 3000 years' worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings.The new Architecture…
Distance: 11.4 miles away

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum offers a glimpse of how the original medieval real tennis, has now become a multi‐million dollar professional sport, played all over the world.In the special exhibition area, the costume gallery charts some of the radical changes that have occurred in just over a century…
Distance: 6.7 miles away

The Bank of England Museum traces the history of the bank from 1694. The Bank of England Museum tells the story of the Bank of England from its foundation in 1694 as a chartered joint‐stock company to its role today as the United Kingdom's central bank. The…
Distance: 14.5 miles away

The Birthplace of British Motorsport and Aviation. From the very first attempts to fly in Britain through an exceptionally varied cavalcade of aircraft, Brooklands, the famous aviation site at Weybridge in Surrey, has witnessed and realised a greater range of aeronautical technology than anywhere else in the…
Distance: 6.8 miles away

Florence Nightingale was a legend in her lifetime but the Crimean War years which made her famous were just two out of a life of ninety years. A collection of artefacts and other material connected with Florence Nightingale has been preserved from the early years of the…
Distance: 13 miles away

This Aviation Museum has a unique collection of British Aircraft from the golden age of British aircraft manufacture. From the end of WWII until the 1970's British aircraft designers produced some of the most innovative and advanced aircraft of the day. In this collection there are examples from…
Distance: 14.5 miles away

The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It contains Freud's remarkable collection of antiquities: Egyptian; Greek; Roman and Oriental. Almost two thousand items fill cabinets and are…
Distance: 14.6 miles away

Dr Johnson's House is one of the few residential houses of its age still surviving in the City of London Built in 1700, it was a home and workplace for Samuel Johnson from 1748‐1759, and it was here that he compiled the first comprehensive English Dictionary. Now restored…
Distance: 14.1 miles away

The Fashion and Textile Museum is the first museum in the UK dedicated to contemporary fashion and textiles. Located in one of the fashion capitals of the world, the mission of the Fashion and Textile Museum is to exhibit the immense changes in contemporary fashion and textiles…
Distance: 14.1 miles away

The Golden Hinde is an exact scale, fully operational reconstruction of Sir Francis Drake's Square rigged galleon which sailed round the world 1577‐80. Dressed in period clothes, Drake's new recruits learn 16th Century skills, eat Tudor food and experience life 400 years ago. The ship is also…
Distance: 14.1 miles away

London Bus Museum is pleased to welcome you on board a bus journey that has taken 100 years.Have you ever wondered what happened to all those wonderful old buses that ran in London and which you only now see in old films and books Well, the good news…
Distance: 6.8 miles away

At the London Canal Museum you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats. The museum is an attraction housed in a former…
Distance: 14.8 miles away

The London Motor Museum displays a wide range range of classic American cars from the 50's, 60's and 70's. The museum presents a unique collection of cars that relate to the story of the early motoring experience.We have combined the history of classic automobiles with the modern…
Distance: 11.4 miles away

Covering a wide spectrum of materials and media, including vehicles, rolling stock, posters, signs, uniforms, photographs, ephemera, maps and engineering drawings, the Museum's collections make up the most comprehensive record of urban mass transit in the world. The Museum preserves and displays important collections reflecting all…
Distance: 13.5 miles away

Every year, MCC is proud to play host to thousands of visitors who travel to St John's Wood, to visit one of the world's best and most celebrated sporting venues. Tours of Lord's give such visitors the opportunity to go behind the scenes at MCC's historic ground,…
Distance: 13.4 miles away

The Museum of Garden History was founded in 1977 as the world's first museum dedicated to the history of gardens and gardening. The museum collections fall into 3 main categories; tools, ephemera and library. The tool collection is one of the finest on display. The…
Distance: 12.6 miles away

The Hunterian Museum collections, brought together over four centuries by a cast of colourful characters including John Hunter 1728‐1793, are a fascinating mix of comparative anatomy and pathology specimens; complete skeletons, bones, skulls and teeth; dried preparations, corrosion casts and wax teaching models; historical surgical and dental instruments…
Distance: 13.9 miles away

The National Army Museum is the British Army's own museum. It is the only museum to tell the story of the Army as a whole from Agincourt in the Fifteenth Century to peace‐keeping in the Twenty‐first Century.The National Army Museum in Chelsea houses some of Britain's finest military…
Distance: 11.2 miles away

Pollocks Toy Museum Is Now Closed.Benjamin Pollock was probably the only a shop‐keeper in Hoxton, once a down‐trodden district of East London, to get a Times obituary. When he died in 1937, aged 80, he had kept alive the tradition of toy theatre publishing for sixty years, and…
Distance: 13.7 miles away

Reigate Priory is a grade 1 listed building set in 65 acres of open parkland with a pond, woodland and playing fields only a few hundred yards from the centre of Reigate town, which is situated at the foot of the North Downs. There are seats within the…
Distance: 9.2 miles away

Soane was born in 1753, the son of a bricklayer, and died after a long and distinguished career, in 1837.Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art. After the death of his wife 1815, he lived…
Distance: 13.9 miles away

We are a world famous teddy bear museum and shop located in a heritage 16th century building in the heart of Shakespeare's Stratford, England. Famous guests include the first television Paddington a gift from Michael Bond, Pudsey Bear from the BBC's Children in Need, Roger de Courcey's…
Distance: 6.6 miles away

The Museum of London Group represents a quarter of a million years of history and over seven million modern Londoners. Our collections include over a million items. The Museum has seven permanent galleries that display a wealth of material from our collections.The Museum of London is…
Distance: 14.5 miles away

Since the birth of the Rugby Football Union in 1871, a significant collection of artefacts has been collected. Minute books, match programmes, tickets and fascinating gifts from other Unions. Over the course of a century, the collection built up to such a level that in 1972 the RFU…
Distance: 7.2 miles away

The Design Museum is one of London's most inspiring attractions. Concerned as much with the future as the past, a programme of critically acclaimed exhibitions captures the excitement of design's evolution, ingenuity and inspiration through the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries.One of the world's most exciting designers, Marc Newson…
Distance: 14.4 miles away

Explore History is an innovative new project allowing visitors to get up close and personal with the past thanks to improved access to the Imperial War Museum Collections. The Explore History Centre is a specially‐designed public space where anyone can drop in and immediately access parts of the…
Distance: 13 miles away

The Handel House Museum was home to the baroque composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759. The Museum celebrates Handel's life and works, displaying portraits of Handel and his contemporaries in finely restored Georgian interiors and bringing live music back to his house.The…
Distance: 13 miles away

The Horniman has a unique range of exhibitions, events and activities which illustrate the cultural and natural world. Our collections of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments provide the inspiration for our programme of permanent and temporary exhibitions and events and activities.The Horniman has three main collections, World…
Distance: 12.2 miles away

Leighton House Museum is the former studio‐house of the great Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton 1830‐1896. Located on the edge of London's Holland Park, the house is one of the most extraordinary buildings of the nineteenth century. Leighton was planning the construction of his house from 1864…
Distance: 10.9 miles away

The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, more commonly known as the Order of St. John. One of five mutually recognized orders of St. John, it is an order of the British crown. Reaffirmed in Britain in the mid‐19th century, the Order traces…
Distance: 14.6 miles away

During a visit to the Museum you will experience the fascinating world of automatic musical instruments, designed to provide music at the flick of a switch or at the turn of handle in the days before electronics and microphones.While you are at the Museum sounds from the past…
Distance: 9.2 miles away

The Petrie Museum houses an estimated 80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. It illustrates life in the Nile Valley from prehistory through the time of the pharaohs, the Ptolemaic, Roman and Coptic periods to the Islamic period.The…
Distance: 14 miles away

The Puppet Barge is a comfortable theatre seating 55 with all modern facilities. It is rich in atmosphere and provides the ideal setting for the enchanting and imaginative shows produced by this famous company. This unique theatre has been presenting shows since 1982 giving performances during the winter…
Distance: 12.8 miles away

The museum tells the social history of the county regiment over three centuries; the daily life of the soldier and his family around the world. Varied collection of military equipment and material relating to the Royal Norfolk Regiment and its soldiers includes archive. The Regiment…
Distance: 12.2 miles away

In 1974 the Theatre Museum was formed by combining the Enthoven and Beard Collections with the holdings of two external organisations. These were the British Theatre Museum Association, which collected and displayed theatre material from 1957 as a way of lobbying for a state‐funded theatre museum, and Richard…
Distance: 13.5 miles away