Galleries & Museums
Featured galleries
Wallace CollectionThe Wallace Collection is one of London’s best galleries, with works by Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian.
Whitechapel Art GalleryWhitechapel Art Gallery shows contemporary art and crafts, with rotating displays and talks by famous artists.
London’s major galleries
Here are London’s best art galleries. They are all free to enter.Hayward Gallery (events) · National Gallery (events) · National Portrait Gallery (events) · Royal Academy of Arts (events) · Tate Britain (events) · Tate Modern (events)
Other art galleries
Bankside Gallery (events) · Courtauld Institute of Art (events) · Dalí Universe (events) · Guildhall Art Gallery (events) · Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (events) · Photographer’s Gallery (events) · Queen’s Gallery (events) · Saatchi Gallery (events) · Serpentine Gallery (events) · Whitechapel Art Gallery (events) · Wallace Collection (events)
You can talk about London’s art galleries and museums in our chat forum, and find where they are with our street map of London
Latest gallery events
>> Latest art exhibitions in London
- See the Brit Insurance Design Awards
- 12th February – 14th June 2009
- The Brit Insurance Design Awards will be held at the Design Musuem in Shad Thames. The entries will be split into seven different categories, and feature the likes of Big Brother Iogo, Oslo Opera House and House of Viktor & Rolf.
- Watercolours & Drawings Fair
- 4th – 8th February 2009
- The Flower Cellars in Covent Garden is hosting a Watercolors & Drawings Fair. Hundreds of art workds are on sale, from watercolour landscape paintings, to pen and ink, pastel and chalk drawings. Paintings vary widely in price, and their is something for everyone's budget.
- Ana Maria Pacheco exhibition: “New Works”
- 2nd – 28th February 2009
- Ana Maria Pacheco is a Brazilian sculptor, painter and printmaker, and has a new exhibition on display at the Berkeley Square Gallery. You can catch "Ana Maria Pacheco: New Works" between the 2nd and 28th February.
- Andrea Palladio exhibition, at the Royal Academy of Arts
- 31st January – 13th April 2009
- The Royal Acadamy of Arts' new Andrea Palladio exhibition celebrates the Italian architect's birth 500 years ago. Palladio gave his name to a whole new style of building -- Palladian -- which can be seen in the Royal Academy's own courtyard.
Featured museums
Museum of LondonThe Museum of London tells the story of London from Roman times up to the present day.
London’s major museums
Here are London’s major museums, most of which are free to enter.British Museum (events) · Churchill Museum & Cabinet War Rooms (events) · Imperial War Museum (events) · London Transport Museum (events) · Museum of London (events) · National Maritime Museum (events) · Natural History Museum (events) · Science Museum (events) · Sir John Soane’s Museum (events) · Victoria & Albert Museum (events)
Other museums
Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum (events) · Bank of England Museum (events) · Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum (events) · Britain At War Experience (events) · Clink Prison Museum (events) · Design Museum (events) · Faraday Museum (events) · Florence Nightingale Museum (events) · Guards’ Museum (events) · Hermitage Rooms (events) · Jewel Tower (events) · Jewish Museum (events) · London Canal Museum (events) · London Fire Brigade Museum (events) · Museum of Garden History (events) · National Army Museum (events) · Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology (events) · Pollock’s Toy Museum (events) · Sherlock Holmes Museum (events) · Wellington Museum (events)
House museums
The following museums are all famous houses, restored to how they would have looked in the occupant’s day…Carlyle’s House (events) · Dickens’ House Museum (events) · Dr. Johnson’s House (events) · Handel House Museum (events) · Keats’ House (events) · Leighton House Museum (events) · Linley Sambourne House (events)
Latest museum events
>> Latest museum exhibitions in London
- “Treasures of Shanghai” exhibition, at the British Museum
- 29th January – 27th March 2009
- The British Museum's new exhibition is called "Treasures of Shanghai: Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Jades", and boasts sixty pieces from China's Shanghai Museum. It is being held to mark London's Shanghai Week.
- Handel exhibition, at the Foundling Museum
- 16th January – 28th June 2009
- The Foundling Museum is marking the 250th anniversary of Handel's death with a "Handel the Philanthropist" exhibition, focusing on his charitable work and role as governer of the Foundling. There will also be a series of classical music concerts celebrating his life's work.
- Marc Quinn talks about his Kate Moss statue
- 16th January 2009
- The artist Marc Quinn will be talking to writer Will Self about his latest work "Siren". This life-size golden statue of Kate Moss forms part of the British Museum's "Statuephilia" exhibition.
- “Home and Away” exhibition — at the V&A
- 10th January – 29th March 2009
- The "Home and Away" exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum gives some South Asian kids living in East London the chance to tell us what they think of their home -- through words, pictures and photographs.
