London museums and galleries

1. London museums and galleries

2. The British Museum

The Museum
preserves its
universality in its
collections of
artifacts representing
the cultures of the
world, ancient and
modern. Popular
exhibitions including
"Life and Death in
Pompeii and
Herculaneum" and
"Ice Age Art".

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5. Natural History Museum

Is a museum of natural
history that exhibits a
vast range of specimens
from various segments
of natural history. 4
фото-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.2 фThe museum is
particularly famous for
its exhibition of
dinosaur skeletons and
ornate architecture

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11. Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and
Albert Museum (often
abbreviated as the
V&A) is the world's
largest museum of
decorative arts and
design.The museum
owns the collectons
from different parts
of the world include
art from South Asia,
China,
Japan,North Africa.In
the centre of the
Museum located John
Madejski Garden

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14. Madame Tussaud's

It's
a wax museum
in London with
smaller museums in
a number of other
major cities.3ф-In
the world-famous
wax museum you
will find also the
Room of Horror.
Here are, for
example, King Louis
XVI and his family's
heads on sticks.

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18. Science museum

The
Science
Museum is a major
museum
on exhibition
Road in South
Kensington, London.
It was founded in
1857 and today is
one of the city's
major tourist
attractions,
attracting 3.3
million visitors
annually

19. collections

The
Science
Museum now holds
a collection of over
300,000 items,
including such
famous items.
Stephenson's Rocket.

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23. Science night

The Science Museum also
organises "Science Night",
"all night extravaganza
with a scientific twist". Up
to 380 children aged
between 8 and 11,
accompanied by adults,
are invited to spend an
evening performing fun
"science based" activities
and then spend the night
sleeping in the museum
galleries amongst the
exhibits. In the morning,
they're woken to breakfast
and more science,
watching an film before
the end of the event

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Power:
The East
Hall
The East Hall is
the first area that
most visitors see
as they enter the
building

25. Making the Modern World

Apollo spacecraft
Apollo 10 Command
Module in the Modern
World Gallery
Making the Modern
World is a relatively new
gallery, in which some of
the museum's most iconic
objects,
including Stephenson's
Rocket, Watson and
Crick's double helix and
an Apollo spacecraft, are
imaginatively displayed
along a timeline
chronicling man's
technological
achievements.

26. Information Age

Gallery at the Science
Museum London
The landmark gallery
explores the six networks
that have transformed
global communications:
The Cable, The Telephone
Exchange, Broadcast, The
Constellation, The Cell
and The Web
It was opened on 24
October 2014 by the
Queen, Elizabeth II, who
sent her first tweet. It
replaced the former
Shipping galleries, on the
second floor, which closed
on 15 May 2012. Their
contents were 3D scanned
and made available online

27. The National Gallery

is an art
museum in Trafalgar
Square in the City of
Westminster,
in Central London.
Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection
of over 2,300
paintings dating
from the mid-13th
century to 1900

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30. Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museums
(IWM) is a British
national museum
organisation with
branches at five
locations in England,
three of which are in
London. Founded as the
Imperial War Museum in
1917, the museum was
intended to record the
civil and military war
effort and sacrifice of
Britain and its Empire
during the First World
War

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33. the Tate Gallery

the Tate Gallery) is an art
museum on Millbank in
the City of Westminster in
London. It is part of
the Tate network of galleries
in England, with Tate
Modern, Tate
Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It
is the oldest gallery in the
network, having opened in
1897. It houses a substantial
collection of the art of the
United Kingdom since Tudor
times, and in particular has
large holdings of the works
of J. M. W. Turner who
bequeathed all his own
collection to the nation. It is
one of the largest museums
in the country.