CONTENTS
Introduction 7
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
Alexander Fleming Laboratory 11 Design Museum 67 All Hallows Undercroft 11 Dr Johnson’s House 67 Apsley House 12 Dulwich Picture Gallery 69 Bank of England 17 Eltham Palace 73 Bankside Gallery 18 Estorick Collection 76 Banqueting House 19 Fan Museum 77 Barbican Art Gallery 21 Fashion and Textile Museum 78 Ben Uri Gallery 22 Fenton House 78 Benjamin Franklin House 23 Firepower! 82 Bethlem Royal Hospital 23 Florence Nightingale Museum 83 Bethnal Green Museum of Forty Hall 85 Childhood 24 Foundling Museum 86 Black Cultural Archives 25 Freud Museum 89 Bramah Museum 26 Fulham Palace 91 British Library 26 Geffrye Museum 92 British Museum 28 Grant Museum of Zoology 96 British Optical Association 44 Guards Museum 97 Brunei Gallery SOAS 44 Guildhall Art Gallery 99 Brunel Engine House 45 Gunnersbury Park 100 Buckingham Palace 46 Ham House 101 Burgh House 51 Hampton Court Palace 106 Cabinet War Rooms / Churchill Handel House Museum 118 Museum 51 Hayward Gallery 119 Camden Arts Centre 52 HMS Belfast 121 Carlyle’s House 53 Hogarth’s House 122 Charles Dickens Museum 54 Horniman Museum 124 Chartered Insurance Institute 55 Hunterian Museum 126 Chelsea Physic Garden 55 ICA 129 Chiswick House 57 Imperial War Museum 130 Clockmakers Museum 60 Jerwood Space 134 Contemporary Applied Arts 61 Jewel Tower 135 Crafts Council Gallery 61 Jewish Museum 136 Cuming Museum 62 Keats House 137 Cutty Sark 63 Kensington Palace 140 Dalí Universe 64 Kenwood House (Iveagh Danson House 64 Bequest) 145 Dennis Severs House 65 Kew Bridge Steam Museum 152 6 CONTENTS
Kew Palace 153 Royal Academy of Music 247 Kingston Museum 154 Royal College of Music 248 Leighton House 155 Royal Hospital Museum 249 Library and Museum of Royal Institute of British Freemasonry 159 Architects 251 Linley Sambourne House 160 Royal Institution Faraday London Canal Museum 162 Museum 251 London Fire Brigade Museum 163 Royal London Hospital London Transport Museum 163 Museum 252 Lord’s Tour and MCC Museum 164 Royal Mews 253 Mall Galleries 165 Royal Society of Arts 255 Marble Hill House 165 Saatchi Gallery 258 Marianne North Gallery 168 St Bartholomew’s Hospital 259 Maritime Greenwich 169 St Bride’s Crypt 261 Martinware Collection 183 Science Museum 261 Museum in Docklands 184 Serpentine Gallery 266 Museum of Garden History 187 Shakespeare’s Globe 266 Museum of London 188 Sir John Soane’s Museum 267 Museum No. 1 192 Somerset House 272 Museum of the Order of South London Art Gallery 279 St John 193 Southside House 280 Museum of Rugby 194 Spencer House 281 Musical Museum 195 Sutton House 283 National Army Museum 195 Tate 286 National Gallery 198 Theatre Museum 303 National Portrait Gallery 213 Tower of London 304 Natural History Museum 223 Tower Bridge Exhibition 311 Old Operating Theatre 227 University College Art Orleans House Gallery 227 Collections and Strang Osterley Park 228 Print Room 312 Percival David Foundation 233 Victoria & Albert Museum 313 Petrie Museum 234 Wallace Collection 336 Photographers’ Gallery 235 Wellington Arch 343 Pitshanger Manor 235 Wesley’s House 344 Pollock’s Toy Museum 236 Westminster Abbey Museum 345 Prince Henry’s Room 237 Whitechapel Art Gallery 348 Queen’s Gallery 237 William Morris Gallery 348 Ragged School Museum 240 2 Willow Road 351 Ranger’s House 241 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Red House 242 Museum 352 Royal Academy of Arts 243 Wimbledon Windmill Museum 353
Glossary 354 Index by area 376 Index 357 Maps 378