Throughout Britain there are museums of pretty much every variety you can think of. Even just the ones in London would easily take more than a day to see to their full extent. Here I will go over the highlights of some of the museums of note in London.
The British Museum is home to some of the worlds most incredible historical artifacts and art collections from all corners of the globe. The exhibitions show over two million years of human history from the earliest, most basic advancements, to medieval ironworks, along with an astounding amount of factual information, the experience of the British Museum will be enlightening and inspiring for all.
The Bank of England Museum, (another museum of note) contains artifacts from the bank throughout history, such as books, paintings, banknotes, prints and silver. They also have a range of gold bars on display ranging from Roman times to modern day. As well as this, weapons like muskets and pikes that would have once been used to defend the bank are on display.
A museum for anyone with architectural flare is the Design Museum. With exhibitions on modern and contemporary design as well as historical design, the Design Museum is now globally recognised as one of the worlds leading modern design museums.
The first talk of the Imperial War Museum was in 1917 when the Cabinet decided that a museum should be built to display artifacts from the Great War which was of course still going on at the time. The title Imperial War Museum came about when the Dominion governments showed in the prospect. It was officially established as a museum by act of parliament in 1920 and was given a governing board of trustees.
The famous Madam Tussauds wax museum was a tribute to the lady herself. She became settled in Baker Street Bazaar after spending much of her life as a travelling artist, where she made and sold her life-sized wax models. The now famous chamber of horrors that can be found inside the museum, was first dubbed so by Punch magazine as it consisted of a selection of gruesome French revolution models. Shed had huge success by the time she died in 1850.
First opened on Easter Monday 1881, the Natural History Museum was opened when Sir Richard Owen convinced the government that they needed another museum to house all of the natural history artifacts that were in the British Museum. The first of which to be added to the British museum were those in Sir Hans Sloanes collection of natural curiosities which he donated after he died. Then, as more were added to his collection, the need for another museum was becoming great and so up stepped Sir Richard Owen, followed by government approval.
If you visit London and want to visit all of these great places, then to get the most out of them it is likely to take you more than one day. For any trip to be truly enjoyable, a top quality place to stay is a vital ingredient. There are lots of brilliant hotels spread all throughout London and most of them are right by a lot of these great places.
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