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The first national public museum in the world, free since its founding act of 1753. Its eight million objects document human histo...

Britain's national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries, founded on the Angerstein collecti...

Britain's national museum of international modern art in the former Bankside Power Station by Herzog and de Meuron. Its Turbine Ha...

The national gallery of British art from 1500 to today, opened on Millbank as the National Gallery of British Art. It holds the wo...

The world's leading museum of art, design, and performance, founded after the Great Exhibition to educate makers and consumers. It...

A cathedral to life on earth in Alfred Waterhouse's terracotta palace in South Kensington. Its 80 million specimens include specim...

Founded from the surplus of the 1851 Great Exhibition, it holds over 300,000 items: Stephenson's Rocket, the Apollo 10 command mod...

Founded while the First World War still raged, to record the effort and sacrifice of the empire. Its Lambeth building, a former Be...

The world's oldest university museum and oldest public museum in Britain, opened to display the cabinet of curiosities of Elias As...

The University of Cambridge's museum of art and antiquities, founded on the bequest of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam. Its Rembrandt...

The first national portrait gallery in the world, founded in 1856 to collect likenesses of famous Britons rather than great painti...

Hertford House in Manchester Square displays the treasures assembled by four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, beque...

Founded by Terence Conran and opened in 1989 in a former banana warehouse at Shad Thames. In 2016 it moved to the remodelled Commo...

Founded in 1884 when General Augustus Pitt Rivers gave his collection to the University of Oxford. Objects are arranged by type ra...