The Museums

The British Museum is famous throughout the world, especially for its Egyptian mummies and for the Parthenon sculptures. An hour and a half’s visit of the museum will show you the real gems of the collection including the Rosetta Stone and wonderful examples of Roman and Anglo Saxon art and manufacture.



The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) is the greatest museum dedicated to art and design, a true treasure house with almost 7 miles of galleries containing objects of beauty from all over the world. A highlights tour will include such works as Raphael’s cartoons, the biggest bed in the world and Henry VIII’s writing desk as well as many other artefacts from some of the world’s richest cultures.

If you’ve already seen our most famous musuems how about something more unusual:

Sir John Soane’s Museum is a fascinating cornucopia of objects collected by one of England’s most famous architects of the 19th century. It is displayed where it was intended to be seen, in his own home in central London. The collection ranges from an Egyptian sarcophagus to Renaissance bronzes.

The Leighton House museum in Kensington was the home of one of England’s Victorian artists who had a particular love of islamic tiles with which he decorated his home.