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Geffrye Museum
Geffrye Museum
Geffrye Museum, 136 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA

Changing style of the English domestic interior in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day. Also...Read more

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Dennis Severs' House
Dennis Severs' House
Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street, London, E1 6BX

Enactments of life in the 18th and 19th centuriesRead more

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Jewel Tower
Jewel Tower
Jewel Tower, Abingdon Street, London, SW1P 3JX

Operated by English Heritage, one of only two surviving sections of the mediaeval royal Palace of Westminster,...Read more

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Foundling Museum
Foundling Museum
Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ

History of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned children, art by many of Britain's most...Read more

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Burgh House
Burgh House & Hampstead Museum
Burgh House, New End Square, London, NW3 1LT

Local history, culture, art exhibitsRead more

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Guildhall Art Gallery
Guildhall Art Gallery
Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, London, EC2V 5AE

Located in the Guildhall, collection includes art and cultural artefacts about London, Victorian-era works, remains...Read more

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Greenwich Heritage Centre
Greenwich Heritage Centre
Greenwich Heritage Centre, London, SE18 4DX

Local history, culture, Royal Arsenal and the Royal Woolwich DockyardRead more

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Greenwich Visitor Centre
Greenwich Visitor Centre
Greenwich Visitor Centre, London, SE10 9LW

Also known as Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre, history of the World Heritage Site, its builders and buildings,...Read more

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Hackney Museum
Hackney Museum
Hackney Museum, 1 Reading Lane, London, E8 1GQ

Local history and culture[9]Read more

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Islington Museum
Islington Museum
Islington Museum, 245 Saint John Street, London, EC1V 4NB

Local historyRead more

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Barnet Museum
Barnet Museum
Barnet Museum, 31 Wood Street, London, EN5 4BE

Local history, costumes, domestic items, laceRead more

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Brent Museum
Brent Museum
Brent Museum, Willesden Library Centre, 95 High Road, London, NW10 2SF

Located in the Willesden Green Library Centre, local history and culture, formerly the "Grange Museum of Community...Read more

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Bromley Museum
Bromley Museum
Bromley Museum, Luxted Road, London, BR6 7JT

Local history and culture[3]Read more

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Bruce Castle
Bruce Castle Museum
Bruce Castle, Lordship Lane, London, N17 8NU

Local history, cultureRead more

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Carshalton
Honeywood Museum
Carshalton, Honeywood Walk, London, SM5 3NX

17th-century house with details from different eras of ownership, local history exhibitsRead more

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Crystal Palace Museum
Crystal Palace Museum
Crystal Palace Museum, Anerley Hill, London, SE19 2BA

History and memorabilia of The Crystal Palace[6]Read more

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Cuming Museum
Cuming Museum
Cuming Museum, 5 Ethel Street, London, SE17 1NH

Local history, culture; small collection of Ancient Egyptian objects. Closed since March 2013 due to fire damage.Read more

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Forty Hall
Forty Hall Museum
Forty Hall, Middlesex, EN2 9HA

Local history, 17th and 18th century ceramics and pottery, 19th and 20th century china, glasswareRead more

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Gunnersbury Park Museum
Gunnersbury Park Museum
Gunnersbury Park Museum, Popes Lane, London, W3 8LQ

Local history of Hounslow and Ealing boroughs, archaeology, costume, fine art, ceramics, also Edwardian era kitchen...Read more

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Harrow Museum
Harrow Museum
Harrow Museum, Headstone Recreation Ground, Pinner View, London, HA2 6PX

Local history, industry, archaeology, also known as Headstone Manor MuseumRead more

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Jack the Ripper Museum
Jack the Ripper Museum
Jack the Ripper Museum, 12 Cable Street, London, E1 8JG

History of the East London in the 1880s, providing a serious examination of the crimes of Jack the Ripper within the...Read more

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Kingston Museum
Kingston Museum
Kingston Museum, Wheatfield Way, London, KT1 2PS

Local history, Eadweard Muybridge gallery of photographs, exhibits of art, photography, cultureRead more

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Merton Heritage Centre
Merton Heritage Centre
Merton Heritage Centre, London Road, London, SM4 5DX

Local history[14]Read more

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Museum of Croydon
Museum of Croydon
Museum of Croydon, 1918 Katharine Street, London, CR0 1NX

Local history, culture, social history, Riesco Gallery with collections of Chinese pottery and ceramics, and Roman...Read more

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Museum of Immigration and Diversity
Museum of Immigration and Diversity
Museum of Immigration and Diversity, 19 Princelet Street, London, E1 6QH

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Museum of London
Museum of London
Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5HN

City's history, culture, archaeologyRead more

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Museum of Richmond
Museum of Richmond
Museum of Richmond, Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, London, TW9 1TP

Local history, cultureRead more

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Museum of Wimbledon
Museum of Wimbledon
Museum of Wimbledon, 22 The Ridgway, London, SW19 4QN

Local history, culture[15]Read more

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Redbridge Museum
Redbridge Museum
Redbridge Museum, Redbridge Central Library, Clements Road, London, IG1 1EA

Local history, culture, located on the second floor of Ilford Central Library[16]Read more

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Twickenham Museum
Twickenham Museum
Twickenham Museum, 25 The Embankment, London, TW1 3DU

Local historyRead more

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Upminster Tithe Barn Museum of Nostalgia
Upminster Tithe Barn Museum of Nostalgia
Upminster Tithe Barn Museum of Nostalgia, Hall Lane, London, RM14 1AU

Artefacts of rural domestic and agricultural lifeRead more

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Valence House Museum
Valence House Museum
Valence House Museum, Becontree Avenue, London, RM8 3HT

Local history, archaeology, maritime and fishing industry, artRead more

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Blue Plaques in London

Henry Vane Brown Plaque - Sir Harry Vane 1612-1662 statesman lived here. Born 1612, beheaded 1662.
Arnold Bennett And Henry Earlforward Green Plaque - Near this site stood Henry Earlforward's bookshop in Arnold Bennett's 1923 novel Riceyman Steps set in Clerkenwell
Blue Plaque № 4970 - The second Lord's Cricket Ground 1811-1813 Home of MCC was located close to this site
St. Mildred's Church, London Blue Plaque - Site of St. Mildred's Church demolished 1872
Bronze Plaque № 42546 - The marks [+] placed on each side of this tablet indicate the position of an archway which for upwards of 130 years, from the first year of the reign of King Edward VI AD 1547 - until the year 1680 was the principal access to the House of Commons. which sat under a grant from that Monarch within the Chapel of St Stephen. Members approaching the House of Commons through this archway passed down the Cloister, which is built against the other side of this wall, ascended a flight of steps leading fr
John Dee Yellow Plaque - John Dee's Garden Wall  The central portion of this wall visible from the Chruchyard, may be the last remaining part of John Dee's property

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