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100 London Road, Forest Hill, SE23 3PQ [map]

The first permanent exhibition in Britain dedicated to African art and culture, African Worlds celebrates the continent's diversity, history and creativity. It brings together a rich mixture of sculpture and decorative arts explained through the voices of elders, maskers, drummers, diviners, artists, exiles, curators and anthropologists. Objects from across Africa are displayed from Egypt to Zimbabwe, and from African related cultures including Brazil and Trinidad. Highlights include masterpieces of the bronze casters art from Benin which depict the arrival of the first Europeans to Africa.

St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, W2 1NY [map]

Visit the laboratory in which Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, reconstructed to its original appearance, with bacteriological equipment and an exhibition telling the story of Fleming, the man, the scientist, and the impact of penicillin on modern healthcare.

31 Wood Street, Barnet, EN5 4BE [map]

Local history museum showing samplers, costume, photographs local artefacts, archives and a World War II home front display.

Spring Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 1UF [map]

Bourne Hall is a local history museum in Ewell in an extraordinary 1960s building in a Victorian park.

The Priory, Church Hill, Orpington, BR6 0HH [map]

Local museum housed in a medieval/post-medieval building standing in formal and informal gardens.

Lordship Lane, N17 8NU [map]

Since 1906, the Grade I listed Bruce Castle has been a museum and now houses the Borough of Haringey's local history collections, archives and art exhibitions.

Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, SE16 4LF [map]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's first project, with his father Sir Marc, scheduled ancient monument and international landmark site, now a museum, the Thames tunnel, the first under a river, is the oldest section in the London underground.

New End Square, NW3 1LT [map]

Set in the heart of Hampstead village, Burgh House is a Grade I Queen Anne Listed building with a terraced garden and licensed basement buttery.

Rudolph Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire, WD23 3HW [map]

Bushey Museum is a local history museum with locally made products, a large collection of art by Lucy Kemp-Welch and historic artefacts.