Museum

Grahame Park Way, Hendon, NW9 5LL [map]

The Royal Air Force Museum is Britain's only national museum dedicated wholly to aviation and science of flight.

Greenwich Park, Greenwich, SE10 9NF [map]

Stand on the Greenwich Meridian Line, visit the free museum telling the history of time and astronomy, and catch a show at London's only planetarium.

Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7 2DD [map]

Visit London's Science Museum and see Stephenson's Rocket, the Apollo 10 command module and loads of interactive exhibits for adults and children. Encounter the past, present and future of technology over seven floors of galleries.

Millbank, SW1P 4RG [map]

London's Tate Britain holds the largest collection of British art in the world. You'll find work from the last five centuries, including paintings by Gainsborough, Millais, Whistler and JMW Turner.

Bankside, SE1 9TG [map]

The Tate Modern is London's free national museum of modern and contemporary art. See work by Picasso, Rothko, Dali and Matisse for free and check out the latest big installation in the Turbine Hall.

Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9PA [map]

The V&A Museum of Childhood is home to a huge toy collection which includes dolls, doll's houses, games and puppets.

Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL [map]

Where can you see ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings? Where else but the V&A, the greatest museum of art and design, and home to 3000 years' worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures.

Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1U 3BN [map]

The Wallace Collection is a free national museum, displaying superb works of art in an historic London town house.

183-193 Euston Road, NW1 2BE [map]

Wellcome Collection is a groundbreaking space devoted to exploring the impact of medicine on our lives, through an extraordinary mix of galleries, events and library.

64-66 Tooley Street, London Bridge, SE1 2TF [map]

Journey back through a realistic and educational adventure to the home front of World War Two Britain.

12 Crooms Hill, SE10 8ER [map]

This unique museum houses the world's finest collection of fans including exquisite examples from the 18th and 19th century.