Biggest Museums of London!

The weather is warming up again, and we’re all wanting to get out and about, sometimes our wallets just can’t hold up to all the summer activities though. So whether you’ve lived here your whole life or you’re new to London, taking in some culture, and for free are high up on the list of best things to do when you’ve spent all your money on the Uber home the night before. So, if you want to make the most of your day off, then you can get round to one of the many free museums of London! The majority of London’s best museums are nationally run, so don’t cost visitors a penny. Donations are always welcomed at these places, so if you feel really moved, and you have a couple pound left in your pockets then I’m sure you may feel just a little better about yourself.

Starting off with a major one, that most people know about it’s The Natural History Museum has an amazing building called the Alfred Waterhouse building. It houses a collection that contains some 70 million fossils, rock, plant, animal, and mineral specimens. The Natural History Museum’s Blue Zone is devoted to the diversity of life on earth, from dinosaurs to epic sealife. The entrance hall housed Dippy the plaster cast of a Diplodocus, which had been there since it was commissioned by King Edward VII in 1905, but now has been replaced by the skeleton of a blue whale.The V&A houses one of the world's greatest collections of arts, such as photography, ceramics, portrait miniatures and sculpture. Among the highlights are the Britain 1500-1900 galleries, which are arranged chronologically to trace the history of British design!

Next off we have The British Museum is one of the world's oldest museums. It’s vast collections, show only a fraction of which can be on public display at any time. They actually hold millions of artefacts. First-time visitors generally head for the mummies, the Lindow Man, the Lewis Chessmen Rosetta Stone, and the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial. Retrace the history of humankind through the British Museum’s amazing collection!

Jumping into the Sciencey side of things for all those nerds. The Science Museum has seven floors of educational and entertaining exhibits, showcasing more than 15,000 objects, including the Apollo 10 command module and a flight simulator. It also showcases developments in technology, contemporary science, and medicine. The Medical History Gallery in the museum's attic contains a substantial collection of medical history treasures. Experience the amazing science first-hand with the Science Museum’s interactive displays.

Then into some beautiful artwork, and paintings from history. The National Gallery Founded in 1824 started with a display of just 36 paintings, today the National Gallery now has more than 2,000 works. There are masterpieces from nearly every European school of art. The modern Sainsbury Wing extension contains the gallery’s earliest works: Italian paintings by early masters like Giotto and Piero Della Francesca. In the North Wing, seventeenth-century Dutch, Flemish, Italian and Spanish Old Masters. In the West Wing are Italian Renaissance masterpieces by Correggio, Titian and Raphael.

So hopefully that’s more than enough options to keep your day busy and your wallet full, well atleast, until you splash it all going out with friends again, or on way too much food.