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Museums and the Arts
Music
- London Symphony Orchestra
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- The Royal Opera House
- Information on ballet & opera productions, including online booking.
- Wigmore Hall
- Includes sections on upcoming concerts, development and education programmes and the hall and its history. With virtual tour.
- London Philharmonic Choir
- Information on the choir's current season, concerts, reviews, and membership details.
Museums
- The Victoria and Albert Museum
- The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of the decorative arts and is home to 145 galleries, including national collections of sculpture, furniture, fashion and photographs.
- Leighton House Museum
- Leighton House Museum is the former studio-house of the Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896).
- Royal Holloway College Picture Gallery
- In the last years of his life, Thomas Holloway (1800-83) a self-made multi-millionaire whose fortune had been made in patent medicines, paid well over 80,000 pounds (equivalent to more than 6 million pounds in today's terms) for the seventy-seven paintings which make up the Royal Holloway Collection. Among the scenes of contemporary Victorian life, Holloway was fortunate enough to acquire several of the most important ever produced.
- British Museum
- Founded in 1753, displaying world-famous collections of antiquities from Egypt, Western Asia, Greece and Rome, Prehistoric and Romano-British, Medieval, Renaissance, Modern and Oriental collections. Over 6 million objects.
- The Freud Museum
- London home of Sigmund and his daughter Anna Freud. Now a museum containing Freud's library and collection of antiquities.
- Museum of London
- The largest city museum in the world. Tells the fascinating story of London from prehistoric times to the present day.
- Tower Of London
- Founded by William the Conqueror, the 900-year-old castle has since served as a fortress, prison, palace and now a museum. Permanent home to the British Crown Jewels.
- The Sir John Soane's Museum
- Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art. After the death of his wife (1815), he lived here alone, constantly adding to and rearranging his collections.
Visual and Decorative Arts
- The Tate Gallery
- Home of the national collections of British art and international modern art. Online exhibits include 8,000 works of art.
- The National Portrait Gallery
- Founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women, the collection represents the most comprehensive of its kind.
- The National Gallery, London
- Houses the National Collection of western European painting, with over 2,300 paintings covering all schools of European art from the 1200s to 1900s.
- The Design Museum
- London's museum of international contemporary design.
- The Royal Academy of Arts
- The Royal Academy's collection includes the finest examples of fine arts from the 18th century to the present.
- Kettle's Yard House and Gallery
- Exhibits the collections of H. S. Ede, 20th century collector of art and decorative art and former curator of the Tate Gallery, London. Collection includes works by Brancusi, Wood, Moore and Miró.
- The 24 Hour Museum
- The UK's first national collection in cyberspace, with over 2,000 museums and galleries listed and over 300 available on-line.
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