Museums in London

This unassuming brick building contains the last purpose-built drill hall in the United Kingdom.

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

A quartet of tiled art pieces adorn the floors of this prestigious art museum.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

At this small museum, visitors can view artifacts from the only battlefield in London during the War of the Roses.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.