Best Museums in United Kingdom
United Kingdom is home to 16 world-class museums across 5 cities, from ancient art and archaeology to modern and contemporary collections.
All Museums in United Kingdom
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London
The British Museum
Dedicated to human history, art and culture, located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
Founded 1753
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London
The National Gallery
An art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London.
Founded 1824
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London
Tate Modern
Britain's national gallery of international modern and contemporary art, housed in the former Bankside Power Station on the South Bank of the Thames.
Founded 2000
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London
Tate Britain
The national gallery of British art from 1500 to today, on the banks of the Thames at Millbank.
Founded 1897
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London
Victoria and Albert Museum
The world's largest museum of applied and decorative arts and design, with 2.27 million objects.
Founded 1852
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London
Natural History Museum
A cathedral of nature in South Kensington, holding 80 million specimens from across the natural world.
Founded 1881
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London
Science Museum
South Kensington's free museum of science, technology, medicine, and industry.
Founded 1857
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London
National Portrait Gallery
The world's first portrait gallery, holding the most extensive collection of British portraits ever assembled.
Founded 1856
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London
The Wallace Collection
An aristocratic collection of European fine and decorative arts in Hertford House, given to the nation in 1897.
Founded 1900
London
The Courtauld Gallery
An intimate gallery in Somerset House holding one of Britain's greatest collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting.
Founded 1932
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London
Imperial War Museum
Britain's national museum of conflict from the First World War to the present, in a former asylum in Lambeth.
Founded 1917
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Edinburgh
National Galleries of Scotland
Three connected galleries holding Scotland's national collection of art from the Renaissance to today.
Founded 1859
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Edinburgh
National Museum of Scotland
Scotland's flagship national museum in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town — free entry, covering Scottish history, science, technology, world cultures, and design.
Founded 1998
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Liverpool
Tate Liverpool
Modern and contemporary art on the Albert Dock waterfront, in a converted Victorian warehouse.
Founded 1988
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Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester's principal public art collection, particularly strong in Pre-Raphaelite painting.
Founded 1823
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Birmingham
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
A Victorian civic museum holding the world's largest public collection of Pre-Raphaelite art.
Founded 1885