Museums of London

- British Museum, Tate Modern, National Gallery of Art

London has many famous museums. The ones we visited are National Gallery of Art (classic art museum), British Museum (history, art and culture museum), Tate Modern (modern art) and Madame Tussaud's (was musuem) as well as Tussaud's Rock Circus (now closed). Most major museums in London are not even very impressive, they also have free entrance!

National Gallery of Art:

National Gallery of Art, situated at Trafalgar Square, in the heart of London, is a classic art museum situated in a neo-classicist building. It was founded in 1824 and has about 6 million visitors annually. In 1991 the Sainsbury Wing was added. It has 2,300 painting, many by famous artists, from the 13th-20th century, as Rubens, Velázquez, William Turner, Bellini, Michelangelo, Paul Cézanne, Raphael, Claude Monet, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Leonardo da Vinci. With other words most of the most famous artists are represented, but photography was not allowed unfortunately. The entry is free.
We visited in 1999 and in 2005, so we skipped it in 2022 but sat outside on the grass.

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British Museum:

British Museum is situated in the Bloomsbury district in the West End. The museum is very large and has departments from different parts of the world; The Greek/Roman division, the Asian division, the Egyptian division. The original Rosetta Stone can be seen at British MuseumIt is London's 2nd most visited attraction. The first part of the museum, Montagu House, was completed in 1676. The museum was established in 1753. The classical architecture of the museum is also very interesting. A cool feature is that for the millennium (year 2000) they built an enormous glass roof designed by Norman Foster over the old buildings, creating a huge courtyard, called the Great Court. There is a library inside the dome, in the middle of the Great Court. Just like many other museums in London, the entry is free.

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Tate Modern:

Tate Modern is a the national modern art museum and gallery, opened as late as in year 2000. It is huge and one of the most visited museums in the world, and the most visited in London. It is huge and consists of two buildings; the former Bankside Powerstation with its huge turbine hall/atrium inside and the newly built 11-storey highrise Switch House (formerly Blavatnik Bldg) with sloping exterior from 2016, that has an observation deck that is currently closed (2022), the balcony in the Powerstation is open for views though. The underground tanks of the former powerstation are now also used for art and performance. The architect firm Herzog & de Meuron has designed both buildings. Just like many other museums in London, the entry is free, but you have to pay extra for each one of the temporary exhibitions.

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