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Tate Modern

 (33 Ratings)

Modern and contemporary art housed in a sexy old power station

Shut in 1981, the monolithic Giles Gilbert Scott-designed mid-century power station Bankside re-opened in 2000...

Southeast London · Bankside, London


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British Museum

 (22 Ratings)

History and culture on a grand scale

One of Britain's most vital and visited attractions is not, as the name suggests, British-specific. In fact very...

Central London · Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London


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Barbican Centre

 (18 Ratings)

Major arts destination

An impressive if infuriatingly convoluted brutalist-style arts complex, the Barbican Centre (opened in 1982) was...

East London · Silk St, London


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Victoria and Albert Museum (aka the V&A)

 (16 Ratings)

Seriously darling institution dedicated to the decorative arts

The V&A, as it is commonly known, boasts the world's largest collection of decorative arts and design, with 4.5 million...

Southwest London · Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London


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The National Gallery

 (11 Ratings)

Britain's unmissable encyclopaedic collection of paintings

Stately but somehow not grand in its position perched above Trafalgar Square β€” and seemingly oblivious to the...

Central London · Trafalgar Square, London


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The Photographers' Gallery

 (8 Ratings)

Britain's first independent gallery devoted to photography

Started in 1971 on Great Newport St as a space for photographers to display, discuss and sell their work and to promote...

Soho · 16–18 Ramillies St, London


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Kenwood House (Iveagh Bequest)

 (7 Ratings)

Stately jewel with a masterful art collection and a view

Perched at the northern most tip of Hampstead Heath — the most northern part of London you need (and should)...

North London · Hampstead Lane, Hampstead, London


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Royal Academy of Arts

 (5 Ratings)

18th-century institution still going strong

A privately funded artist-and-architect-led institution devoted to the visual arts through exhibitions, education...

Central London · Burlington House, Piccadilly, London


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Whitechapel Gallery

 (7 Ratings)

The East End's original art gallery

Less critical to the local Whitechapel community than it once was, the publicly funded Whitechapel Gallery nevertheless...

East London · 80 Whitechapel High St, London


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Dulwich Picture Gallery

 (7 Ratings)

Out-of-the-way treasure of European masters

Described by the Sunday Telegraph as "the most beautiful small art gallery in the world", this south-of-the-river jewel...

South London · Gallery Rd, Dulwich, London


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