An art London museum guide to the free giants – Tate, the National Gallery and the V&A – plus the deadpan truth about queues, gift shops and tote bags.
If you searched art London museum, here is the best news in British culture: London’s greatest art museums – Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the National Gallery and the V&A – have free permanent collections. You can stand before a masterpiece for the price of nothing, then spend 40 pounds in the gift shop on a tote bag.
Art London Museum Guide: The Free Giants
The National Gallery on Trafalgar Square holds centuries of Western painting and charges nothing for it, as you can confirm at the National Gallery’s official site. “We give away access to Van Gogh and Turner for free,” said a spokesperson for the Society of Suspiciously Generous Institutions, which we invented. “The catch is the temporary exhibitions, which cost more than a flight to the country the painting came from.”
The Best Art London Museum For Modern Work
Tate Modern, a converted power station on the South Bank, is the art London museum for the contemporary and the confusing, with details at Tate’s website. A short walk over the Millennium Bridge delivers you to St Paul’s and a strong urge to call your work “a practice.”
For Design And The Decorative Arts
The V&A in South Kensington is the world’s leading museum of art and design, documented at the V&A’s site, and contains so much that you will leave having seen roughly four percent of it and a gift shop you will remember forever.
“I went to one art London museum and accidentally spent six hours and my entire lunch budget on postcards,” said one visitor. “Worth it. I now own a fridge magnet of a Rothko.”
So, for the record: the best art London museum is whichever free one is nearest, the masterpieces cost nothing, and the only thing that will empty your wallet is the shop by the exit.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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