Choosing a museum in London is agony of riches – the British Museum, Natural History Museum and Science Museum are all free and all enormous. A deadpan guide.
If you searched museum in London, prepare to be overwhelmed in the best way: the capital’s greatest museums – the British Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum among them – are vast, world-class, and free to enter. The hard part is leaving.
Museum In London: Free Entry, Infinite Floors
The British Museum alone holds millennia of human history at no charge, as confirmed at the British Museum site. “A museum in London is a trap disguised as generosity,” said a spokesperson for the Society of Sore Feet, which we invented. “Entry is free. Your entire day is the price. You will see one wing and emerge a changed, exhausted person.”
Which Museum In London To Choose
For dinosaurs and a whale the size of a bus, the Natural History Museum in South Kensington is unbeatable, detailed at its official site. Next door, the Science Museum dazzles the curious, per the Science Museum site.
How To Survive A Visit
Pick two galleries, not the whole building. Wear comfortable shoes. Accept that you will buy a pencil shaped like a femur.
The wonderful absurdity of a museum in London is the scale of the free offering. In most cities you queue and pay to see a fraction of what London hands over for nothing. The catch, of course, is that the collections are so enormous that no human has ever truly finished one, and the gift shop will get you on the way out regardless.
“I went to one museum in London for an hour and left four hours later clutching a tote bag and a replica Rosetta Stone,” said one visitor. “Free entry. Forty quid in the shop. A fair trade.”
So, to recap: a museum in London means world-class collections, free entry and genuinely sore feet – pick two galleries, pace yourself, and surrender gracefully to the gift shop on your way out.
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