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The crown jewels, Buckingham Palace, Camden Market…in London, history collides with art, fashion, food, and good British ale. A perfect day is different for everyone: culture aficionados shouldn't miss the Tate Modern and the Royal Opera House. If you love fashion, Oxford Street has shopping galore. For foodies, cream tea at Harrod’s or crispy fish from a proper chippy offers classic London flavor. Music and book buffs will love seeing Abbey Road and the Sherlock Holmes Museum (at 221B Baker Street, of course).
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1. Royal Academy of Arts
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4.5 based on 2,134 reviews
Founded in 1768, this thriving center of artistic excellence is the oldest fine arts institution in Britain, whose exhibitions attract over a million people each year.
Reviewed By 962AndrewY
Klimt / Schiele Drawings a wonderful exhibition, masterfully displayed with informative narrative about the relationship between the two painters and the cross pollenisation of ideas between them. Some of the drawings contain adult themes, so not suitable for the younger audience. There is a requirement to book a time slot for entry but once in the gallery there is no requirement to rush the appreciation of the drawings. All in all a very enjoyable display of artworks which shows the thinking and development of the ideas towards some of the best know art works of the 20th century.
2. Royal Institution of Great Britain
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4.5 based on 49 reviews
The Royal Institution is an independent charity that inspires everyone to think more deeply about science and its place in our lives. Join us for our thought provoking public events programme, workshops for children and adults, science shows, nationwide Masterclasses, and Christmas Lectures, or watch talks and short films on our award winning YouTube Channel.
Reviewed By Custer101 - Lancashire, United Kingdom
It had always been an ambition of mine to attend one of the lectures at the Royal Institution, and I finally managed to do this last week, the building is amazing, the staff were fantastic and the lecture was very informative! The lecturer engaged with the audience (including children) very well and kept everyone captivated.
3. BFI Southbank
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4.5 based on 221 reviews
Reviewed By Eric960 - Twickenham, United Kingdom
Have now been to four of The Musicals that are on until January. The BFI is fantastic, with lovely clean cinemas, and a fantastic selection of films. We love it at the end of the films when the audience start to give rapturous applause.
4. Royal Institute of British Architects
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4.5 based on 46 reviews
Reviewed By MixMasterMoll - Solihull, United Kingdom
I had been meaning to visit for some time, but had to see the Bauhaus exhibition as a fan of the movement. A very small exhibit but interesting to see how Bauhaus influenced british buildings. Excellent book shop for architecture fans.
5. HQS Wellington
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4.5 based on 37 reviews
Reviewed By BarbNewYork_NY - Fort Myers, United States
The staff was excellent and this was a very interesting and worthwhile stop while walking along the river. You can visit at your own pace and there is a lot to read and discover. Very compelling short film and exhibit about the Richmond, which got torpedoed, and the amazing Angus Murray who sailed the lifeboat and survivors 500 miles to rescue. Go and reflect. Worth a visit.
6. The Wiener Library
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4.5 based on 22 reviews
The Wiener Library is one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era. Formed in 1933, the Library's unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimony. The Library traces its roots back to Germany in the 1920s. Dr Alfred Wiener, a German Jew, having fought in WWI, returned to Germany in 1919 and was horrified at the surge of right-wing antisemitism, which blamed Jews for the defeat. Dr Wiener worked with the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith to combat antisemitism, writing, lobbying and speaking publicly. From 1925 (the year Hitler published Mein Kampf) he perceived a greater threat from the Nazi Party than any other antisemitic group or party. Under his influence an archive was started just to collect information about the Nazis, which formed the basis of campaigns to undermine their activities. Dr Wiener and his family fled Germany in 1933 and settled in Amsterdam. Dr Wiener's first archive is believed to have been destroyed. Later that year he set up the Jewish Central Information Office at the request of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association. The JCIO essentially continued the work of the earlier archive. Following the November Pogrom of 1938, Wiener prepared to bring his collection to the UK. It arrived the following summer and is believed to have opened on the day the Nazis invaded Poland. Throughout the War the JCIO served the British Government as it fought the Nazi regime. Increasingly the collection was referred to as ‘Dr Wiener's Library' and eventually this led to its renaming. Post-war, the Library assisted the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trial, amassed early survivor testimony and helped to shape the emerging academic study of the Holocaust. Today, the collection is among the largest and most respected in the world and continues to grow. In 2011 it moved to new premises in Russell Square and began a programme funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to improve access and open its collections to the widest possible audience.
Reviewed By richardw519 - Worcester, United Kingdom
Friendly staff and an amazingly warm welcome. A peaceful reading room, well resourced with archive materials available by request. Whether for an insight into how resources about the Holocaust and genocides are curated, or personal research, this library is well worth visiting.
7. The National Poetry Library
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4.0 based on 4 reviews
8. University of London
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4.0 based on 37 reviews
Reviewed By futtock21 - London, United Kingdom
Birkbeck College which specialises in evening education for the maturer students has occupied 39-47 Gordon Square as its School of Arts. I attended a tour for Heritage Open Days which embraced the ultra-modern and the not terribly well preserved Georgian. The ultra modern is a media centre designed especially for cinematic studies in a state of the art cinema with the comfiest seats imaginable (unless you arrive late in which case it’s the hard-backed naughty side seat for you) which are also lower than usual to avoid being disturbed by the arrival of anyone in the row in front). But it’s the interlocking pyramids in the corridors with their brightly painted walls and a window to the outside resembling a lens aperture which impress and startle the most. This is all in direct contest to the olssst part of the building with ground floor rooms concealing their original stuccoed ceilings with ghastly low level plastic. Only upstairs in rooms once occupied by the likes of John Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey have the original features been retained plus some period paintings by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
9. Hackney City Farm
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4.0 based on 91 reviews
Reviewed By P8233NTjulieb - London, United Kingdom
I organised a workshop for a number of families for us to learn all about bees and how they make honey. Ken, the beekeeper at Hackney City Farm put together a great agenda to engage both adults and children and teach us all about the history of bee keeping, distinguishing the different types of bees in a hive, followed by a trip up to the roof of the cafe to check out the hives. Having played a bit of 'where's Wally' with various pictures down in the education room, the childen were able to identify the queen in the real hives and see a waggle dance in action. It was great to get the kids so close to the action, where they could see nectar and honey in the hive frames, as well as identifying the cell where the next queen bee was developing. The kids also got quite excited about getting to wear the full beekeeping garb. Another task was to find pollinators in action down in the farm's garden. We also had time to cover the wider farm and see the ducks and chickens who had free rein of the yard as well as goats, pigs and ponies. Highly recommend organising a group visit, there is lots of inspiration on their site in terms of the programmes they can run.
10. Goethe Institute
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