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- Victoria & Albert, Cromwell Road
Has the most furniture.
Daily 10-5:45, Fri some galleries till 10
- Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Road
Re-created domestic interiors from 1600 to the present, with a walled herb garden.
Tu-Su 10-4/5
- The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square
Museum of world-sourced antiques, sculpture, artworks and armour, set within a palatial townhouse.
Daily 10-5. Free
- Banqueting House, Whitehall
Only remaining part of Whitehall Palace where visitors can admire fine painted ceilings by Rubens.
-- temporarily closed --
- Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street
Manuscripts and personal items displayed in author's former home, where he wrote Oliver Twist.
Wed-Sun 10-4/5
- Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street
Restored Spitalfields home displaying 18th-century lifestyle, with private tours and events.
- book in advance for specific events. complicated
- Fenton House, Hampstead Grove
Former merchant's home with a walled garden and Georgian furniture and keyboard collections.
£11. book in advance. open Fri, Sat and bank holiday Mondays
- Kenwood House, Hampstead Lane - I mistakenly skipped over on prior trip
A 17th-century country house within Hampstead Heath with restored interiors and notable artworks.
- Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
Freud family home from 1938 to the early 1980s, has Sigmund's couch, his many antiquities & books.
10:30-5, not Tues. £12
- Hampton Court Palace, Molesey
Famous seat of Henry VIII and his many wives, this palace received elegant Stuart-era modernisation.
Advance tickets recommended.
- Keats House, 10 Keats Grove
Museum and library in Keats' former residence, with collections of letters, effects and poems.
Wed, Th, Fri, Sun 11-5
- Kew Palace Royal Botanic Gardens
Daily 10-7, last entry 6. £21.50
Cheaper to buy tickets online
- Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road
Former home of Lord Leighton with intricately tiled Arab Hall, paintings and sculpture collection.
10-5:30, not Tues.
- Queen's House Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich
16th century mansion now used to display items from the National Maritime Museum's collection.
Daily 10-5
- Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Eccentric 19th-century collector's home, packed with classical sculpture, paintings and curiosities.
Wed-Sun 10-5
- Spencer House, 27 St. James Place
Elegant city-bound mansion with lavish interiors and built by ancestors of Princess Diana.
Sun 10-5:30
- Apsley House, 149 Piccadilly
Museum in the Iron Duke's Georgian house with a fine art collection and a Canova statue of Napoleon.
Wed-Sun 11-5