British Museum
The British Museum is a comprehensive museum in London, England. It is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. It was founded in 1753.
The museum currently has more than 8 million pieces of collections. Due to space limitations, there are still a large number of collections that have not been publicly displayed.
The British Museum is divided into 10 research and professional pavilions: Africa, Oceania and the Americas Pavilion; Ancient Egypt and Sudan Pavilion; Asia Pavilion; British, European and Prehistoric Pavilions. Some oldest collections are dating back more than 5,000 years.
The National Gallery
The National Gallery is an art gallery located on the north side of Trafalgar Square in central London. It was founded in 1824. It collected as many as 2,300 paintings from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Since the collection belongs to the British public, the museum is open to the public for free.
The National Gallery is exhibited in the chronological order. The early Renaissance has a charcoal sketch of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous “The Virgin and Child and St. Anne, the Baptist St. John”. In the heyday, there were Italian and Germanic paintings. Between 1600 and 1700, there were paintings of the Netherlands, Italy, France and Spain.
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is the UK’s largest and most famous modern art center, named after the founder Henry Tate, which features contemporary art from the 20th century;
It is located on the south bank of the Thames, opposite the St. Paul’s Cathedral, connecting them to the Millennium Bridge across the Thames.
The Tate Modern is covered in brown brick walls and has a steel structure inside, was originally an imposing power plant, and its towering chimney is its symbol. Tate Modern now is rebuilt by two young Swiss architects, Jacqes Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre is the largest multimedia center in Europe. it combines theatre, film, music and other art exhibits. It was opened in 1982. It is the venue for the famous London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It was also the venue for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.
The Barbican Center includes: Barbican Theatre, Bitter Theatre, Barbican Art Gallery , Gallery, Barbican Cinema, and a number of informal performance venues, three restaurants, seven conference halls, two trade shows Pavilion.
The Barbican Library is located on the second floor and is one of the five libraries in London and the largest public library in London.
Natural History Museum
The Museum of Natural History is a large museum on the road to the South Kensington Fair in London, next to the Science Museum and V&A.
The museum has approximately 70 million specimens of biological and earth sciences, including five themes: botanical, entomological, mineralogical, paleontological and zoological natural history. The museum is a world-renowned research center specializing in taxonomy, identification and conservation.
The museum is well known for its dinosaur skeletons and its magnificent architecture. Entering from the main entrance, you can see the large beam dragon model of the majestic central hall, which is very shocking.
In the winter, the annual Christmas skating rink is open, and it is a good choice to relax after a stroll through the exhibition hall.