Along with visiting a few galleries in London, I also visited a few museums. Between the three of us we all had a tickets to different things on different days, with some crossover.

Before the. museums I took mum to Prufrock for coffee and breakfast.

The Natural History Museum

I think I got mixed up with the days, but I don’t think this was the same day as coffee at Prufrock – that might have been a gallery day.

The Natural History Museum in London is one of the world’s leading museums of nature and science. Located in South Kensington, it features a vast collection of fossils, animals, and minerals.

It is at this point that I realise I don’t have a lot of photos from the Natural History Museum, or of the terrace houses in the area. It was a good to visit. The minerals were probably the best bit.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Our next stop, maybe on the same day, I think this was the day mum and I went to a few museums, but not the day we went to Prufrock for breakfast, was the Victoria and Albert Museum.

This museum focused on art and design. There were a few exhibits on fashion and clothes that looked at the influences on locally produced pieces from imports “from far away lands.”

The best bit was an exhibition on photography. Again, not many photos from this day. I also remember the room for the photography had very subdued lighting. The only issue with the V and A was trying to get out – we had to back track a few times and go up several floors to go back down again in the right place.

The British Museum

On an entirely different day dad and I visited a couple of different museums. The first was The British Museum.

We focused on artefacts from British history. I think dad was looking for some specific things from the Roman era.

Fun fact, the light in the museum on The Great Dish was very yellow, not a little yellow, very yellow, I thought it was gold, but it is in fact made of silver.

While we were mostly looking at local artefacts I did manage to find a clock from the 16th century. When I say clock, I mean a table ornament nearly 1m long that looks like a ship, made of gold.

Th clock maker was from Augsburg, Germany and I had a friend living there at the time, working in a rocket factory.

The London Transport Museum

On the same day as the British Museum dad and I visited the London Transport Museum.

This was a really fun museum. They had a lot of information on the history of the London train networks. It is always a little wild to me that the first underground lines opened in the 1860s and that they of course were not electric trains. Then it is almost equally as wild to learn that the first electric line opened in the 1890s and the last steam powered service stopped running in the 1960s.

The Design Museum

At the end of our last day in London we made a stop at The Design Museum, it was on the train line back to where we were staying.

We didn’t have an enormous amount of time here, but we went through a couple of the permanent exhibits which were excellent.

I highly recommend a visit.