Twitter, a place where people chat about their latest cup of coffee (guilty!) or hang on the latest comment from tabloid celeb X (not guilty!), also has a more worthy side to it. Quite a few museums have leapt onto the Twitter bandwagon and use it as a good way of communicating either news about what they are up to, or just random chatter that is relevant to their topic.

For example, the Natural History Museum has a “species of the day” series going on at the moment, along with general natural history chatter – or there is the Imperial War Museum who regularly mention “this day in history” type events from previous wars.

A group have therefore declared that today (1st Feb) is Follow a Museum Day, and Twitter users are exhorted to click the necessary and keep informed with what museums are up to.

I naturally follow about every museum in London I can find, mainly for the purposes of maintaining the events list, but also as some of them are genuinely quite interesting.

For your convenience, you can follow all of the London museums with a single click by subscribing to a list I maintain – @IanVisits/London-Museums.

Alternatively, the full list I follow is below – there is also a list over at the Follow a Museum Day website.

London Museums on Twitter
	BarbicanCentre Barbican Centre | London
	BFHouse Ben Franklin House | 36 Craven St London
	bletchleypark Kelsey Griffin | Bletchley, UK
	britishlibrary The British Library | London NW1 2DB
	britishmuseum British Museum | London
	Burghhouse1704 Burgh House
	DesignMuseum Design Museum | London
	DickensMuseum Dickens Museum | 48 Doughty Street, London
	DulwichGallery Dulwich Gallery | Gallery Road, Dulwich, London
	ExploreWellcome Wellcome Collection | London, UK
	GEFFRYE London
	HornimanMuseum Horniman Museum | Forest Hill, London SE23
	ICALondon The ICA | The Mall, London
	I_W_M Imperial War Museum | London, Duxford, Manchester
	ldnfilmmuseum London Film Museum | County Hall, London
	ltmuseum L T Museum | London
	MuseumChildhood Museum of Childhood | Bethnal Green, London
	MuseumofLondon Museum of London | London, UK
	Musevery Museum of Everything | London
	NHM_London NaturalHistoryMuseum | South Kensington, London
	postalheritage BPMA | London, Essex and Shropshire
	RaggedSchool Ragged School Museum | London E3
	RAFMUSEUM RAF Museum | North London + Shropshire
	sciencemuseum Science Museum | Exhibition Road, London
	SomersetHouse Somerset House
	Tate London, Liverpool and St Ives
	UCLMuseums Central London
	V_and_A V&A | London
	WallaceMuseum Wallace Collection | Central London