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Tickets Alert: Out of hours Titanosaur tours at the Natural History Museum

If you want to get up close and personal with the largest dinosaur on display but prefer to avoid the crowds, then the Natural History Museum is offering early morning visits.

London is getting a new Museum — of Shakespeare

The site of what was probably William Shakespeare's first theatre will open as a new museum dedicated to the playwright and the theatre.

London’s Hunterian Museum reopens next month

Closed for the past six years, one of London's more interesting museums will reopen in May as a free to visit medical museum.

British Museum now offering free membership for young people

The British Museum has scrapped the £30 per year charge for people who join its young membership scheme, in a move that's likely to boost membership of potential long term supporters long into the future.

The Museum of Neoliberalism

There's a museum in south London that looks at economic policies and will either leave you nodding in fierce agreement or shaking your head at the naivety of the creator.

Old Operating Theatre museum reopening with free open day

Above an old church next to London Bridge station is an old operating theatre, which is now a museum, and will reopen next month following restoration work.

A huge Titanosaur goes on display this weekend

A dinosaur that’s four times heavier than Dippy the Diplodocus is going on display at the Natural History Museum this weekend, filling one of the museum's larger galleries.

A visit to the refurbished RAF Biggin Hill Museum & Chapel

Sitting next to Biggin Hill Aiport in southeast London is a newish museum that's recently been refurbished to tell the story of how it was one of London's lines of defence during WWII.

Pay a visit to Charles Darwin’s home at Down House

In 1842, Charles Darwin and his family moved to a large house on what is today the edges of Greater London, and today it's a museum to his legacy that's open to the public.

Museums and galleries visitors still down by a quarter on pre-pandemic levels

Museums and galleries are recovering from the pandemic, with visitor numbers jumping last year, but still down by nearly a quarter on pre-pandemic numbers.

Museum of London starts packing after its closure

Since it closed a few months ago, the Museum of London has been preparing to pack its huge collection for the move to its new home, and the first item has now gone into the packing case.

More dates announced to walk through the Mail Rail tunnels

The Postal Museum has announced fresh dates for the chance to walk through the tunnels under Mount Pleasent where the Mail Rail used to carry the post.

Revamped Museum of Childhood reopens as Young V&A in July

The former V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green has confirmed its opening date following a £13 million redevelopment and will reopen as Young V&A.

Tickets Alert: Open weekend at the London Transport Museum’s overflow depot

Like most museums, the London Transport Museum can't put everything it owns on display, so keeps a lot in storage, and a few times a year, that store is opened to the public.

David Bowie’s archive donated to the V&A Museum

David Bowie's archive of more than 80,000 items has been donated to the V&A Museum so that it can be conserved and go on display to the public.

A new museum for the City of London

A property development is offering a new permanent home for the Migration Museum, currently based in Lewisham, with three floors including exhibition and event space, a cafe and shop.

Tickets Alert: Tours of the British Museum’s round reading room

Sitting in the centre of the British Museum is a huge Round Reading Room, with a massive dome, and although long closed to the public, the museum has started offering tours.

Campaign seeks to return Florence Nightingale’s customised wheelchair to the UK

Florence Nightingale's specially customised wheelchair, which has been in a US university for over a century, could go on display in London's Florence Nightingale Museum, if the museum can raise the money to acquire it.

Tate Modern loses privacy court case from neighbouring flat owners

Flat owners in the Neo Bankside development next to Tate Modern have won an appeal that could see the gallery having to close or redesign a public walkway around its extension building.

More tours of disused and hidden parts of the London Underground

More tickets have been released for the London Transport Museum’s tours of the private and disused parts of the London Underground.

Museum of London asks the public to donate their London fashions

The Museum of London Docklands is planning an exhibition later this year on London's Jewish fashion designers and is looking for people to contribute items for display.

Visit the curious Amersham Fair Organ Museum

If you wander into a small industrial estate on the right day, you'll hear the distinctive sound of the funfair coming out of a building -- this is the Amersham Fair Organ museum and it's open just once a month.

Handel & Hendrix museum confirms its reopening date

The Handel & Hendrix museum in central London, which has been closed since September 2021 for refurbishment, has confirmed that it will reopen on Thursday 18th May 2023.

Pollock’s Toy Museum forced to close

Central London's wonderfully quirky toy museum has been forced to close after it was unable to secure a new lease with the landlords.