Citiwalks: Walk around London's museums
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[A] Freud Museum [20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3]. Freud's home in England, including the couch on which all of Freud's patients reclined during their psychoanalysis.
[B] Lords Museum [St. John's Wood Road, NW8]. "The home of cricket".
[C] Science Museum [Exhibition Road, SW7], with exhibitions of scientific, technological and medical advances since the 18th century.
[D] Natural History Museum [Cromwell Road, SW7]. Enjoy the natural world, develop your scientific knowledge and understand the impact of science on your life.
[E] Victoria and Albert Museum [Cromwell Road, SW7]. The V&A is the "greatest museum of art and design", holding over 3000 years worth of artifacts from many of the world's richest cultures.
[F] Wellington Museum [Hyde Park Corner, W1]. Located in Apsley House, home of the first Duke of Wellington.
[G] Handel House Museum [25 Brook Street, W1]. This museum, home to the George Frederic Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759, celebrates Handel's life and works.
[H] The British Museum [Great Russell Street, WC1], with a collection of over 7 million objects, including the Rosetta sone and Elgin Marbles.
[I] The British Library [Euston Road, NW1] contains numerous national treasures, including the Magna Carta, in its exhibition galleries.
[J] London's Transport Museum [WC2]. (Closed until Autumn 2007). The collections make up the most comprehensive record of urban mass transit in the world.
[K] Churchill Museum [King Charles Street, SW1]. The secret underground wartime headquarters of the British War Cabinet during WWII.
[L] Sir John Soane's Museum [13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A] houses this architect's collections and personal effects.
[M] Dickens Museum [48 Doughty Street, WC1] exhibits material relating to this great Victorian novelist and social commentator.
[N] Imperial War Museum [Lambeth Road, SE1]. Weapons, vehicles, communications technology from World War I to the present.
[O] Museum of London [London Wall, EC2], communicating London’s history, archaeology and contemporary cultures to a wider world.
[P] The Old Operating Theatre Museum [St. Thomas Street, SE1], England's oldest surviving operating theatre.
[Q] Fashion and Textile Museum [Bermondsey Street, SE1], focusing on women’s fashion from the late 1940’s to the present day.
[R] The Design Museum [Shad Thames, SE1] is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary design, ranging from industrial design, graphics and multimedia, to fashion and architecture.