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London: 4 museums you should visit

London: 4 museums you should visit

London offers so many museums to visit, free or not, that even if you stay in the city a month, you probably would not be able to attend them all! During my last trip to London, at the end of April 2018, I visited four museums that I still did not know, and today I want to talk about them in this post.
Museum of LondonI start talking about the Museum of London, located in the London City area and whose intent is to tell the history of the city from prehistory to the present day. The museum was opened in 1976 as part of the Barbican Estate, and the exhibition was put on hold taking objects previously exhibited in other museums and the Corporations collections (previously held in Guildhall). The architects who structured the exhibition, Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, have created an obligatory path that follows the chronological
Museum of London order of the city’s history. Inside there are original artefacts, models, photos and diagrams; looking out of the museum windows you can see remains of the Roman walls. At the moment there is also the London Stone, which is normally located at 111 Cannon Street: it is said that this stone indicates the centre of London and that it was from this that the Romans calculated the distances from Londinium. For any other information, I refer you to the museum official website. To visit it in full and in depth, consider staying at least an hour and a half (maybe even two). The address is 150 London Wall (barbican metro), and admission is free.
Guildhall Art Gallery A museum that I visited while looking for the remains of the ancient Londinium, it’s the Guildhall Art Gallery. Close to the financial district, this art gallery was founded in 1886 to house a “Collection of artistic treasures worthy of the capital” and inside there are works made from 1670 to today. The underground floor houses the remains of the Roman amphitheatre with over 7,000 seats. The gallery is open from Monday to Saturday from 10 to 17 and Sunday from 12 to 17. Just after the doors, there is a metal detector under which all visitors must pass (it doesn’t take much time to be able to enter and start the visit). As for the official website, unfortunately, I didn’t find the official one! You can find information through the City of London official website (yes, the London financial district has an official website). The address is Guildhall Yard, and the admission ticket is free.
Bank of England: il museo The Bank of England Museum intrigued me enough, even when I discovered it looking for information about any London museums I had not visited yet. The museum is organised into various sections, divided by centuries, and it explores the history of the British National Bank since it was opened (1694) to the present day. The exhibition is organised so that visitors can observe and understand how the economy has changed over time; in some adjacent cases there are also numerous banknotes: the evolution of the pound “seen in a few steps”. The museum is open every day from 10 to 17, and all further information can be found on the official museum website. The museum is located in the same building as the bank,  admission is free, and the entrance is in Bartholomew Lane.
Postal museum Before leaving for this trip to London, I never thought of finding a museum dedicated to the evolution of the postal service (of any country around the world)! Instead, in London, I found the Postal Museum. The museum tells how the country’s postal system has evolved over the centuries and its importance for the country (and the people who use it to communicate with distant people). The exhibition is divided into two separate buildings. In the first building the visitors can discover some of the models of trains used to move the correspondence; in the second building, there is an exposition aimed at telling the evolution of the English postal service. Not cheap, adults pay £ 17.05 and children £ 10.45 for the visit and the train ride (if you do not want to do the train ride kids get for free, and the adults pay “only” 11 pounds). On the official website they recommend to take into account at least two hours for a visit, better if three: I took about an hour and a half, maybe less, but given how much fun the children I have crossed there I advise you to consider a lot more time! The museum address is 15-20 Phoenix Pl.

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