London’s quirky museums

Where to go and what to see in London to get the most from your trip – a 3-day itinerary from destination expert and travel writer Annabelle Thorpe.

Where to go and what to see in London to get the most from your trip – a 5-day itinerary from destination expert and travel writer Annabelle Thorpe.

Where to go and what to see in London to get the most from your trip – 9 brilliant, bucket list-packed days recommended by destination expert and travel writer Annabelle Thorpe.

The house museum of a family of Huguenot weavers living in London from 1724 to 1914. Its ten rooms are cluttered with period features and multi-sensory installations that capture what life might have been like in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The 300-year-old home of Dr Samuel Johnson, who compiled the first English dictionary here (on display) in 1755. The townhouse is one of the few remnants of Georgian London remaining in the City.

The Foundling Hospital was Britain’s first home for abandoned children – today, it’s a museum telling the moving story of the 25,000 orphans raised there.

One of the world’s oldest and most curious natural history museums, with 62,000 obscure specimens. Musty cases are stuffed with monkey skeletons, pickled toads, jars of worms, obscure species (a three-toothed puffer fish), endangered and extinct ones (dodo bones).

World-class culture, fashion, music, food and history – and a mind-boggling array of bucket list experiences – packed into one extraordinary, incomparable destination.