Wednesday, 30 May 2012

It's really free?? =/




You may be surprised to know that a lot of London's museums and art galleries offer free admission. We write some of them that you can visit for free all year round.

The Natural History Museum is one of the big three museums in South Kensington. It is a wonderful Victorian building housing. The Natural History Museum is famous for its dinosaur skeletons.

The British Museum opened in 1753 and has prided itself on remaining free for all that time. The British Museum have, more or less, 7 million objects and it would probably take a week to see everything. The collection of Egyptian and Greek antiquities are the largest and best known in the world.

The National Gallery takes up the entire north side of Trafalgar Square. It have important collections of Western European paintings in the world from around 1250 onwards. Its masterpieces include artworks from Botticelli, Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Cezanne, Hogarth, and Gainsborough.

The Science Museum was founded in 1857 with objects shown at the Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace.

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