# Recommend me small museums in London -I'm visiting 100 this year. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242 "2011-01-11T18:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242/21 "2011-02-08T13:43:55Z")
Bonzer: yeah, it might start to get tricky; I’m not restricting my self to London, but it would be extra cool if I did manage to get to 100 within, say, the Oystercard boundaries. Cool might not be the right word there, but you know what I mean. I’m finally a tenth of the way there, so am just about on track despite a couple of dramas trying to derail me. I have an extra membership to the V&A available, so I’ve decided to offer it up as a competition: [Free Victoria and Albert Museum Membership!](http://100museumsinayear.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/competition-free-victoria-and-albert-museum-membership/) (The museum reviews are up there too, of course). ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242/22 "2011-02-08T22:26:59Z")
The [Royal Mews](http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=31) was fun to see. And you might as well join the crowd to watch Changing the Guards while you’re there… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242/23 "2011-02-08T22:35:55Z")
I hope to win the V&A memebership! My husband and I are going to London and driing out to Manchester for a few weeks vacation this spring. If you are going outside of London for museums, I’d like to see reviews of the [Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery](http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1965T2441.1) and the [St Albans Museums](http://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/Media/Museum-Images/Set-of-Tudor-Roundels). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242/24 "2011-02-23T17:12:06Z")
> [@Slade](#): > > If you’ve got a strong stomach, the Royal College of Surgeons’ Hunterian Museum takes some beating. I went there today. It was even more gruesome than the Leprosy Museum in Bergen. Excellent stuff 😃 If you want to do two Museums in one day, then I passed by the Steam Museum “the most important historic site of the water supply industry in Britain”, and the Musical Museum " a comprehensive array of sophisticated reproducing pianos, orchestrions, orchestrelles, residence organs and violin players" today. Apparently they’re only worth going to see on a weekend, as that’s when they power up their respective devices. I’m going this weekend. Go to Kew Bridge train/bus stop. They are both right there ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242/25 "2011-02-23T17:30:18Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > I went there today. It was even more gruesome than the Leprosy Museum in Bergen. Excellent stuff 😃 > > If you want to do two Museums in one day, then I passed by the Steam Museum “the most important historic site of the water supply industry in Britain”, and the Musical Museum " a comprehensive array of sophisticated reproducing pianos, orchestrions, orchestrelles, residence organs and violin players" today. Apparently they’re only worth going to see on a weekend, as that’s when they power up their respective devices. > > I’m going this weekend. Go to Kew Bridge train/bus stop. They are both right there I do actually have those both planned to do together - GMTA and all that. But yeah, on weekdays (outside of school holidays, at least) they’re not fully open. That’s the case with a lot of small museums, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242/26 "2011-02-23T18:03:51Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > If you are going outside of London for museums, I’d like to see reviews of the [Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery](http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1965T2441.1) and the [St Albans Museums](http://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/Media/Museum-Images/Set-of-Tudor-Roundels). St. Albans is really only worth it for Veralanium, but if you went on a Sunday, you do another twofer in conjunction with the [DeHavilland Museum](http://www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk/location.html) (the aircraft, not Olivia ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242/27 "2011-02-23T18:08:50Z")
The V&A Museum of Childhood > **[Young V&A](https://www.vam.ac.uk/young)** > > Sparking creativity now and for the future with a space to imagine, play and design ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242/28 "2011-02-25T17:34:55Z")
Thanks **Tapioca Dextrin**! I’m not sure if I can get my traveling companion to go to an aircraft museum, but I’ll add it tot the list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-small-museums-in-london-im-visiting-100-this-year/567242.md?page=1)