Housed in the Bank of England itself this museum shows the history of the Bank from 1694, when it was founded by the Royal Charter to raise money for foreign wars.

Exhibits include a gold bar dating from ancient times, unique coin and bank note collections, as well as other items uncovered when the bank was rebuilt in the 1930's such as Roman pottery and a mosaic floor.

The museum illustrates the work of the bank and the financial system and offers a unique insight into of the history of London's currency.

One of London’s most visited attractions, this museum draws an average of five million punters each year through its marvellous porticoed main gate on Great Russell St (a few go through the quieter Montague Pl entrance). 
 
One of the world’s oldest and finest museums, the British Museum started in 1749 in the form of royal physician Hans Sloane’s ‘cabinet of curiosities’ – which he later bequeathed to the country – and carried on expanding its collection (which now numbers some seven million items) through judicious acquisition and the controversial plundering of empire. It’s an exhaustive and exhilarating stampede through world cultures, with galleries devoted to Egypt, Western Asia, Greece, the Orient, Africa, Italy, the Etruscans, the Romans, prehistoric and Roman Britain and medieval antiquities. 
 
The museum is huge, so make a few focused visits if you have time, and consider the choice of tours. 

The Brunel Museum is a London-based museum, dedicated to the Brunels, and their great achievements, notably the Thames Tunnel, birthplace of the tube system.

The present building was a roofless ruin twenty-five years ago, and six years ago the museum was open to just 500 visitors a year.

Today it is open every day and runs community & education events that draw over 15,000 people to the Museum each year. 
The Brunel Museum is housed in Marc Brunel’s original Engine House, and features a fascinating exhibition on the Thames Tunnel’s construction and history. The museum has a bookshop and its own café serving coffee and home-made cakes.

The Charles Dickens Museum is the world's most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator.

Synonymous with Victorian England, this is the only surviving London home of Dickens (from 1837 until 1839), author of such classics as 'Oliver Twist', 'A Christmas Carol' and 'David Copperfield'.

The building at 48 Doughty Street was threatened with demolition in 1923, but was saved by the Dickens Fellowship, founded in 1902, who raised the mortgage and bought the property's freehold. The house was renovated and the Dickens House Museum was opened in 1925, under the direction of an independent trust, now a registered charity.

The museum has since been renamed the Charles Dickens Museum.

Spread over four floors, the Charles Dickens Museum holds the world's most important collection of paintings, rare editions, manuscripts, original furniture and other items relating to the life and work of Dickens.[4] Perhaps the best-known exhibit is the portrait of Dickens known as Dickens' Dream by R. W. Buss, an original illustrator of The Pickwick Papers. This unfinished portrait shows Dickens in his study at Gads Hill Place surrounded by many of the characters he had created.

The Churchill Museum & Cabinet War Rooms are dedicated to the life of the "greatest Briton", Sir Winston Churchill, and the secret underground headquarters that were the nerve centre of Britain´s war effort.
In 1940, shortly after becoming Prime Minister, Churchill stood in the War Cabinet Room and declared: 'This is the room from which I will direct the war'. Today, you can step back in time to explore the secret headquarters where Churchill and his staff changed the course of history.

The Museum is on the site of England’s oldest prison and dates back to 1144. Visitors will experience a hands on educational and fun experience allowing them to handle original artefacts including torture devices.
The Clink Prison Museum is built upon the original site of the Clink Prison. The Prison dates back to 1144 making it one of England’s oldest, if not the oldest Prison. Visitors will experience a hands on educational experience allowing them to handle original artefacts, including torture devices, as well as the opportunity to view and hear the amazing stories of the inmates and the notorious Southbank. 
Owned by the Bishop of Winchester, The Clink Prison was used to control the Southbank of London known as “The Liberty of The Clink”.This area housed much of London’s entertainment establishments including four theatres, bull-baiting, bear-baiting, inns and many other darker entertainments.
 
The Clink Prison was only a small part of a vast complex on the Bankside that the Bishop owned called Winchester House. At one point in history Henry VIII planned to take control of the palace and use it as his own. Parts of the Great Hall still stand even today including the world famous Rose Arch Window preserved by English Heritage.
 
Visitors to the area included individuals such as William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Sir Francis Drake, Geoffrey Chaucer and many more.

The Design Museum is a museum by the River Thames near Tower Bridge in central London, England.

The museum covers product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. It was founded in 1989 and claims to be the first museum of modern design.[1]

In 2007 the museum was listed by the Times newspaper as number two in their top 5 museums of the year.

The Fashion and Textile Museum is the first of its kind to showcase the talent of local and international fashion and textile designers. Located in London, one of the fashion capitals of the world, the museum represents the lifelongdream of its founder, Zandra Rhodes. Showcasing the best of vintage and modern fashion and textile design, rotating exhibitions will include work by such names as Vivienne Westwood, Jean Muir and Ossie Clark.
Situated in the heart of fashionable Bermondsey Village, in a fantastic building designed by Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, the FTM aims not just to display and collect items relating to fashion, jewellery and textile design, but to offer inspiration to a new generation of creatives. Now redeveloped and operated by Newham College, the museum is a hub of learning, ideas and networking for the fashion and jewellery industry.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is located at St Thomas' Hospital, which faces the Palace of Westminster across the River Thames in South Bank, central London, England. It is open to the public seven days a week. It re-opened on May 12 2010 following an extensive £1.4m refurbishment.

The museum tells the real story of the lady with the lamp from her Victorian childhood to her experiences in the Crimean, through to her years as an ardent campaigner for health reform. Florence Nightingale, is recognised as the founder of modern nursing in the United Kingdom. The new museum explains her legacy and also celebrates nursing today.

The Freud Museum in Hampstead was the family home of Sigmund Freud after his family fled the Nazis in Austria in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freud's study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime.

The museum partially reopens in July 2013 with a major new family exhibition Horrible Histories®: Spies, as well as an exciting new programme of art and photography exhibitions.

The museum will continue to be transformed until summer 2014 when it will launch brand new First World War Galleries to mark the 100-year anniversary of the start of the First World War, a new atrium, new shops and a park-side café.

The world's largest maritime museum, filled with inspirational stories of discovery and adventure at sea.

Explore our vast collection and enjoy free wifi in the comfort of the Compass Lounge. Steer a ship into port and fire a cannon at a dastardly pirate ship.

Exhibits in the museum's Your Ocean gallery, which is aimed at families and teenagers, examine current issues affecting marine conservation, including global warming, over-fishing and pollution.

The Time Galleries in the Observatory map the quest of astronomers, horologists who attempted to pin down the elusive concept of time.

The Cradle of the Navy: The Royal Hospital School at Greenwich is a permanent display in the Queen's House on the school's origins and life at Greenwich, where it occupied the building now used by the museum from 1806 to 1933.

Der Eintritt in das National Maritime Museum, das Queen's House und das astronomische Zentrum des Royal Observatory ist FREI. Flamsteed House und der Meridian Courtyard ...

Hundreds of exciting, interactive exhibits in one of London’s most beautiful landmark buildings.

Highlights include the popular Dinosaurs gallery, Mammals with its unforgettable model blue whale and the spectacular Central Hall, home to the Museum’s iconic Diplodocus skeleton.

Considered one of the best examples of Romanesque architecture in Britain, the Waterhouse Building has become a London landmark. Its high-spired towers soar above much of the skyline and its huge grand façade - inspired by the basalt columns at Fingal's Cave in western Scotland - is awe inspiring.

The museum's enormous collection of artifacts and specimen (70 million+) covering life on earth can be overwhelming.

The museum is divided into different color-coded zones, each focusing on a specific aspect of life on earth.

The Science Museum is the most visited science and technology museum in Europe. There are over 15,000 objects on display, including world-famous objects such as the Apollo 10 command capsule and Stephenson’s Rocket.

The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including such famous items as Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive), the first jet engine, a reconstruction of Francis Crick and James Watson's model of DNA, some of the earliest remaining steam engines, a working example of Charles Babbage's Difference engine (and the latter, preserved half brain), the first prototype of the 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now, and documentation of the first typewriter. It also contains hundreds of interactive exhibits.

A recent addition is the IMAX 3D Cinema showing science and nature documentaries, most of them in 3-D, and the Wellcome Wing which focuses on digital technology.

The Tate Modern is the English gallery for British and modern art par excellence. To celebrate the millennium in 2000, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron transformed an old building, glassed it over and designed a fabulous space inside.

From the top floor of the Tate you get some fantastic views of London.