Do you visit museums and art galleries? Do you have a favourite?

[Bimble]

I know a lot of town councils have made their museums and galleries free to enter in order to increase visitor numbers. I'm not sure if it has helped at all and wondered if any of you guys actually visit galleries and museums (locally or when you're travelling) and if so which ones you like the best and why?

 

[Markymark]

Mini natural history in Tring is great. Love the transport museum and duxford too.

 

[cuberider]

The last museum I went to was the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry which was well worth a visit. I also enjoyed the Imperial War Museum North a few years ago.

 

[Spinney]

The last one I went to was HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool - love old ships! Waterways museum in Gloucester is good (closed for refurbishment at the moment).

 

[ianrauk]

The Horniman Museum in South London is always worth a visit. Filled to the brim with the weird and the wonderful.

 

[pplpilot]

Science museum down that London... fabulous.

 

[London Female]

The Horniman Museum in South London is always worth a visit. Filled to the brim with the weird and the wonderful.

I grew up just walking distance from Hornimans Museum and used to go all the time, I last went about 5 years ago.

 

[London Female]

I took my daughter to the Ashmolean Museum on Sunday. We also regularly visit the history museum and Pitt Rivers every summer because they are close by and free. My daughter enjoys museums and galleries but my son has to be dragged around.

 

[Oldfentiger]

Duxford
Shuttleworth Collection
Eden Camp

 

[palinurus]

I like the Photographer's Gallery (W1F 7LW), I drop in there quite frequently. Plenty of other galleries in London which are good for just dropping into like the Whitechapel (haven't been over there for a while).

I've never been to the Horniman- this thread has reminded me I need to go.

Years ago I visited the Musical Instrument museum in Brentford- they have all manner of mechanical musical instruments like a grand player piano with a punched card recording made by Rachmaninoff. You don't just wander around looking at stuff- there are guided tours and you get to hear the instruments.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Tring is fantastic..i love all these places in London and any city..Paris Holland Belgium..

there often cheap or free too..

 

[biggs682]

yes i like museums cant say which one is best they are normally all good

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

National Railway Museum (York)

I wouldn't mind The Science Museum, but, it'd mean visiting London, & I've done that twice in my 50 years
That was one more than once enough!

I did enjoy the Smithsonians, when we were in Washington DC, on honeymoon in 1998

 

[slowmotion]

The Horniman Museum in South London is always worth a visit. Filled to the brim with the weird and the wonderful.

It's fantastic. We spent a week working in there and got to know it well. A completely wacky collection.

 

[Profpointy]

I took my daughter to the Ashmolean Museum on Sunday. We also regularly visit the history museum and Pitt Rivers every summer because they are close by and free. My daughter enjoys museums and galleries but my son has to be dragged around.

both excellent choices. Pitt Rivers especially as it's such a hodge podge of junk and antiquities

Oxford's science museum is also rather good