London Museums and Galleries

Most popular London Museums sponsored by the Department of Culture, Media & Sport, with visitor figures, year to March 2008:

Tate Modern and Tate Britain –  6,769,949
British Museum – 6,037,930
National Gallery – 3,914,000
Natural History Museum – 3,613,953
Science Museum – 2,711,680
Victoria and Albert Museum – 2,280,759
National Maritime Museum – 1,765,814
National Portrait Gallery – 1,645,680
Imperial War Museum – 759,571
Horniman Museum –    477,894
Wallace Collection –     335,349
V&A Museum of Childhood – 332,844
Museum of London –   316,992
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms – 306,600
HMS Belfast – 258,941
Museum in Docklands – 100,834
Sir John Soane's Museum – 93,427
Geffrye Museum – 80,352
Theatre Museum – 6,852 (closed permanently in August 2007 due to lack of funds)

Other Museums and Galleries in London:
Royal Academy

Museums and Galleries near London:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Dulwich Gallery