I’ve only been in London for a month, but
I’ve already seen so much cool stuff! I thought I’d share some of the coolness
let you guys know my favorite museums so far to visit in London.
The National Gallery is amazing! The
architecture is so incredible and you can see paintings that are over 500 years
old. Helpful tip: There’s actually two museums next to each other, The National
Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. I got that confused at first! Also,
I got to see Van Gough paintings for the first time! It was a really
awe-inspiring moment.
The Tate Modern is also
really amazing, and has tons of new exhibits to check out all the time. If
you’re into modern art, or if you just want to try something new, I’d
definitely suggest visiting this museum. Also, the surrounding area is
beautiful: the church of St.Paul is close by and you get to walk over this
gorgeous bridge to get there!
I love science museums, so the Natural
History Museum was a must-see for me. And it did not disappoint! The building
itself looks like a castle straight out of a fairytale, and it is absolutely
enormous: I’ll definitely need to go back to this one several times. You could
probably visit this museum every week for a whole semester and not get through
everything it has to offer! I particularly loved the collection of whales, the
human biology exhibit, and the volcanoes and earthquakes. I just walked around
this museum for hours admiring all of the displays. Here are some sights you
can expect to see!
My favorite museum so far is probably the
Science Museum. This museum is my favorite because it has the best space
exhibit! Astronomy is my favorite subject so this exhibit was just so
incredible for me to be able to see. I loved how it focused on human missions
to space compared to the processes of celestial objects like the life cycles of
stars and anatomy of galaxies like other museums such as the American Museum of
Natural History. They had a really cool “floating” orb in the middle of the
exhibit with a projector inside of it so it looked like it was magically
shifting between all the planets in the solar system. There’s even a real moon
rock to check out! You can also learn about the other planetary objects in the
solar system that are really trending in astronomy right now like Saturn’s moon
Titan. There’s tons of other really cool stuff to check out in this museum as
well like different types of automobiles and clocks and the mechanics behind
them. London is such an amazing city for museum visits, and I hope you all take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to see some truly remarkable collections, and learn new things! Have fun exploring!
