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Museum Mile London is the home of 14 museums in
London
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, in the area between
Bloomsbury
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to the north and the
Embankment
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on the
River Thames
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to the south.
The area is located in the
London Borough of Camden
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. The route includes
Woburn Place
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Kingsway
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Russell Square
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,
Southampton Row
The A4200 is a major thoroughfare in central London. It runs between the A4 at Aldwych, to the A400 Hampstead Road/ Camden High Street, at Mornington Crescent tube station.
Kingsway
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Kingsway, and the
Aldwych
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.
The museums and related cultural institutions with collections that are included are:
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The British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documen ...
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The Brunei Gallery, SOAS
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Charles Dickens Museum
The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in King's Cross, in the London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens's home from 25 March 1837 (a year after h ...
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The Courtauld Gallery
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The Foundling Museum
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Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) is an independent professional body and registered charity that promotes and advances standards of surgical care for patients, and regulates surgery and dentistry in England and Wales. The ...
*
Museum of Freemasonry
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London Transport Museum
The London Transport Museum (often abbreviated as the LTM) is a transport museum based in Covent Garden, London. The museum predominantly hosts exhibits relating to the heritage of London's transport, as well as conserving and explaining the h ...
*
Sir John Soane's Museum
Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum, located next to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, London, which was formerly the home of neo-classical architect, John Soane. It holds many drawings and architectural models of Soane's projects, and ...
*
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
museums and collections including:
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Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material ...
**
Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is a natural history museum that is part of University College London in London, England. It was established by Robert Edmond Grant in 1828 as a teaching collection of zoological specimens and ...
**UCL Art Museum
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Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection is a museum and library based at 183 Euston Road, London, displaying a mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring "ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art". Founded in 2007, the Wellcome C ...
Museum Mile London's role is to establish new connections between people and its collections, so they can benefit everyone. It wants to spark people's curiosity, enticing them to explore new works, stories and spaces, amongst collections that capture every interest. It also provides a space for museum staff to connect and share ideas.
See also
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Albertopolis
Albertopolis is the nickname given to the area centred on Exhibition Road in London, named after Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. It contains many educational and cultural sites. It is in South Kensington, split between the Royal Bor ...
, in
South Kensington
South Kensington, nicknamed Little Paris, is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton. Its name was supplanted with ...
, London
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List of museums in London
file:A flow chart of London museums by Matt Brown.jpg, A flow chart of London's museums
This is a list of museums in London, the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. It also includes university and non-profit art galleries. As of 201 ...
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Knowledge Quarter, London
References
External links
Museum Mile website
2007 establishments in England
Museum districts in the United Kingdom
Art gallery districts
Culture in London
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Tourist attractions in London
London, Museum Mile
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Geography of the London Borough of Camden
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