Museums & Visits
- The Hunterian Museum (Lincoln’s Inn Fields)
- Dennis Severs’ House (Spitalfields): A house that’s been transformed into what a typical Huguenot home in the 1700s. A nice break from the “real” world - no photography is allowed so it’s very immersive compared to bigger, busier museums.
- The Cartoon Museum: Has a collection of over 6,00 original cartoon and comic artworks, as well as a library of 8,000 comic books, nearly all British-based.
- The Cinema Museum: Originally a workhouse – Charlie Chaplin was actually housed here once upon a time – the museum holds some incredible artefacts, memorabilia and cinema equipment from the 1890s.
- Japan House: Not “unusual” in a typical sense but this is a tiny slice of Japan that has the coolest exhibitions: food, art, culture, even SUMO shows.
- Horniman Museum: The Horniman Museum and Gardens is located in Forest Hill, South East London. It first opened as the Surrey House Museum in 1890 in the Horniman family residence. In 1901 it changed its name to the Horniman Museum when it re-opened in a new purpose-built museum building.
- Wallace Collection: We are a national museum housing unsurpassed masterpieces of painting, sculpture, furniture, arms and armour, and porcelain.
- The Photographers’ Gallery
- The Inner Temple Garden
- Kew Gardens
- Royal Opera House café and terrace (by the ROH’s Piazza) which has a great view over Covent Garden
- Note: the terrace is on the top floor, on the other side of the ROH with respect to the café
Left out the obvious ones: V&A, Natural History, British, Tate Modern and Britain, National Portrait Gallery etc.
Comedy
- Comedy Store
- Top Secret Comedy Club
- Covent Garden Comedy Club
- Up the Creek
- The Stand-Up Club at The Coach House Piccadilly