A walk along Museum Mile provides a fascinating insight into London, past and present. From Euston Road to the River Thames, discover 13 of the city’s most extraordinary museums and galleries and their equally diverse collections.
Enter Museum Mile
St Luke’s Gospel, Lindisfarme Gospels, (detail) AD 710-721.
Aztec Serpent from Mexico, Aztec/Mixtec, 15th-16th century AD, carved wood with turquoise mosaic. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Jamini Roy, Krsna and Balarama. India,1940s. Tempera on paper. H40 x W68cm, SOAS Collection.
Dickens’s Dream by R.W Buss.
Edouard Manet A Bar at the Folis-Bergére (detail), 1881-2 © The Samuel Courthauld Trust.
Foundling Hospital token, left by a mother with her child on admission to the hospital.
Anatomical specimens from the Hunterian Collection.
The Freemasons engraving by Bernard Picart (1736).
Johnston Underground roundel, c1925.
Auditorium, Royal Opera House.
South Drawing Room, Sir John Soane’s Museum.
Vesuvius during the day, 1822, Johnston Lavis Collection in the UCL Geology Collections.
I Can’t Help the Way I Feel, John Isaacs, from the Medicine Now gallery.