A list of Museums and Art Galleries in the United Kingdom
England and London; Northern Ireland; Scotland; Wales;
A list of Museums and Art Galleries in Greater London
Greater London - Museums and Art Galleries in Greater London, including non-profit art centers and galleries, government entities, and private businesses.
| NAME | LOCATION | TELEPHONE & WEBSITE | SUMMARY |
| Art in Perpetuity Trust | 6 Creekside, London SE8 4SA | Telephone: 20-8694-8344 www.aptstudios.org |
Contemporary visual art. Art in Perpetuity Trust, also known as APT, is a London-based charity focusing on developing visual arts. It comprises 37 studios for visual artists and a gallery in Deptford. |
| artsdepot | 5 Nether St, North Finchley, London N12 0GA | Telephone: 20-8369 5454 artsdepot.co.uk |
artsdepot is an award winning cultural hub. Our venue incorporates a 395 seat theatre, 148 seat studio theatre, gallery, café, bar, studios, and architecturally stunning public spaces. |
| Bankside Gallery | 48 Hopton St, London SE1 9JH | Telephone: 20-7928-7521 banksidegallery.com |
Our vibrant exhibitions celebrate the very best in contemporary water-based media and original prints, championing the work of new and established artists. |
| Barbican Centre | Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS | Telephone: 20-7638-4141 barbican.org.uk |
The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. |
| Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art | 108A Boundary Rd, London NW8 0RH | Telephone: 20-7604-3991 benuri.org.uk |
We hold Europe’s only collection dedicated to émigré art comprising over 1300 works from 35 countries. The collection includes master works by Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, Marc Chagall, Jacob Kramer, Mark Gertler, Samuel Hirszenberg, Leon Kossoff, Chaim Soutine and Alfred Wolmark |
| Borough Road Gallery | 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA | Telephone: 20-7815-7812 www1.lsbu.ac.uk |
Borough Road Gallery is part of London South Bank University’s multi-disciplinary School of Arts and Creative Industries. Its exhibition and event programme uses A David Bomberg Legacy – The Sarah Rose Collection as a resource and inspiration. |
| Brunei Gallery | Thornhaugh St, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG | Telephone: 20-7637-2388 www.soas.ac.uk |
The Brunei Gallery is an exciting venue in central London that hosts a programme of changing contemporary and historical exhibitions from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The Gallery's aim is to present and promote cultures from these regions and to be a student resource and public facility. |
| Calvert 22 | 22 Calvert Ave, London E2 | Telephone: 20-7613-2141 calvert22.org |
The mission of the Calvert 22 Foundation is to nurture and celebrate the contemporary culture and creativity of the New East – eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia – enriching perceptions of the region and furthering international understanding. |
| Camden Arts Centre | Arkwright Rd, London NW3 6DG | Telephone: 20-7472-5500 camdenartscentre.org |
Camden Arts Centre is a place for world-class contemporary art exhibitions and education. With artists at the core of the programme, Camden Arts Centre strives to involve members of the public in the ideas and processes of today's artists, and the artists who inspire them. Read more about Camden Arts Centre here. |
| Canada House Gallery | Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London SW1Y 5BJ | Telephone: 20-7004-6000 canadainternational.gc.ca |
Canadian historical and contemporary art and artefacts |
| Cartoon Museum | 35 Little Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1A 2HH | Telephone: 20-7580-8155 cartoonmuseum.org |
The museum has three main galleries displaying original artwork from British cartoons and comics, past and present. Temporary exhibitions since 2006 have featured Private Eye, William Heath Robinson, Steve Bell, Giles, Pont, H.M. Bateman, Viz Comic, Ronald Searle, The Beano, Ralph Steadman and many other luminaries. |
| Centre for Recent Drawing | 2-4 Highbury Station Rd, London N1 1SB | Telephone: 20-3239-6936 www.c4rd.org.uk |
Centre for Recent Drawing is London’s museum space for drawing - a member of the Museum Association of the UK and a UK Registered Charity. Founded as an artist project in 2004, C4RD has since provided a public exhibition series, residencies, talks, publications and encouraged production towards independent and non-commercial aims; |
| Chisenhale Gallery | 64 Chisenhale Rd, London E3 5QZ | Telephone: 20-8981-4518 chisenhale.org.uk |
Chisenhale Gallery commissions and produces contemporary art, supporting international and UK-based artists to pursue new directions and make their most ambitious work to date. For audiences, the gallery provides opportunities to experience this process of art production through participation and critical reflection. Chisenhale Gallery has an award winning, 34-year history as one of London’s most innovative forums for contemporary art. |
| Courtauld Gallery | Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN | Telephone: 20-7848-1194 courtauld.ac.uk |
The Courtauld Gallery UK, is an art museum in Somerset House, on the Strand in central London. It houses the art collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art, a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. The Courtauld collection was formed largely through donations and bequests and includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works from medieval to modern times; it is particularly known for its French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. In total, the collection contains some 530 paintings and over 26,000 drawings and prints. The Head of the Courtauld Gallery is Ernst Vegelin |
| Cubitt Gallery | 8 Angel Mews, Islington, London N1 9HH | Telephone: 20-7278-8226 cubittartists.org.uk |
Cubitt Gallery is committed to showcasing emerging international contemporary visual arts practice. We aim to test models of curating; to take risks and challenge public and professional perceptions of what constitutes contemporary visual culture; to foreground the role and responsibilities of curatorial practice and to stimulate and encourage high-quality critical debate |
| Dorich House | Kingston University, 67 Kingston Vale, London SW15 3RN | Telephone: 20-8417-5515 dorichhousemuseum.org.uk |
Dorich House is the former studio home of the Russian sculptor Dora Gordine and her husband the Hon. Richard Hare, a scholar of Russian art and literature. Now Grade II listed, the building was completed in 1936, to Gordine’s design, and is an exceptional example of a modern studio house created by and for a female artist. |
| Dulwich Picture Gallery | Gallery Rd, Southwark SE21 7AD | Telephone: 20-8693-5254 dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk |
Dulwich Picture Gallery houses a collection of over 600 paintings, rich in European masterpieces by the likes of Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough and Canaletto. |
| Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art | 39A Canonbury Square, London N1 2AN | Telephone: 20-7704-9522 estorickcollection.com |
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opened in London in 1998. The Collection is known internationally for its core of Futurist works, as well as figurative art and sculpture dating from 1890 to the 1950s. The exhibition programme continues to address artists, movements, and questions in ways that change our understanding of Italian art and culture. |
| Gasworks Gallery | 155 Vauxhall St, London SE11 5RH | Telephone: 20-7587-5202 www.gasworks.org.uk |
Established in 1994, Gasworks is a non-profit contemporary visual art organisation working at the intersection between UK and international practices and debates. We provide studios for London-based artists; commission emerging UK-based and international artists to present their first major exhibitions in the UK; and develop a highly-respected international residencies programme, |
| Goldsmiths' Centre | 42 Britton St, Clerkenwell, London EC1M 5AD | Telephone: 20-7566-7650 goldsmiths-centre.org |
Located in the heart of Clerkenwell, the Goldsmiths’ Centre is the UK’s leading charity for the professional training of goldsmiths. Since 2012, we bring together trainee and working goldsmiths and those interested in jewellery, silversmithing and the allied trades in a unique community that works and learns together. |
| Guildhall Art Gallery | Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AE | Telephone: 20-7332-3700 - |
Established in 1886 as 'a Collection of Art Treasures worthy of the capital city,' see works dating from 1670 to the present, including 17th-century portraits, Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces and a range of paintings documenting London's dramatic history. |
| Hayward Gallery | Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 | Telephone: 20-7960-4200 southbankcentre.co.uk |
Hayward Gallery is a world-renowned contemporary art gallery and a landmark of Brutalist architecture. The exhibition programme focuses on presenting a wide range of adventurous and influential artists from across the world. Its rich history includes exhibitions by modern pioneers such as Paul Klee, Lucio Fontana, Francis Bacon, Bridget Riley, and Anthony Caro. |
| House of Illustration | 2 Granary Square, King's Cross, London N1C 4BH | Telephone: 20-3696-2020 houseofillustration.org.uk |
House of Illustration is the UK's only public gallery dedicated solely to illustration, with a creative programme of exhibitions, talks and events. Founded by Sir Quentin Blake and opened in July 2014 at the heart of the King's Cross regeneration area, it is the place to see, learn about and enjoy illustration in all its forms; from advertisements to animation, picture books to political cartoons and scientific drawings to fashion design. |
| Institute of Contemporary Arts | The Mall, St. James's, London SW1Y 5AH | Telephone: 20-7930-3647 https://www.ica.art/ |
Founded in 1946, the ICA is a membership institute that promotes and encourages an understanding of radical art and culture. Through a vibrant programme of exhibitions, films, talks and events, the ICA examines recent impulses in artistic production while stimulating debate surrounding the arts. |
| Kelmscott House Museum | 26 Upper Mall, London W6 9TA | Telephone: 20-8741-3735 williammorrissociety.org |
Welcome to The William Morris Society, founded in 1955 to make the life, work and ideas of William Morris (1834-96) better known. Our purpose is to share knowledge of the life and works of William Morris amongst our members and the wider public. |
| Kennel Club Dog Art Gallery | Clarges Street London, W1J 8AB | Telephone: 20-7518-1064 thekennelclub.org.uk |
The Kennel Club Dog Art Gallery houses the largest collection of dog paintings in Europe. Located in central London, the nearest tube station is Green Park, which is a short walk away. |
| L-13 Light Industrial Workshop | 31 Eyre St Hill, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 5EW | Telephone: 20-7713-8255 http://l-13.org/ |
The L-13 Light Industrial Workshop is not a gallery, a publisher, nor do we represent artists. Neither are we a real Ladies and Gentlemen’s Club, a Light Industrial Workshop, and we most certainly are not an art collective. |
| Landmark Arts Centre | Ferry Road, Teddington TW11 9NN | Telephone: 20-8977-7558 landmarkartscentre.org |
Arts centre with visual art gallery, located in the former St Alban's Church |
| Lethaby Gallery | 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London N1C 4AA | Telephone: - - |
Located at Granary Square, art gallery of Central Saint Martins, features contemporary and historic works from its collections of art and design |
| Leighton House Museum | 2 Holland Park Rd, Kensington, London W14 8LZ | Telephone: 20-7602-3316 www.rbkc.gov.uk |
Victorian house of painter Frederic, Lord Leighton, features paintings, sculpture, Middle Eastern tiles |
| Mall Galleries | The Mall, St. James's, London SW1 | Telephone: 20-7930-6844 mallgalleries.org.uk |
Central London's leading gallery celebrating contemporary visual arts through a lively and diverse programme of exhibitions and events |
| MOCA, London | 113 Bellenden Rd, London SE15 4QY | Telephone: 20-7771-9778 www.mocalondon.co.uk |
The Museum of Contemporary Art, London was founded in 1994 as a project based museum. No formal built space was to be required to mount a series of international exhibitions that incorporated sculpture, video, painting, photography and installation. Projects were curated for virtual and specific sites |
| Morley Gallery | 61 Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1 7HT | Telephone: 20-7450-1826 morleycollege.ac.uk |
Morley Gallery is a public venue that is dedicated to reflecting the breadth of art and design practice. Our multi-disciplinary programme of exhibitions and events supports the creative development of artists working across all art forms and at all stages of their careers: students, emerging and established. The gallery showcases new ideas and different perspectives in ways that are inclusive, innovative and enjoyable. The gallery is free entry and everyone is welcome. |
| Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | 9 Boulevard Dr, London NW9 | Telephone: 20-8411-5244 www.moda.mdx.ac.uk |
The collections include wallpapers, textiles, designs, books, catalogues and magazines from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. |
| National Gallery | Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN | Telephone: 20-7747-2885 nationalgallery.org.uk |
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The Gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the main collection is free of charge. It is among the most visited art museums in the world, after the Musée du Louvre, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| National Portrait Gallery London NPG.JPG | St. Martin's Pl, London WC2H 0HE | Telephone: 20-7306-0055 www.npg.org.uk |
The most extensive collection of portraits in the world offering a unique insight into the men and women who have and are shaping British history and culture from the Tudors to the present day. We celebrate and encourage portraiture in all forms with a diverse programme at our Gallery in London and across the UK. |
| Old Speech Room Gallery and Museum, Harrow School | 5 High Street Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, HA1 3HP | Telephone: 20-8872-8000 harrowschool.org.uk |
The Old Speech Room was built around 1820 as a space where boys could learn the art of public speaking. In 1976, it was converted into a gallery for the School's distinguished collection of antiquities and fine art. |
| Orleans House Gallery | Riverside, Twickenham TW1 3DJ | Telephone: 20-8831-6000 richmond.gov.uk |
Municipal art gallery, also the Stables Gallery |
| Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art | 14 Wharf Rd, London N1 7RW | Telephone: 20-7490-7373 www.parasol-unit.org |
Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator Dr. Ziba Ardalan, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is a not-for-profit art institution that operates purely for the public benefit. |
| Peckham Platform | 89 Peckham High St, London SE15 5RS | Telephone: 20-7358-9645 www.peckhamplatform.com |
Contemporary art. Peckham Platform is a creative and educational charity based in a gallery on Peckham Square, SE15. |
| The Photographers' Gallery | 16-18 Ramillies St, Soho, London W1F 7LW | Telephone: 20-7087-9300 thephotographersgallery.org.uk |
The Photographers' Gallery is the largest public gallery in London dedicated to photography. From the latest emerging talent, to historical archives and established artists, we're the place to see photography in all its forms. |
| Pushkin House | 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA | Telephone: 20-7269-9770 pushkinhouse.org |
Pushkin House is the UK's oldest independent Russian cultural centre. Founded in 1954 in a house in Notting Hill by a group of émigré Russian friends, led by Maria Mikhailovna Kullmann (Zernova), their aim was to create a welcoming meeting-place: ‘for the enjoyment, understanding and promotion of Russian culture in all its forms, and for the exchange of views in a lively, informal atmosphere, with freedom of speech a core principle’. |
| Queen's Gallery | Buckingham Palace Rd, Westminster, London SW1A 1AA | Telephone: 303-123-7301 royalcollection.org.uk |
Exhibitions of items from the Royal Collection, located at Buckingham Palace |
| Queen's House | Romney Rd, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF | Telephone: 20-8858-4422 http://www.rmg.co.uk/ |
Come and celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Queen’s House. Inigo Jones’s architectural masterpiece has reopened after major restoration, with 22 spectacular rooms filled with works of art representing 400 years. An ambitious new work in gold leaf by Turner Prize-winner Richard Wright is revealed on the Great Hall ceiling. |
| Ranger's House. Wernher Collection | Chesterfield Walk, Lewisham, London SE10 8QX | Telephone: 20-8853-0035 english-heritage.org.uk |
Ranger’s House is an elegant Georgian villa in Greenwich Park which houses The Wernher Collection, a remarkable collection of works of art amassed by diamond magnate Sir Julius Wernher (1850-1912). Arranged within the panelled interiors of this graceful mansion is a glittering spectacle – a sumptuous arrangement of silver and jewels, paintings and porcelain. Nearly 700 works of art are on display, including early religious paintings and Dutch Old Masters, tiny carved Gothic ivories, fine Renaissance bronzes and silver treasures revealing the genius of medieval craftsmen and the unparalleled quality of Renaissance decorative arts. |
| Red Mansion Foundation | 46 Portland Pl, Marylebone, London W1B 1NF | Telephone: 20-7323-3700 redmansion.co.uk |
Gallery exhibits of contemporary Chinese art |
| Riverside Gallery | 36 Barnes High Street London SW13 9LP | Telephone: riversidegallery.co.uk |
Municipal art gallery. On the river at Barnes, Riverside Gallery exhibits original contemporary art including paintings, sculpture, prints and ceramics. |
| Rivington Place | 69 Rivington St, London EC2A 3AY | Telephone: 20-7739-7855 autograph-abp.co.uk |
Rivington Place opened in October 2007 in the heart of Shoreditch, East London and is home to Autograph ABP’s dynamic artistic programmes. Rivington Place is the UK's first permanent public space dedicated to diversity in the visual arts and the first new public gallery to be built in London since the Hayward Gallery opened 40 years earlier. |
| Royal Academy of Arts | Burlington House, Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 0BD | Telephone: 20-7300-8090 royalacademy.org.uk |
All Royal Academicians give a work to our Collection when elected, creating a treasure trove of British art. Over the decades we have amassed everything from masterpieces by Constable, historic objects like Queen Victoria’s paintbox and modern-day creations by some of our finest artists. |
| Saatchi Gallery | Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY | Telephone: 20-7811-3070 www.saatchigallery.com |
The Saatchi Gallery aims to provide an innovative forum for contemporary art, presenting work by largely unseen young artists or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. The audience for exhibitions of contemporary art has increased widely during the recent years as general awareness and interest in contemporary art has developed both in Britain and abroad. |
| Serpentine Galleries | Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA | Telephone: 20-7402-6075 serpentinegalleries.org |
Championing new ideas in contemporary art since it opened in 1970, the Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions of 2,263 artists over 45 years, showing a wide range of work from emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists and architects of our time. |
| The Showroom | 63 Penfold St, Marylebone, London NW8 8PQ | Telephone: 20-7724-4300 theshowroom.org |
The Showroom is a contemporary art space focused on collaborative approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond. |
| Sir John Soane's Museum | 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP | Telephone: 20-7405-2107 www.soane.org |
The Soane Museum is the extraordinary house of Sir John Soane, one of the greatest English architects, who built and lived in it more than a century and a half ago. The Museum has been kept as it was at the time of his death nearly 180 years ago. It displays his collection of antiquities, furniture, sculptures, architectural models, paintings – including work by Hogarth, Turner and Canaletto – and over 30,000 architectural drawings. It’s a vast, extraordinary collection, full of curiosities and surprises. |
| Somerset House | Strand, London WC2R 1LA | Telephone: 20-7845-4600 somersethouse.org.uk |
Somerset House is a new kind of arts centre in the heart of London, designed for today’s audiences and creatives. |
| South London Gallery | 65-67 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UH | Telephone: 20-7703-6120 southlondongallery.org |
The South London Gallery is an internationally acclaimed contemporary art space which has been free to the public since its foundation in 1891. The gallery opened on its present site on Peckham Road in 1891 as the South London Fine Art Gallery and Library. |
| Studio Voltaire | 1A Nelsons Row, Clapham, London SW4 7JR | Telephone: 20-7622-1294 studiovoltaire.org |
For over twenty years, Studio Voltaire has championed emerging and underrepresented artists, allowing us to offer an alternative and agenda-setting view of contemporary art. Many of our exhibitions are an artists’ first solo presentation in London. |
| Tate Britain | Millbank, Westminster, London SW1P 4RG | Telephone: 20-7887-8888 www.tate.org.uk |
Tate Britain (known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery) is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, having opened in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country. The main display spaces show the permanent collection of historic British art, as well as contemporary work. It has rooms dedicated to works by one artist, such as: Tracey Emin, John Latham, Douglas Gordon, Sam Taylor-Wood, Marcus Gheeraerts II, though these, like the rest of the collection, are subject to rotation. |
| Tate Modern | Bankside London SE1 9TG | Telephone: 20-7887-8888 www.tate.org.uk |
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group (together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Online). It is based in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark. Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1900 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art. Tate Modern is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world. As with the UK's other national galleries and museums, there is no admission charge for access to the collection displays, which take up the majority of the gallery space, while tickets must be purchased for the major temporary exhibitions. The collections in Tate Modern consist of works of international modern and contemporary art dating from 1900 until today. |
| Two Temple Place | 2 Temple Pl, London WC2R 3BD | Telephone: 20-7836-3715 twotempleplace.org |
Two Temple Place is dedicated to promoting culture and philanthropy. The house hosts annual exhibitions, showcasing publicly owned museums and gallery collections from around the UK, as well as numerous other cultural and philanthropic events. |
| UCL Art Museum | Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT | Telephone: 20-7679-2000 www.ucl.ac.uk |
Part of the University College London, exhibits in the Strang Print Room, South Cloisters |
| Wallace Collection | Hertford House, Manchester Square, Marylebone, London W1U 3BN | Telephone: 20-7563-9500 wallacecollection.org |
The Wallace Collection is a national museum in an historic London town house. In 25 galleries are unsurpassed displays of French 18th-century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master paintings and a world class armoury. |
| Whitechapel Gallery | 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX | Telephone: 20-7522-7888 whitechapelgallery.org |
The Whitechapel Gallery – the artists’ gallery for everyone. Our history has always been the future. For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has premiered world-class artists from modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Frida Kahlo to contemporaries such as Sophie Calle, Paul Noble, Thomas Struth, Sarah Lucas and Mark Wallinger. |
| William Morris Gallery | Lloyd Park House, 531 Forest Rd, Walthamstow, London E17 4PP | Telephone: 20-8496-4390 wmgallery.org.uk |
Explore the internationally-renowned collections of the William Morris Gallery and learn more about the life and work of this remarkable individual and his artistic collaborators. |