Museums and galleries are fascinating places to visit, so I regularly visit them. They’re always putting on special exhibitions as well as having all of their permanent ones to explore, so there’s always something new to see whenever you go.
So this is a long list of museums, galleries, palaces, castles and other exhibition spaces in London, with links to accessibility information where they provide it. There are also details of occasions when I’ve visited these museums, with links to blog posts and photos where available.
Links are divided into headings for Museums & Galleries, National Trust, Palaces & Castles, and Churches & Cathedrals.
If you have any links you think I should add here, you can contact me on Twitter, Facebook or email.
Museums & Galleries
- Apsley House
- Guided Tour, with Thinking Bob, February 2018
- Bank of England Museum
- Accessibility Information
- Touch Tour & Audio Description, with London Vision East (see their post), November 2017
- Benjamin Franklin House
- Bethlem Museum of the Mind
- Biggin Hill Memorial Museum
- Bishopsgate Institute
- British Library
- Accessibility Information
- Harry Potter – A History Of Magic, with Emily from Fashioneyesta, January 2018
- British Museum
- Access Information
- The American Dream, recorded audio tour, April 2017
- Hokusai: Beyond The Great Wave, audio described tour by VocalEyes, July 2017
- Scythians: Warriors Of Ancient Siberia, audio described tour by VocalEyes,, October 2017
- Large Print Guides Focus Group, January 2017
- British Museum Of Food
- Camberwell College Of Arts
- MA Visual Arts Summer Show (on Instagram here, here, here & here), with student Nihan Karim, July 2018
- Charles Dickens Museum
- Chocolate Museum
- Chocolate Making Workshop, with London Vision South East (see their post), October 2017
- Churchill War Rooms
- Clink Prison Museum
- Dennis Severs’ House
- Design Museum
- Access Information
- Home Futures, Multisensory Tour, January 2019
- Dr Johnson’s House
- Fan Museum
- Fashion & Textile Museum
- Foundling Museum
- Freemasons’ Hall
- Audio Described Tour for Open House Weekend by VocalEyes, September 2017
- Freud Museum
- God’s Own Junkyard
- Grant Museum Of Zoology
- Greenwich Museums including Cutty Sark
- Hall Place & Gardens
- Handel & Hendrix In London
- Heath Robinson Museum
- Historic Royal Palaces
- HMS Belfast
- House Of Illustration
- Household Cavalry Museum
- Imperial War Museum
- Accessibility Information
- Touch Tour & Handling Session, with London Vision South East, February 2018
- Institution of Civil Engineers
- Japan House
- Keats House
- Leighton House Museum
- Library & Museum of Freemasonry
- Lloyds Register
- Audio Described Tour for Open House Weekend by VocalEyes, September 2017
- London Bridge Experience
- London Canal Museum
- London Dungeon
- London Film Museum
- London Museum of Water & Steam
- London Transport Museum
- London Zoo
- Guided Tour, with London Vision East (see their post), June 2017
- Christmas At London Zoo, December 2018
- Madame Tussaud’s
- Access Information
- Guided Tour, with London Vision East (see their post & photos), November 2018
- Migration Museum
- Museum of Brands
- Time Tunnel, Time Out 50 and Chocolate Boxes & Biscuit Tins, January 2019, with Claire
- Museum of London
- Accessibility Information
- Fatberg, Votes For Women & main exhibitions, accessibility study with Rafie Cecilia, February 2018
- Museum of London Docklands
- Access Tours
- Sailortown Exhibition, with Mum, audio described tour by VocalEyes, July 2017
- Museum of Methodism & John Wesley’s House
- National Gallery
- Access Information
- Monet & Architecture, recorded audio tour, with London Vision South East, July 2018
- Renaissance Lates Event, with Thinking Bob, May 2017
- National Portrait Gallery
- Natural History Museum
- Access Information
- Birds, July 2017
- Fossil Marine Reptiles, July 2017
- Human Evolution Tour, recorded audio tour, July 2017
- Investigate Gallery, touch tour with East London Vision, April 2017
- Mammals, July 2018
- Restless Surface, June 2018
- Volcanoes & Earthquakes. recorded audio tour, June 2018
- Whales: Beneath The Surface, with large print guide, July 2017
- Old Operating Theatre Museum
- Old Royal Naval College
- Postal Museum
- Pumphouse Museum
- RAF Museum
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Access Information
- Matisse Exhibition, audio described tour, with Mum, September 2017
- Saatchi Gallery
- Salters Hall
- Audio Described Tour for Open House Weekend by VocalEyes, September 2017
- Science Gallery
- Science Museum
- Accessibility Information
- Energy Hall, May 2017
- Exploring Space, May 2017
- Information Age, audio description from Audio Eyes app, January 2018
- Making The Modern World, with Claire, August 2018
- Mathematics, with large print guide, June 2018
- Secret Life Of The Home, with Claire, August 2018
- Sea Life London Aquarium
- Information For Disabled Visitors
- Family Visit, August 2000
- Sewing Machine Museum
- Only open on the first Saturday of every month, from 2pm-5pm
- Sherlock Holmes Museum
- Sir John Soane’s Museum
- Stephens House & Gardens (Ink Museum)
- Strawberry Hill House & Garden
- Tate Modern
- Access Tours
- Anni Albers Exhibition & Conductive Coding Workshop, with Claire, January 2019
- Mobile App Audio Tours – Building & Highlights, January 2018
- Tower Bridge
- Twinings Tea Shop & Museum
- UCL Art Museum
- Victoria & Albert Museum
- Disability & Access Information
- Europe 1600-1815, with large print and online audio guides:
- Room 7, December 2017 (accessibility study with Rafie Cecilia)
- Rooms 5 & 6, January 2018
- Rooms 3 & 4, February 2019
- Ocean Liners – Speed & Style, with Claire, June 2018
- Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, with Claire, with large print guide, September 2018
- Saints & Sinners Tour, with Thinking Bob, April 2017
- Ultrahaptics Testing, accessibility study with Lydia Porter, Jessica Andrich, Nicola Flüchter & Rafie Cecilia, April 2018
- Victoria & Albert Museum Of Childhood
- Access Information
- A Pirate’s Life For Me & permanent exhibitions, February 2019, with Claire
- Wallace Collection
- Access Information
- Great Gallery, accessibility study with Rafie Cecilia, testing audio guide and using Smartify, April 2018
- Warner Bros Harry Potter Studio Tour
- Additional Needs Information
- Tour Review, Video Footage & Merchandise Haul, with Thinking Bob, January 2018
- Wellcome Collection
- Accessibility Information
- Access Tours
- Graphic Design, audio described tour by VocalEyes, December 2017
- Medicine Man, audio described tour by VocalEyes, December 2017
- Medicine Now, audio described tour by VocalEyes, December 2017
- Teeth, with large print guide, June 201
- The Who Shop (Doctor Who)
- Whitechapel Gallery
- Whitewebbs Museum Of Transport
National Trust
- Carlyle’s House
- Fenton House & Garden:
- A Time Traveller’s Christmas, December 2018, with Claire
- Ham House & Garden
- Knole House & Park
- Tudor Costume Demonstration, August 2017, with Emily from Fashioneyesta
- Osterley Park & House
- Rainham Hall
- Red House
- Sutton House & Breaker’s Yard
- 2 Willow Road
- 575 Wandsworth Road
Palaces & Castles
- Banqueting House
- Buckingham Palace State Rooms, Royal Mews & Queen’s Gallery
- Sensory Garden Tour, guided descriptive tour, with Mum, September 2018
- State Rooms Tour, electronic audio descriptive guide, with Mum, September 2018
- Clarence House
- Frogmore House
- Fulham Palace
- They have gardens and a museum that can be explored, they do guided tours and walks, and they have a café.
- Hampton Court Palace
- Hillsborough Castle
- Kensington Palace
- Kew Palace
- Tower Of London
- Windsor Castle
