V&A Museum

The Victoria & Albert Museum is a museum of art and science founded in 1851, after the World Fair. It was renamed in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. This impressive museum specialises in decorative arts and design, with a collection boasting 4 million pieces including ceramics, costumes, jewellery, medieval artefacts and sculptures. It is now one of the biggest art museums in the world, putting on major exhibitions dedicated to fashion, design and photography. Another must is the Natural History Museum, with five different departments: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. Some of its specimens were collected by Charles Darwin himself.