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Free things to do in London

21 museums and landmarks in London are recorded as free entry by OpenStreetMap contributors, and 28 parks, viewpoints and beaches cost nothing by their nature. 31 of them give opening hours.

Contributors marked these as charging no admission. Museums and landmarks only: a zero here is a fact about the place, not an assumption about its kind.

Free by their nature rather than by a tag, so nobody checked these one by one — but a park being free needs no evidence.

Opening hours come from OpenStreetMap and can be out of date. A place is only marked open on Sunday when its record says so plainly.

Free museums — 21 places

  • Natural History Museum
    Cromwell Road
    10:00-17:30
    Open on Sunday
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
    Cromwell Road
    Sa-Th 10:00-17:45; Fr 10:00-22:00; Dec 24-26 off
    Open on Sunday
  • British Museum
    Great Russell Street
    Sa-Th 10:00-17:00; Fr 10:00-20:30
    Open on Sunday
  • National Gallery
    Sa-Th 10:00-18:00; Fr 10:00-21:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Tate Modern
    Bankside
    Su-Th 10:00-18:00; Fr-Sa 10:00-21:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Science Museum
    Mo-Su 10:00-18:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Imperial War Museum London
    Lambeth Road
    10:00-18:00; Dec 24-26 off
    Open on Sunday
  • Sir John Soane's Museum
    Lincoln's Inn Fields 13
    Tu-Sa 10:00-16:30
  • Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology
    Malet Place
    Tu-Sa 13:00-17:00
  • Saatchi Gallery
    King's Road
    Mo-Su 11:00-18:00
    Open on Sunday
  • The Wallace Collection
    Manchester Square
    10:00-17:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Design Museum
    Kensington High Street 224-238
    Mo-Th 10:00-17:00; Fr-Su 10:00-18:00; Sep 16-Dec 31 Sa 10:00-20:45; Dec 24-27 off
    Open on Sunday
  • Royal Institute of British Architects
    Portland Place 66-68
    Mo 08:00-17:30; Tu 08:00-20:00; We-Fr 08:00-17:45; Sa 10:00-17:00
  • Young V&A
    Cambridge Heath Road
    Mo-Su 10:00-17:45; Dec 24-26 off
    Open on Sunday
  • Museum of the Home
    Kingsland Road 136
    Mo off; Tu-Su,PH 10:00-17:00
    Open on Sunday
  • The Charterhouse
    Tu-Su 11:00-16:45
    Open on Sunday
  • Wellcome Collection
    Euston Road 183
    Tu-We,Fr-Su 10:00-18:00; Th 10:00-20:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Guildhall Art Gallery
    Guildhall Yard
    Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Queer Britain
    Granary Square 2
    Mo-Tu off; We-Su 12:00-18:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Grant Museum of Zoology
    University Street 21
    Tu-Fr 13:00-17:00; Sa 11:00-17:00; Su,Mo,PH off
  • Hunterian Museum
    Lincoln's Inn Fields 35-43
    Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00

Parks and gardens — 20 places

  • The Regent's Park
    05:00-dusk
  • Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
    Tyers Street
    24/7
  • Holland Park
    Mo-Su 07:30-(dusk-00:30)
  • Victoria Park
    Mo-Su 07:00-dusk
  • Lincoln's Inn
  • Primrose Hill
  • Russell Square
  • Middle Temple Garden
  • Grosvenor Square
    24/7 closed
  • Berkeley Square
  • Tavistock Square
    07:30-sunset
  • Soho Square Gardens
  • Victoria Tower Gardens
  • Bloomsbury Square Gardens
  • Finsbury Circus Gardens
    Finsbury Circus
  • Redcliffe Square Gardens
    07:30-dusk
  • Belgrave Square
  • Bedford Square
  • Victoria Embankment Gardens
    Victoria Embankment
    Jan 01-Feb 15 08:30-16:30,Feb 16-Feb 29 08:30-17:30,Mar 01-Mar Su[4] 08:30-18:00,Mar Mo[4]-Mar 31 08:30-19:30,Apr 01-Apr 15 08:30-20:00,Apr 16-Apr 30 08:30-20:30,May 01-May 15 08:30-21:00,Mar 16-Jul 31 08:30-21:30,Aug 01-Aug 15 08:30-21:00,Aug 16-Aug 31 0
  • Burgess Park

Viewpoints — 8 places

  • Tower of Church of St Augustine
    Su[-1] 14:00-16:30
  • Sky Garden
    Fenchurch Street 20
    Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa-Su,PH 11:00-21:00
  • The Lookout
  • Horizon 22
  • Switch House
    Bankside
  • The Mound
  • Soham’s Spot
  • Terrace (One Leadenhall)
    Leadenhall Street 1

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