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Best of London Private Tours · P1

Discover the Best Museums in London

The vast quantity of art within London's National Gallery makes exploring it independently an intimidating feat. This private tour ensures you see the collection's highlights, so you can admire the masterpieces and artistic techniques you might otherwise miss.

  • 10-hour full-day private tour
  • Luxury 8-seater private minivan
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off

About This Tour

Tour highlights.

  • Take in the famous rooftops of London from the lush urban jungle of the Sky Garden
  • See the best of London's Natural History Museum on a private tour
  • Visit one of the greatest collections of Western European paintings in the world
  • View highlights of the British Museum, a showcase of 6,000 years of history
  • See treasures such as the Mummy of Katebet, the Lewis Chessmen and the Rosetta Stone
  • The domed portico of the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square
  • The Romanesque towers and arched entrance of the Natural History Museum
  • Plants and seating beneath the sweeping glass roof of the Sky Garden

Full Description

The itinerary.

9 stops on this private, chauffeur-driven tour.

  1. Stop 1: Natural History Museum

    Over 70,000 species and objects, from dinosaurs to human biology and volcanoes to geology. It began as part of the British Museum, until the collection grew too large.

  2. Stop 2: Victoria and Albert Museum

    The world's largest museum of applied and decorative arts and design, founded in 1852, with over 2.27 million objects spanning 5,000 years of human creativity.

  3. Stop 3: Mercato Mayfair Food Hall

    A community food market inside St Mark's Church, a Grade I listed 19th-century building on North Audley Street, with three levels of artisan food and drink stalls, a microbrewery, a wine bar and a roof terrace.

  4. Stop 4: National Gallery

    Founded in 1824 on Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery houses more than 2,300 paintings from the mid-13th century to 1900: one of the greatest collections in the world, and free to enter.

  5. Stop 5: British Museum

    The world's first national public museum, with over 8 million works from every continent telling the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

  6. Stop 6: The Temple Church

    The historic home of the Knights Templar and resting place of crusading knights, famously featured in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and its film adaptation with Tom Hanks.

  7. Stop 7: St Bartholomew the Great

    A medieval church in Smithfield, in the City of London, founded as an Augustinian priory in 1123.

  8. Stop 8: Tate Modern

    The UK's national collection of international modern and contemporary art from 1900 to today, and one of the ten most visited galleries in the world.

  9. Stop 9: Sky Garden

    Pre-booking

    A foliage-filled viewing gallery on the 43rd floor of the Walkie Talkie, with floor-to-ceiling windows over London's rooftops and an open-air terrace looking across the Thames.

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