Museums & Attractions

With a hugely prolific career spanning four decades, Lord Norman Foster is one of the UK's most influential architects and an obvious choice for one of our 40th birthday heroes

Art historian extraordinaire who's directed the British Museum since 2002, Neil MacGregor is one of our 40th birthday heroes

The season's must-see exhibitions, including the new Body Worlds, the British Museum’s ‘Babylon’ show and the ‘Magnificence of the Tsars’ exhibition at the V&A

The riotous mayhem of the Notting Hill Carnival and the celebrations for the Olympic handover won’t be every Londoner’s cup of tea, we know, so here's a few ideas for escaping the bustle of the city without going too far

The South Ken museums are a surefire hit with kids, but how do their summer shows compare? Time Out puts the Natural History’s ‘Amazing Butterflies’ and the Science Museum’s ‘Science of Survival’ to the traipse test

Forget the V&A, it's time to celebrate the lesser-known gems tucked away in every corner of the capital

From the syphilitic to the cancer-riddled – every bone has a story, as Time Out finds on a visit to the Museum of London’s vast collection of 17,000 human skeletons

A guide to the best museums and galleries exhibiting historical African art and artefacts