Museums & Attractions

A handy round-up of the big-hitting exhibitions currently on in London museums

Most of London's big museums are great for kids, so they're always packed with kids, especially during school holidays. But lots of museums have brilliant workshops and activities as well as their permanent collections and exhibitions. Here are some of the capital's best museums for children

A timely exhibition, 'Waste Not, Want Not' at the Museum of Brands, offers wartime hints on beating the credit crunch, or as they put it, 'tips to beat the recession and the destruction of the environment'

He’s one of the world’s most accomplished broadcasters, and wildlife TV’s most familiar face (certainly to gorillas) – yet David Attenborough is thoroughly self-effacing. It’s just one of the traits he shares with that other great naturalist and humanist, Charles Darwin. Time Out meets him

As well as the major exhibitions celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, like the Natural History Museum's 'Darwin: Big Idea', there's a host of smaller events around London to mark the occasion: here's a selection

Alongside the V&A, Science, Natural History and British Museums, the capital has a host of smaller, lesser-known collections. Here's our guide to London's best secret museums

Are you resolved to seeing more London art exhibitions in 2009? Time Out road-tests London museum and gallery membership schemes, including the Tate, the ICA, the V&A and the British Museum, and looks at what you get for your money

The party doesn't end on December 31, there's still plenty of fun to be had in the capital the morning after the night before