Museums in Europe

Marie Tussauds mastered the intricacies of creating wax figures in the years when her mother worked as housekeeper for Philip Curtis, a wax figure specialist. Madame Tussauds, who transported her figures around the towns and villages of England (like magicians, circus performers or traveling troupes of the time), settled in London in 1835. In the […]

The sad history of the famous Clink Prison in Southwark, located on Clink Street, begins in 1129, when Henry, cousin of King Stephen of Blois of England, became Archbishop of Winchester. Having gained power and become second in power to the monarch, the violent bishop set up two separate prisons in Winchester Palace, his residence […]

The National Portrait Gallery is one of the most interesting museums in London.It is part of the National Gallery and exhibits, as the name suggests, only portraits. Creation history This gallery was founded in the mid-19th century by three patrons, and when it opened in 1856 it was the first portrait gallery in the world.Most […]

The creator of the theory of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, more than eighty years old with his wife and daughter Anna, in 1938 with great difficulty left Vienna, Austria, escaping the persecution of the Nazis, and settled in London, in a quiet, comfortable and quite nice neighborhood of Hampstead, at 20 Maresfield Gardens, where he lived […]

The London Museum of Public Transport is an example of the frugal attitude towards things that is very characteristic of the English.It’s an example of a careful attitude to things that are very characteristic of the English. Long outdated and useless means of transport of the past and the centuries before are not turned into […]

Everyone knows the careful and reverent attitude of the British to their past, represented in landmarks, castles, cathedrals and, of course, in museums. One of these relic museums, a witness to the history and development of Great Britain, known not only in England, is a ship-museum with a mystical name “Cutty Sark”. Sailors have a […]

London National Gallery is one of the largest art galleries of the British capital. There are more than two thousand masterpieces of Western European painting from the XII to the XX centuries in it, and all pictures in the exposition are located in chronological order. The gallery was opened on April 9, 1839, but the […]

One of the few operating royal palaces in the world today is Buckingham Palace. It is the official residence of Her Majesty the Queen in London. The area of the palace with the garden is about 20 hectares, it has its own police station, two post offices, hospital, swimming pool, bar – in fact, it […]

The British Museum is the central historical and archaeological museum of Great Britain and one of the largest museums in the world. It was founded in 1753 with the permission of the British Parliament. Its exposition occupies 94 galleries, the total length of which is 4 km. It is based on the collections of three […]