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London’s Best Museums for Kids

London’s Best Museums for Kids | The Burlington School of English London

 

Articles for kids by the SmithsonianTweenTribune |

 http://tweentribune.com/junior

 

 Features topics about animals, fashion, entertainment, school, science, technology, national and world news written by kids and professional journalists.

 TTribune consists of daily news sites for kids, tweens, and
teens, and includes text, photos, graphics, and audio and/or video
materials prepared by the Smithsonian and others about current events,
history, art, culture and science.

Five of the Strangest Museums in London

The London Fiver – Five of the Strangest Museums in London to Visit on Your Next Trip - Londontopia

 



 
A city such as London is filled to the brim with history, so much so
that you can find a museum in the Greater London area that is dedicated
to just about anything. While places like the British Museum, the Tower
of London, and the National Gallery are must-visits, and places such as
Pollock’s Toy Museum, the Cartoon Museum, and Ripley’s Believe It or Not
can be fun side trips, there are some museums so weird that they demand
to be visited. Have a look below at five of London’s strangest museums.......

PAINTINGS AND ART

Cave painting, contemporary art and everything in between

Smarthistory at Khan Academy offers more than one thousand videos and articles on art from around the world and across time. We are working with more than one hundred
art historians and some of the world's most important museums to make Khan Academy the best art history resource anywhere. 

The history of museums

Madame Tussauds™ London

Madame Tussauds™ London - Official site. .

 

 In the Madame Tussauds Museum located in London more than 400 wax
figures, or portraits, how they are called by museum workers, are
exhibited. They look like alive and it is even difficult to the visitors
to believe they are not alive. Every year this world famous museum is
visited by 2.5 million people. They are attracted by the chance of
standing next to the stars who they would never meet in real life. You
are allowed to touch the artworks in this museum! It is so popular that
the branches were opened in USA recently. In the Madame Tussauds museums
in New York and Las Vegas one can meet all American stars. It's
branches also opened in Holland and Hong Kong. But the one on Baker
Street is the father; it is more than two centuries old and for all this
time it was visited by more than 500 million people. It exceeds the
population of Australia and United States together. The visitors are
welcomed not by the portrait of some star but by the wax statue of aged
woman, amazing woman who started the story. Madame Tussauds
was the artist who lived in Europe more than 200 years ago. At the time
of French revolution she was told to go to cemetery and take the wax
masks of the chopped heads of the royal family members. This terrible
order helped her to find the business of her life. She made so many wax
figures that she took her to different cities of Britain to show people.
Later her sons founded the permanent exposition in London in the same
building where it is today.



 




















 Creepy Historic Photos From Madame Tussauds 'Chamber of Horrors'

 




VIRTUAL TOUR 

 

Visit 221B Baker Street - The Sherlock Holmes Museum

 

221B Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes:


 221b Baker Street. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and his colleague John H. Watson, M.D., spent many years at this address in London, England, under the rent of Mrs. Hudson. Characters of every type have frequented the rooms of this place, calling on Mr. Holmes for help and assistance on mysteries only the finest criminal detective could unravel.

Sherlock Holmes, the amateur detective, chemist, violin player, boxer, and swordsman (among other talents), first appeared in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet in the Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887.



 

read this too, before visiting :

 

The Mystery of 221B Baker Street

Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute  



Google Art Project is an online platform through which the
public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the
initiative’s partner museums. The project was launched on 1 February
2011 by Google, in cooperation with 17 international museums, including the Tate Gallery, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Uffizi, Florence.


The platform enables users to virtually tour partner museums’
galleries, explore physical and contextual information about artworks,
and compile their own virtual collection.

Games and quizzes, in the Kids zone! at National Museums Liverpool

 Stuff to do for kids - play games, watch videos, do quizzes or make stuff at home from National Museums Liverpool.

Games and quizzes, in the Kids zone! at National Museums Liverpool