Location: Southwark
Top Things to do in Southwark
Top 10 Museums in Southwark, England
The crown jewels, Buckingham Palace, Camden Market…in London, history collides with art, fashion, food, and good British ale. A perfect day is different for everyone: culture aficionados shouldn't miss the Tate Modern and the Royal Opera House. If you love fashion, Oxford Street has shopping galore. For foodies, cream tea at Harrod’s or crispy fish from a proper chippy offers classic London flavor. Music and book buffs will love seeing Abbey Road and the Sherlock Holmes Museum (at 221B Baker Street, of course).
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1. Eames Fine Art
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 2 reviews
Reviewed By futtock21 - London, United Kingdom
Eames Fine Art is now almost as synonymous with Bermondsey art as White Cube as the premier cultural destinations in Bermondsey Street, also a Mecca for fine dining having attracted moth-like Jose Pissarro and Dame Angela Hartnett amongst other culinary luminaries. In addition to the original gallery at No. 58 towards the top end of the street there’s now a Print Room almost opposite White Cube not to mention a studio stock room only the latter currently closed in this time of health emergency. I was lucky enough to catch one of the last days of the exhibition in the print room of exquisitely crafted and vibrantly coloured monoprints by the talented Sophie Layton whom I had the pleasure of meeting at the gallery itself. I spotted names on browsers including Amanda Danicic, Harvey Daniels (whom Sophie told me was her teacher at Brighton) and Henri Matisse (who teaches and edifies us all). Just down the road in the gallery I caught the start of an exhibition of prints by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. It’s one of the largest exhibitions I’ve seen of Hepworth prints outside the Hepworth in Wakefield. With names such as Opposing Forms, Moonplay and Olympus they seem to invoke Greek Gods and elemental forces in equal measure. Henry Moore’s human figures seem much more prosaic and vulnerable by comparison. My personal favourites are the small yellow and black seated figures from the late 1960s unsurprising already sold.
2. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
3. Golden Hinde
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4.5 based on 562 reviews
Visit this living-history museum and find out what it was like to sail the mighty seas aboard an Elizabethan galleon during the adventurous days of the 16th century.
Reviewed By RuthieRoy
Walking past this famous replica of Francis Drake’s ship, and pausing to read an information board, a total stranger enthusiastically encouraged us to go onboard as she found it fascinating. The entrance fee was just £5 per adult. Is this the best visitor attraction at that price we wonder? We are so pleased we followed her advice- we very much enjoyed our tour of the ship. The talks given by their excellent staff were so interesting and very informative. Highly recommended.
4. London Glassblowing
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 48 reviews
British glassworks shop.
Reviewed By curlytail55 - Cleethorpes, United Kingdom
We passed by after our visit to White Cube Gallery on the same street. Free to enter, we watched 3 men working as a tight-knit team, creating a large glass object. The finished work on display and for sale is world-beating. It is superb and beautiful.
5. Bankside Gallery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 48 reviews
Reviewed By Wallythereddragon
May I recommend that you come to see this exhibition which celebrates the inspirational teaching of Hugo Grenville. Subject: Invitation to Companions in Colour Exhibition at Bankside Gallery. until Sunday 2 February 11am to 6pm COMPANIONS IN COLOUR An Exploration of Colour and Light through the Work of Hugo Grenville and his Alumni on Tuesday 28th January, 6 to 10pm BANKSIDE GALLERY Thames Riverside 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH Exhibition runs until 2nd February 2020 Open daily 11am to 6pm
6. Kirkaldy Testing Museum
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4.5 based on 18 reviews
Reviewed By BertholdGreen - Perth, United Kingdom
If you see one 118 ton, 47' 7" universal testing machine this year then be sure that it's Dundonian David Kirkaldy's at the Kirkaldy Testing Museum in Southwark, London. Inside the 1860s brick building, just behind Tate Modern, are wonderful examples of 19th century engineering used to test the tensile strength of various materials at the factory between 1866 and 1965. The main feature is the original 1865 Leeds-built Universal Testing Machine which is in full working order and lovingly maintained by enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteers. 2020 is the bicentenary of David Kirkaldy's birth in Dundee. Kirkaldy was an extraordinary man even by Victorian standards; he deserves to be better known and his contribution to Victorian engineering more appreciated. The museum volunteers are on hand on the last Sunday each month to explain the history of the Kirkaldys, and practical historical applications of the machines.
7. Jimmy Cauty's Model Village
8. Menier Gallery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2 reviews
The Menier Gallery offers a dramatic space to view and exhibit works of contemporary art and design. The gallery is situated within the historic Menier Chocolate Factory, minutes from London Bridge, Borough Market and Tate Modern. The gallery is located at the heart of one of London's artistic hubs, and attracts many visitors, including art lovers, theatregoers, local residents and tourists.
9. Tate Museum Of Contempory Art London
10. Tate Modern
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 10,211 reviews
A visit to London isn't complete without a trip to Tate Modern. Tate Modern is Britain's national museum of modern and contemporary art from around the globe, and the world’s most visited contemporary art gallery. Housed in the former Bankside Power Station on the banks of the Thames, the awe-inspiring Turbine Hall is the dramatic setting for new art commissions. The collection is free to visit and you can see great works of art from Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, Henri Matisse, Cornelia Parker, Pablo Picasso, and Mark Rothko – to name a few.
Reviewed By ramonanovi - Oradea, Romania
An architectural masterpiece of re-conversion. A great demonstration of the power of the modern concepts which are able to transform an ancient Power Station into an amazing exhibition of contemporary works of art and experiments. The inner space is awesome, full of plasticity, mobility, I was overwhelmed by its stateliness, by its grandiloquent architectural language.
