Contact details for museums in the borough

• 18 Stafford Terrace 
  Tel: Monday to Friday: 020 7602 3316
  18 Stafford Terrace W8 7BH
  Description: The home of Edward Linley Sambourne, the Punch cartoonist and his family. Now a unique museum offering a chance to see a fully preserved Victorian family dwelling....
  
  
• Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women 
  Tel: 020 8202 2323
  Shield House Harmony Way NW4 2BZ
  Description: Charitable organisation working to ensure the welfare of Jewish ex-servicemen & women. ...
  
  
• Baden Powell House
  Tel: 020 7584 7031
  Queen's Gate SW7 5JS
  Description: Exhibition of Robert Baden-Powell founder of Scout and Guide movements. Also contains a hostel....
  
  
• British Postal Museum & Archive
  Tel: 020 7239 2570
  Freeling House Phoenix Place WC1X 0DL
  Description: The BPMA is the leading resource for all aspects of British postal history, preserving and celebrating four centuries of the Royal Mail....
  
  
• Carlyle's House
  Tel: 020 7352 7087
  24 Cheyne Row SW3 5HL
  Description: The Chelsea home of Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle who was known as 'The Sage of Chelsea'....
  
  
• Chelsea Physic Garden
  Tel: 020 7352 5646 (ex.28)
  66 Royal Hospital Road SW3 4HS
  Description: Chelsea Physic Garden is London's oldest botanical garden that is set behind walls on the bank of the Thames hence its reputation as London's "Secret Garden"...
  
  
• Florence Nightingale Museum
  Tel: 020 7620 0374
  St Thomas' Hospital 2 Lambeth Palace Road SE1 7EW
  Description: Museum celebrating the life of Florence Nightingale the founder of modern nursing. Discover the woman behind the legend....
  
  
• Friends of Leighton House Museum & Linley Sambourne House
  Tel: 020 7602 3316 ext. 306
  Leighton House Museum 12 Holland Park Road W14 8LZ
  Description: The Friends act as ambassadors for the two houses. They organise and promote a programme of events and exhibitions at both houses, and support ongoing restoration and refurbishment work....
  
  
• Handel House Museum
  Tel: 020 7495 1685
  25 Brook Street W1K 4HB
  Description: Museum celebrating the life and work of George Frideric Handel. This was Handel's home from 1723 until his death in 1759....
  
  
• Kensington Palace State Apartments and Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection
  Tel: 0844 482 7799
  The Broad Walk Kensington Gardens W8 4PX
  Description: Historic royal palace within Kensington Gardens...
  
  
• Leighton House Museum
  Tel: 020 7602 3316
  12 Holland Park Road W14 8LZ
  Description: Museum...
  
  
• Museum and Library of the Order of St John
  Tel: 020 7324 4005
  St John's Gate St John's Lane EC1M 4DA
  Description: Museum and library of the Order of St John. Discover the medical, religious and military roles of the Hospitallers; the history of St John's Gate and of St John Ambulance....
  
  
• Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
  Tel: 020 7908 0880
  2 Colville Mews Lonsdale Road W11 2AR
  Description: Museum...
  
  
• Museum of Fulham Palace
  Tel: 020 7736 3233
  Bishops Avenue SW6 6EA
  Description: Museum that tells the story of Fulham Palace, its history, gardens, architecture, archeology and the lives of the Bishops of London....
  
  
• National Army Museum
  Tel: 020 7730 0717
  Royal Hospital Road SW3 4HT
  Description: Discover the impact the British Army has had on the story of Britain,Europe and the world, and see how the actions of a few can effect the futures of many....
  
  
• Natural History Museum
  Tel: 020 7942 5000
  Cromwell Road SW7 5BD
  Description: Museum of the natural world; there are a huge range of exhibits from animated dinosaurs to an earthquake experience...
  
  
• Royal Hospital Chelsea
  Tel: 020 7881 5200
  Royal Hospital Road SW3 4SR
  Description: The world famous home of the Chelsea Pensioners - also housing a museum,lanscaped gardens,post office and souvenir shop....
  
  
• Royal Hospital Chelsea Museum
  Tel: 020 7881 5487
  Royal Hospital Road SW3 4SR
  Description: Museum of the famous Royal Hospital, Chelsea and its Chelsea Pensioners....
  
  
• Science Museum
  Tel: 0870 870 4868 (bookings and enquiries)
  Tel: 020 7942 4446 (disability access line)
  Tel: 020 7942 4445 (minicom line)
  Tel: 020 7942 4777 (education bookings)
  Tel: 020 7942 4461(group guided tours - non education only)
  Exhibition Road SW7 2DD
  Description: National museum of humankind's greatest inventions and achievements...
  
  
• The British Library Sound Archive
  Tel: 020 7412 7676
  96 Euston Road NW1 2DB
  Description: One of the largest sound archives in the world with over 1 million discs of music, oral history, drama, literature and wildlife sounds.There are also extensive holdings of books, periodicals,record company catalogues and discographies....
  
  
• The Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments
  Tel: 020 7591 4346
  Prince Consort Road SW7 2BS
  Description: Internationally renowned collection of musical instruments...
  
  
• Victoria and Albert Museum
  Tel: 020 7942 2000
  Cromwell Road SW7 2RL
  Description: National museum of art and design....
  
  
• William Morris Society
  Tel: 020 8741 3735
  Kelmscott House 26 Upper Mall Hammersmith W6 9TA
  Description: Aims to promote interest in the life and work of William Morris through lectures and visits and the opening of its museum....