Places to visit in Westminster, London

Parks, markets and landmarks in Westminster, London.

• Westminster Abbey · Heritage

  Collegiate church and coronation church beside Parliament.

• Houses of Parliament · Landmark

  Palace of Westminster, home of the UK Parliament.

• National Gallery · Culture

  Art museum on Trafalgar Square.

• London Eye · Landmark

  Cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank.

• Trafalgar Square · Landmark

  Public square with Nelson's Column.

• Covent Garden · Shopping

  Historic market and shopping district.

• Southbank Centre · Culture

  Arts complex including the Royal Festival Hall.

• Albert Memorial · Historic

  The Albert Memorial is a Gothic Revival ciborium in Kensington Gardens, London, designed and dedicated to the memory of Prince Albert of Great Britain. Located directly north of the Royal Albert Hall, it was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, who died in 1861. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, it takes the form of an ornate canopy or pavilion 176 feet (54 m) tall over the high altar of a church, sheltering a statue of the prince facing south. It took over ten years to complete, the £120,000 cost met by public subscription.

• Apsley House · Culture

  Apsley House is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington. It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park, facing towards the large traffic roundabout in the centre of which stands the Wellington Arch. It is a Grade I listed building.

• Boydell Shakespeare Gallery · Culture

  The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London, England, was the first stage of a three-part project initiated in November 1786 by engraver and publisher John Boydell in an effort to foster a school of British history painting. In addition to the establishment of the gallery, Boydell planned to produce an illustrated edition of William Shakespeare's plays and a folio of prints based upon a series of paintings by different contemporary painters. During the 1790s the London gallery that showed the original paintings emerged as the project's most popular element.

• Burton’s Court · Parks

  park in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom

• Dunhill Museum & Archive · Culture
• Green Park · Parks

  The Green Park, one of the Royal Parks of London, is in the City of Westminster, Central London. Green Park is to the north of the gardens and semi-circular forecourt of Buckingham Palace, across Constitution Hill road. The park is in the middle of a near-continuous chain of green spaces in Westminster that includes St James's Park, Hyde Park, and Kensington Gardens. To the northeast of Green Park is the district of St James's including, Lancaster House, Clarence House, and St James's Palace.

• Hyde Park · Parks

  Hyde Park is a 350-acre (140-hectare), historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park. Hyde Park is divided by the Serpentine and the Long Water lakes.

• King's Gallery · Culture

  the main public art gallery of Buckingham Palace

• Raoul Wallenberg Monument · Historic
• Royal Collection · Culture

  art collection of the British royal family spread among more than thirteen royal residences and former residences

• Royal Parks of London · Parks

  lands originally owned by the monarchy of the United Kingdom

• Serpentine Galleries · Culture

  a complex of two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, in the center of London. These are the Serpentine Gallery and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery

• Smythson Stationery Museum · Culture
• St James Workhouse · Culture
• St James's Park · Parks

  St James's Park is a 23-hectare (57-acre) urban park in the City of Westminster, central London. A Royal Park, it is at the southernmost end of the St James's area, which was named after a once isolated medieval hospital dedicated to St James the Less, now the site of St James's Palace. The area was initially enclosed for a deer park near the Palace of Whitehall for King Henry VIII in the 1530s. It is the most easterly of a near-continuous chain of public parks that includes Green Park, Hyde Park, and Kensington Gardens.

• Statue of John Henry Newman · Historic

  The statue of John Henry Newman is an outdoor sculpture of the English cardinal, oratorian, and theologian of the same name by Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud, installed outside Brompton Oratory in London, United Kingdom.

• The Brown Collection · Culture
• The Cartoon Museum · Culture
• The Fleming Collection · Culture

  museum in London

• The Photographers' Gallery · Culture
• Twist Museum · Culture
• UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre · Culture

  hospital in England

• Victoria Memorial · Historic

  memorial to Queen Victoria in London, England, UK

• Albion Jeune · Landmark
• Alison Jacques Gallery · Landmark
• Beaux Arts · Landmark
• Handel & Hendrix · Culture
• Ken Artspace · Landmark
• London Duck Tours · Landmark
• Michael Werner Gallery · Landmark
• Paradox Museum · Culture
• Pontone Gallery · Landmark
• South Bank Book Market · Landmark
• The Glassworks Gallery · Landmark
• Thompson's Gallery · Landmark
• Topolski Century · Culture
• Zari Gallery · Landmark
• London Zoo · Family

  Scientific zoo in the north of Regent's Park.

• Hyde Park · Parks

  Royal park in central London.

• Regent's Park · Parks

  Royal park with gardens, a lake and London Zoo.

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