With some of the best exhibit and artworks in the world, the British Museum is appealing visually and stimulating for the mind. Within the museum, the Egyptian room and Rosetta Stone are a must-see.
The playground here will keep kids amused for hours. There are fast slides going into the sandpit and really tricky climbing equipment to challenge older children, plus lots for toddlers to enjoy. Leer más.
The children's playground at Highbury Fields in Islington is popular, combining old-fashioned thrills with more recent additions, such as the flying fox and giant, web-like climbing frames. Leer más.
Regent's Park has several playgrounds, but the most interesting is at Hanover Gate where, in 2010, a new timber treehouse area for older kids was built within a large sandpit next to the boating lake. Leer más.
This commemorative play area is easily the best bit of Kensington Gardens for a child. A huge pirate ship on its own beach takes centre stage and beyond this lies the tepee camp. Leer más.
The Bankside Power Station was built as a ‘cathedral of power’ in 1963, but closed in 1981. It reopened as one of Europe’s finest modern art galleries in 2000. The Turbine Hall is 35m high.
It's OK. I think it's overpriced for what it is. Staff clearly want to be someplace else!
Always a cool place to hang out every year - Fortnums providing the cafe facilities this year!
"Central St Martins is based in the re-developed Granary Building. Click to listen to architect Paul Williams talk about how they adapted this building which was once used as a hub for grain storage." Leer más.
"Do you know how King’s Cross got its name? Click to listen to historian Alan Dein talking about the various names that the area used to have and the monument that was built for King George IV" Leer más.
"Click to listen to historians Alan Dein and Richard Barnett evoke the history of Argyle Square, once famous for its healing spas and wells but later falling into disrepute in the 20th century." Leer más.
"Click to listen to Kristian Jensen, head of Arts and Humanities at the British Library, talk about the special collections at the British Library which make it so unique." Leer más.
The park on this beautiful walled garden site is the best for miles around. There's an enormous sandpit and all sorts of toddler climbing frames, plus an adventure playground for the older kids. Leer más.
Clissold Park opened a new wheels park, all-weather table tennis table and basketball area early in 2011. Leer más.
Vicky Park is wonderful for youngsters: the V&A Playground is equipped with swings etc, and the fantastically designed Pools Playground encourages creative play. Leer más.
Housed in a set of 18th-century almshouses, the Geffrye Museum offers a vivid physical history of the English interior. Leer más.
Home to one of the world's finest collections of children's toys, dolls' houses, games and costumes. Leer más.
The collection is unmatched (150 million items and counting), and the reading rooms (open only to cardholders) are so popular that regular users are now complaining that they can't find a seat. Leer más.
Upstairs, the chronological displays begin with 'London Before London', where artefacts include flint axes from 300,000 BC, found near Piccadilly, and the bones of an aurochs. Leer más.
The most popular part of the museum is its showpiece Aquarium, where a series of tanks and rockpools cover seven distinct aquatic ecosystems. Leer más.
The world's largest maritime museum contains a huge store of creatively organised maritime art, cartography, models and regalia. Leer más.
The NHM opened in Alfred Waterhouse's purpose-built, Romanesque palazzo on the Cromwell Road in 1881. Now joined by the splendid Darwin Centre extension. Leer más.
Only marginally less popular with kids than its natural historical neighbour, the Science Museum is a celebration of the wonders of technology in the service of our daily lives. Leer más.
The V&A is one of the world's most magnificent museums, its foundation stone laid on this site by Queen Victoria in her last official public engagement in 1899. Leer más.
Officially the country's most popular tourist attraction, the British Museum opened to the public in 1759 in Montagu House, which then occupied this site. Leer más.
Designed by architect Sir John Soane to house his own collection of paintings and architectural salvage. Leer más.
The collection includes remains of many rare and extinct animals, such as a dodo and the skeleton of the zebra-like quagga, which was hunted out of existence in the 1880s. Leer más.
