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Royal Air Force Museum, London

Nov 062008

The Royal Air Force Museum (RAF Museum) is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular.

Royal Air Force Museum, London

The museum is a Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The museum was officially opened at the Colindale (then part of Hendon) London site on November 15, 1972 by Her Majesty The Queen. The hangars housed just 36 aircraft at opening. Over the years, the collection increased and aircraft were stored at RAF stations around the country when they were not on display. While they were being so stored, these aircraft were not publicly displayed. On May 1, 1979, the Cosford site was opened at RAF Cosford, one of the RAF stations which had been used to store the museum’s collection of aircraft. In 1980, the Cosford site agreed to house the British Airways Museum collection, which have now been removed after British Airways withdrew funding. Recently opened is the National Cold War Exhibition. This addition to the museum’s already impressive collection will house the V bombers and other Cold War aircraft, many of which are hung from the Hangar roof. The first Director of the Museum was Dr John Tanner who retired in 1987. In 1988 Dr Michael A Fopp (who had previously directed the London Transport Museum) was appointed and is currently Director General of all three sites covered by the Museum. London tourist attractions.
Royal Air Force Museum, London GPS coordinates: 51° 35′ 56″ N, 0° 14′ 19″ W

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Tower of London

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Feb 232007

Must see!!!
Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress The Tower of London, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic monument in central London on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and is separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill.

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The Tower of London is often identified with the White Tower, the original stark, square fortress built by William the Conqueror in 1078. However, the Tower as a whole is a complex of several buildings set within two parallel rings of defensive walls and a moat.

The Tower’s primary function was a fortress, a royal palace and a prison (particularly for high status and royal prisoners, such as the Princes in the Tower and the future Queen Elizabeth I). This last use has led to the phrase “sent to the Tower” (meaning “imprisoned”). It has also served as a place of execution and torture, an armoury, a treasury, a zoo, a mint, a public records office, an observatory, and since 1303, the home of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

Tower of London GPS coordinates: 51°30′29″N, 0°4′34″W

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London, Tate Britain

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Feb 222007

Place were you can relax and feed your brain. Definitely worth visit

The Tate Modern in London is Britain’s national museum of international modern art and is, with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate Online, part of the group now known simply as Tate.

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The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The building was converted by architects Herzog & de Meuron, after which it stood at 99m tall. The southern third of the building was retained by the French power company EDF Energy as an electrical substation (in 2006, the company released half of this holding)[1]. Since the museum’s opening on 12 May 2000, it has become a very popular destination for Londoners and tourists. Entry to collection displays and some temporary exhibitions is free.

London, Tate Britain GPS coordinates: 51°30′28″N, 0°05′57″W

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London, British Museum

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Feb 222007

This is really one of best museous in the World.
The British Museum in London is one of the world’s greatest museums of human history and culture. Its collections, which number more than 13 million objects from all continents, illustrate and document the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Until 1997, when the British Library opened to the public, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. Its present chairman is Sir John Boyd and its director is Neil MacGregor.

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