STORY "London" - Chapter Eight

Museums and Galleries

The British Museum in Great Russel Street is the biggest museum in Britain. Tickets are free.

The Museum of London at 150, London Wall is one of the most interesting museums in the city. It tells the story of London and its people.

One more museum that telss a story is the Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI), on the South Bank (under Waterloo Bridge).

This tells the story of cinema and television, and there are many things for visitors to see and do. You can act with actors on a film ‘set’. Or you can read the news on TV!

Four million people visit the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square every year. They come to look at more than two thousand pictures. Tickets are free.

At the National Portrait Gallery in St.Martin’s Palce, you can see pictures of famous people. Tickets are free here, too.

The London Dungeon I nToolcy Street is a ‘Museum of Horro’.

Half a million people visit it every year, but they don’t always stay to see it all!

Madame Tussaud’s in Marvlehonc Road is famous for its people made from wax. You can see famous people from the past and famous people of today _Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Pavarotti, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Sylvester Stallone. And in the ‘Chamber of Horrors’ you can see some every bad people!

_to be continued