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London Museums for Children London is a city of museums both grand and small. While they are all suitable for people of all ages, what we have here is a selection that we feel the younger ones will especially enjoy. A museum to buses and trams The London Transport Museum is a repository of public transportation vehicles used throughout London’s modern history. The collection began in the 1920’s with Victorian-era horse buses and a B-type motor bus. It has since grown and is housed today in what was the Flower Market at Covent Garden. It was built in the Victorian architecture style that can also be observed in 19th century railway stations. The stars of the collection are the buses, trains and trams which once plied the streets of London. The collection includes the locomotive for the earliest underground railway, which commenced operations in the middle of the 19th Century. Apart from the vehicles, the museum also exhibits a collection of equipment such as the bus conductor’s ticket machine, uniforms worn by staff, miniature models public transport vehicles, information posters and maps and bus stop signs. The children's museum What better museum to bring children to than the Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green. A branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Childhood Museum was originally dedicated to animal and food products. However, as time went by, the focus shifted to children and childhood material. It has operated as a dedicated museum about childhood since 1974. With a collection of teddy bears, dollhouses, moving toys, traditional Punch & Judy puppet theatres and dolls, the Childhood Museum will offer informative exhibits which could help your children gain a better insight how many of the games we play have evolved over time. The collection is, of course, not only dedicated to play but also displays baby and children’s clothing, nursery room furniture and baby equipment. To entertain as well as to inform your child, the museum organises a series of daily activities such as arts and crafts, music and dance, as well as puppetry performances by staff. The museum today is also dedicated to a study of childhood in foreign cultures, so you can learn together with your child how children across the world are different and yet at the same time share similarities. Waxing lyrical about the celebrated, the hideous and the infamous A must see for children and adolescents in London is Madame Tussaud’s and London Planetarium. The wax museum at Madame Tussaud’s now has branches in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, New York and Las Vegas, but the London gallery remains the first one that comes to mind when you mention Madame Tussaud to the casual listener.
The wax museum was founded by Madame Tussaud, born Marie Grosholz.
She learnt the art of wax modeling from Phillippe Curtius, who
opened a wax museum in Paris in 1770. After his death, Marie
inherited some of Curtius’ collection and later moved to London. She
had been making wax models of heads cut off by the guillotine during
the Reign of Terror in Paris. Today, new models must meet high
standards and must be visually indistinguishable from the real life
persons who pose for the wax models, before the models can be
publicly displayed.
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