🇬🇧London

33 museums · 20 exhibitions on now · 8 coming soon

London is one of the world's great art capitals, defined in part by an unusual generosity: permanent collections at Tate Modern, the National Gallery, the V&A, and the British Museum are all free. That policy shapes the entire culture of the city's art scene in ways that are hard to overstate. The South Bank and Bankside anchor contemporary life, with Tate Modern's Turbine Hall serving as the stage for some of the most ambitious large-scale commissions of the past twenty years. Across the river, the National Gallery holds an unmatched survey of European painting; the National Portrait Gallery, recently reopened…