All ethnology museums to visit in London

Explore the cultural diversity and heritage at 16 ethnology museums in London. These museums offer insights into the traditions, customs, and ways of life of various communities.

Are you interested in learning about different cultures and their histories? Here are the ethnology museums to visit in London:

  1. British Museum1

    British Museum

     London
    The British Museum is home to one of the largest collections of works and artefacts coming from all over the world. The museum was opened in 1759 and is dedicated to human history, art, and culture. The museum has ten departments with various collections, including artefacts dedicated to indigenous
  2. Horniman Museum and Gardens2

    Horniman Museum and Gardens

     London
    The Horniman Museum and Gardens holds a collection of over 350,000 related to anthropology, natural history and musical instruments. The museum is especially known for its large collection of taxidermied animals. It also features an aquarium.
  3. Jewish Museum London3

    Jewish Museum London

     London
    In the Jewish Museum London visitors learn about the life of British Jews, their history and their culture. The museum was established in 1932 and it comprises of four permanent galleries and two temporary exhibition spaces. The collection includes Jewish ceremonial art, paintings, drawings, photogr
  4. Museum Of Croydon4

    Museum Of Croydon

     Croydon
    Museum Of Croydon is a museum in Croydon. The museum features exhibits related to: social history and decorative and applied art.
  5. Pollock's Toy Museum5

    Pollock's Toy Museum

     London
    Pollock's Toy Museum is the UK's oldest toy museum housing over 7000 toys in 6 magical rooms across two historical buildings in the center of London. Here you will see a huge array of toys form all over the world and from different centuries, including a 4000 year out toy mouse and one of the worlds
  6. The Twickenham Museum6

    The Twickenham Museum

     Twickenham
    The Twickenham Museum is a museum in Twickenham, Middlesex. The museum features exhibits related to: social history.
  7. Greenwich Heritage Centre7

    Greenwich Heritage Centre

     London
    Greenwich Heritage Centre is a museum in London. The museum features exhibits related to: medicine, weapons and war, fine art, science and technology, coins and medals, costume and textiles, archaeology, archives, world cultures, natural sciences, social history, music, decorative and applied art an
  8. Hackney Museum8

    Hackney Museum

     London
    In the Hackney Museum, visitors learn about the stories of people who have moved to Hackney and made it their home, from Anglo-Saxon settlers to early Victorian villas and recent refugees. Through interviews, objects and images, and listening to personal stories of living, working and moving to Hack
  9. Museum No.19

    Museum No.1

     Richmond
    Museum No.1 is a museum in Richmond. The museum features exhibits related to: world cultures and natural sciences.
  10. Sikorski Museum10

    Sikorski Museum

     London
    The Sikorski Museum is a museum that was created by Polish exiles living in London who didn’t want to go back to Poland after World War Two, when it was controlled by the Russians. The museum holds collections of artefacts from the war, all labeled in English as well as Polish.
  11. Brent Museum and Archives11

    Brent Museum and Archives

     London
    Brent Museum holds collections of material about the history of Brent with over 10,000 objects. The museum holds items that are thousands of years old but also objects from the people living and working in Brent today, representing all communities in both the past and the present. Oil paintings, toy
  12. Barnet Local Studies and Archives12

    Barnet Local Studies and Archives

     London
    Barnet Local Studies and Archives is a museum in London. The museum features exhibits related to Archives and Social History.
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    Kingston Museum

     Kingston upon Thames
    Kingston Museum is a museum in Kingston upon Thames. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, world cultures, archaeology, decorative and applied art, coins and medals, fine art, weapons and war, costume and textiles, natural sciences, science and technology, archives and land transp
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    The Museum of Immigration and Diversity

     London
    The Museum of Immigration and Diversity is the first museum of immigration and diversity in Europe. In the museum visitors discover stories of the centuries of newcomers who have shaped Spitalfields, London and Britain.
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    Merton Heritage & Local Studies Centre

     Morden
    Merton Heritage & Local Studies Centre is a museum in Morden. The museum features exhibits related to Social History and Archives.
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    Kurdish Museum, Library and Archive

     London
    The first Museum for the Kurdish heritage in the world is one of the main culture resources for the school-age children of Hammersmith and Fulham Borough and to the academics and researchers in the UK. Let’s make Hammersmith and Fulham Borough more colourful and tourist area for all nations and fo