The London museum days I'm obsessed with, no notes!!

Amara Okafor

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Junior curator, Peckham-based, permanently between exhibition openings and a decent Sunday roast!! Here's the museum round I actually do when I've got a free afternoon (and my Oyster card is begging for mercy). Big houses, tiny houses, one actual walrus. Obsessed, no notes!!

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Name	Comment	Address	City
1British Museum	Obsessed, no notes, with the Great Court on a rainy Tuesday (go early, it gets RAMMED by 11am)!! Everyone crowds the Rosetta Stone but I always drift off to the Enlightenment Gallery instead.	Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG	London
2Tate Modern	Turbine Hall is basically my happy place, especially at golden hour!! The free collection displays on levels 2 and 4 are chef's kiss for a quick lunchtime wander when I'm meant to be working.	Bankside, London SE1 9TG	London
3National Gallery	Trafalgar Square on a late-opening evening, basically empty, is genuinely iconic!! I could stand in the Sainsbury Wing Renaissance rooms for hours, no notes.	Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN	London
4Victoria and Albert Museum	The Cast Courts make me feel medium-sized, which I respect (in a good way)!! The fashion galleries are an actual serotonin boost, I go whenever I need cheering up.	Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL	London
5Tate Britain	Less queue-y than its Bankside sibling and I love it for that (sorry Tate Modern)!! The Rex Whistler mural in the restaurant is wild, go look even if you're not eating.	Millbank, London SW1P 4RG	London
6Wallace Collection	Free, gorgeous, and full of armour I did not expect to care about but now absolutely do!! The Laughing Cavalier lives here and yes, I say hi every single time.	Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN	London
7Sir John Soane's Museum	Candlelit evening openings are the most romantic-but-make-it-academic thing London does, no notes!! Book ahead, this place is TINY and precious and completely worth planning around.	13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP	London
8Whitechapel Gallery	East End energy, brilliant contemporary shows, and I always end up in the bookshop for way too long!! Free entry too, which on a junior curator budget I deeply appreciate.	77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX	London
9Dulwich Picture Gallery	Britain's first purpose-built public gallery and it still feels like a secret garden of a museum!! The mausoleum room gives me chills every single time (good chills, obviously).	Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD	London
11Horniman Museum	The aquarium and that overwhelming taxidermy walrus, need I say more?? Free entry, South London royalty, I bring every visiting friend here to show off.	100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ	London