Attractions
From free world-class museums to royal palaces and secret gardens, the Royal Borough packs an extraordinary amount into a small area.
Museum
Home to 80 million specimens spanning billions of years of life on Earth, including the iconic blue whale skeleton.
The world's greatest museum of art and design, with 5,000 years of human creativity across 145 galleries.
Five floors of interactive science exhibits, from Stephenson's Rocket to the Apollo 10 command module.
Dedicated to contemporary design and architecture, in a striking modernist building in Holland Park.
Palace & Historic House
Royal residence and birthplace of Queen Victoria, now home to permanent exhibitions and royal gardens.
The extraordinary private palace of Victorian painter Lord Leighton, centred on a dazzling Arab Hall.
Park & Garden
London's oldest botanic garden, founded in 1673, with over 5,000 medicinal and useful plants.
A romantic woodland park with peacocks, a Japanese Kyoto Garden, and the open-air Holland Park Opera.
Royal park adjoining Hyde Park, home to the Peter Pan statue, Diana Memorial Playground, and the Serpentine.
Gallery
London's premier contemporary art gallery in a stunning 70,000 sq ft space on the King's Road.
Two cutting-edge contemporary art galleries in the heart of Kensington Gardens, with a famous annual pavilion.
