Places to go in London

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  Sir John Soane's Museum

  Preserved exactly as it was upon the architect's death in 1837, this atmospheric townhouse museum is one of London's most eccentric treasures. Daylight filters through domed skylights onto labyrinthine rooms packed with thousands of classical antiquities, architectural casts, and paintings by Hogarth and Turner. Visitors come to marvel at its ingenious use of space and rare curiosities, including the 3,000-year-old alabaster sarcophagus of Pharaoh Seti I.

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  The Wallace Collection

  Housed within an elegant 18th-century townhouse in Marylebone, The Wallace Collection showcases a world-class assortment of fine and decorative arts, historic arms and armour, and 18th-century French furniture. Visitors come to admire masterworks like Fragonard's The Swing and Frans Hals' The Laughing Cavalier displayed in opulent, remarkably preserved domestic galleries.