Leighton House Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Kensington, Inner London
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 IndoorEducational
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Leighton House was the home and studio of the Victorian painter Frederic, Lord Leighton, and is now run as a museum by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The highlight for most visitors is the Arab Hall, with its golden dome, mosaics and walls covered in Islamic tiles, and the rooms are furnished to show how a nineteenth-century artist lived and worked. Upstairs, the great studio shows the light and scale in which Leighton painted. The museum also runs temporary exhibitions and family workshops for children aged around five to ten, so it suits older children who enjoy art and history as well as adults. The visit is indoors and fairly short, and it pairs well with a walk through nearby Holland Park.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Rucksack
- Plasters
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
- Backseat organiser
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