Apsley House
Museums & Science Centres · Westminster, Inner London
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 11am
🏠 IndoorEducational☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Limited parking
Limited free parking for disabled visitors only; must be booked in advance. Parking spaces are 5-15m from the entrance.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Apsley House, at Hyde Park Corner in central London, was built in the 1770s by Robert Adam and later remodelled for the first Duke of Wellington. It is still the London residence of the Dukes of Wellington, and part of the house is open to visitors as a museum. Inside, families can walk through Regency rooms, including the Waterloo Gallery, and see paintings from the Spanish royal collection, porcelain, silver and memorabilia of the Duke's career. A colossal statue of Napoleon as Mars is among the sculptures on show. A multimedia guide is available, and the museum offers school visits and occasional guided tours, where children go free. It suits older children with an interest in history, art or the Napoleonic wars, and it is a short walk from Wellington Arch and Hyde 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.
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Notebook
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Bum bag
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- Hand sanitiser
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