Model railways, teddy bears, puppets, dolls' house and dollies are all at home in the many rooms of the two four-story 18th century houses that make up Pollock's Toy Museum. The museum is most famous for its collection of Victorian model theaters as its namesake, Benjamin Pollock, was one of the last publishers of toy theater sheets. A trip here makes an educational and fun outing for children as well as adults with a soft spot for nostalgia. Not to mention, children will love seeing the weird and wonderful toys of the past that have now been replaced by Pokemon and Playstations. Take a look at the ventriloquists' dolls, lead miniatures and puppets, then go and buy some at the toyshop next door.
A museum dedicated to preserving and sharing information about past and present members of the animal kingdom, the Grant Museum of Zoology is home to about 68,000 specimens. The collections here have priceless preserved skeletons and bones of now extinct species like the dodo, the Tasmanian tiger and the quagga. The museum is also home to other invaluable items like the glass models of animals by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka and the bisected animal heads of Sir Victor Negus. With a rich history dating back to 1828, the Grant Museum of Zoology is worth a visit for any inquisitive visitor.
Above Saint Thomas Church in Southwark is London's oldest surviving operating theater. Built in 1821, it was the scene of many amputations carried out with a saw and no anaesthetic. Blood would drip - or probably pour - off the wooden table and get soaked up by three inches of sawdust. One wonders what the congregation below would have thought of the screams emanating from upstairs, with the odd drip of blood seeping through the ceiling. With anesthetics unavailable, patients would often awake from their drunken state (they had a choice of passing out from either alcohol or pain) in the midst of an operation. Fortunately, the National Health Service's operating theaters have taken a leap forward, and medical students don't have such a frighteningly free reign.
Questo edificio non ha sempre goduto del mondialmente famoso indirizzo del più famoso detective del mondo. Infatti il suo numero è diventato 221b in onore del personaggio di Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Il resto del museo è molto fedele alla novella. Ci si può sedere sulla poltrona di Holmes, immergersi nei suoi esperimenti scientifici e esaminare gli oggetti ricordo delle sue avventure. Dedicato ai fanatici di Holmes che non si pentiranno della spesa.
Inaugurato nel 1991, e situato nei bellissimi edifici Grade II (costruiti nel 1721) nello storico Greenwich , questo è l'unico museo al mondo interamente dedicato ai ventilatori ed all'arte del creare ventilatori. I visitatori possono vedere più di 3000 ventilatori prevalentemente antichi provenienti da tutto il mondo, tutti presentati nel loro storico contesto culturale ed economico. C'è una nuova mostra ogni quattro mesi. Oltre all'esposizione del museo, c'è un aranceto tranquillo che si affaccia su un giardino in stile giapponese. Il Museo dei ventilatori ha ricevuto premi per i suoi eccezionali contributi al turismo ed alle arti, e se si ha voglia di progettate individualmente un ventilatore, può essere commissionato al museo ai artigiani suoi altamente qualificati.