Bank of England Museum

Despite living in London with its rich variety of museums, I am appallingly unacquainted with most of them. It's just that I know they'll always be there and I promise that one day I will visit. And, as my children are taken on regular trips to many of the museums with their school, I feel even less incentive to pay a visit. However, during the Easter holidays, which seem to go on forever, even more so as my husband was also on holiday, I needed a good excuse to prise everyone away from their computer games. I'd checked online for free Easter events, free being the operative word, and the Bank of England Museum popped up as one such event. Although ...  Read the complete review

Another of London's little known museums is the reassuringly free Bank of England Museum. Located, unsurprisingly, in the Bank of England itself, just a few yards from Bank Underground station, the museum reveals the history of this financial institution, as well as explaining a fair amount about what national banks actually do, and how they operate. The museum has been open since November 1988, though still seems not to get that many visitors. The Bank's story is told with several multi-media displays, with videos detailing major events in its history, from its establishment, through the Gordon Riots, to modern techniques for printing bank notes. ...  Read the complete review