London Bookstores

London East End Art Galleries

For contemporary art East End has launched London as major contemporary art scene in the world together with New York and Berlin, and become the most popular artistic target for visitors, dealers, artists with lots of small, renowned and independent art galleries. Regent Park hosts Art Frieze yearly in late October as one of the biggest world's art fair .
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London Art Galleries

Art Galleries in London are distinctly dissimilar or unlike verying from the well recognized (National Gallery, Tate Britain), to the more new improvers (Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery), to thousands of independent galleries dispersed all over London (The East End Galleries).

The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery has one of the most important collections in Britain, including works by Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne and Turner.

Museums of London

The grand tour' of London started in the 18th century as an extended cultural tour of Europe taken by wealthy young Englishmen as part of their education. They helped London to become one of the main cultural centres of Europe. The London museums collected an immense wealth of art objects from their own history and the whole of western civilization, also gained a large amount of artefacts from oriental treasures of their colonies.