Blue Guide Museums and Galleries of London (4th edition)

The Blue Guide Museums and Galleries of London is a comprehensive guide to over 150 museums and galleries in London. The book gives detailed descriptions of both buildings and collections, together with highlights, historical information, facilities, opening times, and transport links.

Blue Guides have long enjoyed a reputation as authoritative, accurate and detailed guidebooks. The series began with Blue Guide London in 1918. Findlay Muirhead, experienced English-language editor of the German-originated Baedeker guides, established the Blue Guides with his brother James, after the outbreak of the First World War meant the end of his association with the German firm. They decided to bind the books in blue to distinguish them from their red-jacketed rivals, Baedekers and Murray’s Handbooks. Blue Guides Limited, a Somerset Books company, continues the tradition of publishing excellent guidebooks that respect the heritage of the Blue Guide series.

About the Authors
Tabitha Barber has a degree in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute. She worked for English Heritage and Historic Royal Palaces before taking up a position at the Tate Gallery in 1992, where she is curator of 17th- and 18th-century British art, specialising in the period 1650-1730. She worked on the exhibition Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630 (Tate Gallery, 1995) and curated an exhibition on Mary Beale (Geffrye Museum, 1999). She is currently working on the permanent collection catalogue of Tate's Tudor and Stuart collection.

Charles Godfrey-Faussett has lived in London for the last 18 years. A graduate of Oxford University, he has written general travel guides to Edinburgh, London and England, and contributed to a number of magazines and newspapers, including Country Life, Heritage Today and The Times.

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