MUSEUM OF LONDON

This vast museum traces the history of London over 2,000 years. Highly interactive, it allows you to discover all the major stages in the city's construction, its evolution, its history and its customs. Following a chronological trail, with a succession of picturesque anecdotes, you can follow the course of history. From the arrival of the Romans to the Black Death of the ^14th century, which killed some 50 million people throughout Europe, including almost half of London's population; from the second plague in 1665 to the Great Fire of 1666, which can be seen in an animated reconstruction. At the turn of a room, a bay window offers an exceptional view of part of the Roman fortifications that once surrounded the City (London Wall). Then it's time for the Victorian era, as a whole district is recreated, with its stores, cobbled streets and you, the onlooker! A splendid 1930s car, surrounded by period dresses, pulls you into modernity, and you're projected into the Swinging London of the 1960s. Plenty to discover! This museum is one of our favorites for its modern, playful scenography.

An annex of the museum, Museum of London Docklands, can be visited in East London, on West India Quay. Here, we retrace the city's great port history, through the renovation of 200-year-old warehouses and docks. A fascinating visit that plunges us into the heart of several centuries of trade, migration and commerce.