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Greenwich is home to the Meridian Line, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the National Maritime Museum, the Old Royal Naval College including the fabulous Painted Hall, London’s cable car, Greenwich Market, Greenwich Park and The O2 arena.Greenwich Market.
Everyone loves the mix of arts and crafts, vintage clothes, hats, cards, antiques and collectables, street food and all sorts of other fantastic stuff.
The Market is also lined with boutiques and small independent shops and galleries.
The Fan Museum has a collection of over 4,000 fans and many of them are out on display in the two Georgian house that make up the museum.
It’s the only museum of its kind in the country.
The Queen’s House was the first classical villa to be built in the UK and very different from the Tudor and Gothic styles which came before. The Queen’s House is home to much of the National Maritime Museum’s art collection and entry is free.
Cutty Sark is the last remaining tea clipper and, in her day, was one of the fastest ships in the world.
During the 19th century, clipper ships would compete with each other to see who could get the first crop of fresh tea from China to the UK and Cutty Sark was one of the main contenders. The ship has been in Greenwich since 1954 and was conserved between 2007 and 2012. She has been raised three meters above the dock which means you can walk underneath her sparkling hull!
The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich is one of the largest maritime museums in the world and has nearly two and a half million objects in its collections.
Try the Ship Simulator and you could find yourself following a helicopter rescue mission to a sinking vessel. And the Ship in a Bottle, originally commissioned for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, is outside the Sammy Ofer Wing looking out into Greenwich Park. Entry is free.
Charles II established the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park in 1675 to study the stars and improve navigation at sea. You can see the clocks John Harrison developed to solve the problem of longitude here and stand astride the dividing point between east and west – the Meridian line. There’s lots more to see as well, including a 4.5 billion year old meteorite, the Great Equatorial Telescope and Greenwich Time Ball, which drops every day at 1.00pm. *Entry not included
The Peter Harrison Planetarium at the Royal Observatory is London’s only planetarium. Combining real images from spacecraft and telescopes with advanced CGI, the Planetarium can fly you into the heart of the Sun, transport you to distant galaxies, show you the birth of a star or land you on Mars! *Entry not included
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