The museum is principally a monument to its creator's freewheeling eclecticism: in addition to its small aquarium and its large collection of stuffed creatures, there's a wide-ranging anthropology section, and a musical department with more than 1500 instruments from Chinese gongs to electric guitars.

Mon-Sat 10.30am-5.30pm, Sun 2-5.30pm; free; www.horniman.ac.uk. Forest Hill train station, from ictoria or London Bridge.

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