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London Canal Museum


TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #355 of 1,240 attractions in London
Traveller Description:
A waterside museum of London's canals and the Victorian ice trade, set in a former ice warehouse of the 1860s. It tells the colourful story of the...... more » A waterside museum of London's canals and the Victorian ice trade, set in a former ice warehouse of the 1860s. It tells the colourful story of the canals, their people, horses and trade. Peer down into a huge ice well, uniquely preserved, and learn about the ice trade. Go inside a narrowboat cabin, meet the horse, and watch archive film. Free MP3 audio tour for download from the museum website for your own player. « less
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Attraction type: History museum
Address: 12-13 New Wharf Road
Kings Cross London N1 9RT
England
Tel: 44-20-7713-0836

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[ Date ] [ Rating ]
2 Jun 2007
1
person found this review helpful

Surely this is not a must attraction. However, if you have some free time and happen around the area of Kings' Cross tube station, one could go and give a look. The museum in itself it is quite small, and very few items are on display. It gives an indication of the importance which the LOndon canals had for the... more

Management response from
MartinLCM, Chairman

Most visitors spend around one hour to one and a half hours in the museum. The building is on two floors and could not be described as small, although certainly not on the scale of the major national museums. We find that around a third of visitors spontaneously tell us that they enhjoyed their visit and in surveys at least...

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London Canal Museum Address

12-13 New Wharf Road | Kings Cross, London N1 9RT, England
Tel: 44-20-7713-0836