Best places: Heritage museums in Greater London

Lawn tennis venue for annual Wimbledon Grand Slam championship, with museum, tours and restaurants.

16th-century, English Renaissance style mansion housing natural history museum, set in parkland.

1930s art deco house with a medieval great hall & ornamental gardens with picnic & play areas.

Pottery workshops in a canalside brick building from 1888, featured on the TV show "Peaky Blinders."

Mansion inspired by Earl of Burlington's grand tours of Italy, with restored gardens & statuary.

Tower of London attraction with a collection of historic royal diamonds & gemstones on display.

Restored windmill, built in the 1800s, with workings on display and kids' scientific discovery zone.

Restored Gothic castle, once home to Horace Walpole, with a landscaped garden, tours & a cafe.

👍👍 Excellent free exhibition space with changing exhibitions about black history and experience in the UK and around the world. An excellent shop.

Folly dating to the 18th century, with ornate rooms & an observation deck for forest & city views.

👍👍 Terrific eclectic museum, run entirely by enthusiastic volunteers, tucked away in the backstreets of Walthamstow. Model railway, couple of tube trains, pumping engines, local history, and cafe. Has a great vibe. I've no idea how it's kept going for free. Very much a labour of love.

Heritage showcase for Wedgwood, with demonstrations, hands-on clay fun, factory tours and shopping.

Palladian villa in riverside parkland, with hand-painted Chinese wallpaper & Georgian artworks.

Restored Spitalfields home displaying 18th-century lifestyle, with private tours & events.

World's leading museum of urban transport with galleries of vintage London trams, trains & buses.

Modern museum with a re-created Victorian Jewish Quarter, historical artefacts & Holocaust tales.

A grand collection of royal transport including horses, cars & the fancy 1762 Gold State Coach.

Queen Anne-period mansion that hosts regular art and history exhibitions, concerts and recitals.

Museum and library in Keats' former residence, with collections of letters, effects and poems.

Historic weaponry and armour on display in the White Tower at the Tower of London.