396 When the days are short and the countryside is resting under the Winter Weather, London is particularly alive. Besides the annual festival of pantomime and circus there are a host of pleasures on the Londoner's doorstep. There are the museums and galleries, warm and free and full of interest—the Science Museum with its push-button engines; the Victoria and Albert showing the perennial beauty of craftsmanship. But there are many less famous that offer special attractions — the Geffrye with its survey of English furniture, the Bethnal Green with its period dolls' houses.