things to do in London

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.