The Fan Museum

The Fan Museum
London has plenty of strange, offbeat - and often brilliant - museums. For example, there's the Fan Museum in Greenwich, south-east London: a museum dedicated entirely to fans (above, the Duchess of Cornwall admires one of their exhibits). If that doesn't sound like your sort of thing, try the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green (filled with toys from around the world); fascinating medical history from the Wellcome Collection or the Anaesthesia Museum; the Type Museum (all about typography); or the Museum of Brands, dedicated to the history of consumer culture.