Best places: Art museums in Thanet, United Kingdom

Trafalgar Square art museum whose masterworks trace the development of Western European painting.

Blockbuster exhibitions and permanent decorative arts collection, with design shop and ornate cafe.

Recreations of WWI trenches and the Blitz, many tanks and planes and revolving military exhibitions.

Imposing gallery with historic and contemporary British art, notable for its JMW Turner collection.

Ancient & modern art & antiquities covering world civilisations, plus fine & applied arts.

Museum of world-sourced antiques, sculpture, artworks and armour, set within a palatial townhouse.

Eccentric 19th-century collector's home, packed with classical sculpture, paintings and curiosities.

Interactive exhibits of mechanical art and design with buttons, handles, lights and sound effects.

Elegant gallery with a wide collection of art, including works by Monet, Van Gogh & Cézanne.

Neapolitan and British art in a Georgian stately home in 120 acres landscaped by Capability Brown.

Former home & workspace of a famed 20th-century sculptor, plus sprawling grounds with outdoor art.

Victorian mansion built for Baron de Rothschild filled with fine artworks and a famous wine cellar.

👍 It's an amazing experience being in a show of his pictures. It's a rotating carousel of his pictures which come to life in 3D. With his most famous paintings coming to life and having movement. It's based in a church and the area is changing not a walk through of rooms. I came at 10:15 and I was the...

Ancient, modern and ethnographic art collections exhibited in light-filled, modernist spaces.

Museum showing 17th-century portraits & other works tracing city history, plus a Roman amphitheater.

Former home of Lord Leighton with intricately tiled Arab Hall, paintings & sculpture collection.

Purpose-built Edwardian art gallery exhibiting collection of works by Victorian painter G.F. Watts.

University-run art gallery set in a large stone family estate, showcasing 20th-century works.

Up-and-coming and established contemporary art exhibited in 19th-century Duke of York headquarters.

A wide-range of Royal Collection treasures, including Lucian Freud's portrait of the Queen.