London has a reputation for being an expensive City and, whereas this is true if you stick to the well-trodden and often crowded main attractions, there is so much that is free in London.

Walks, for example, make a great and cheap way of getting around. Not only do you save on the tube, bus or taxi fare, but you also get to see so much more of what is a truly fascinating and wonderful City.

Many of London’s museums are totally free to visit and yet you could easily lose yourself for a day inside them. The British Museum, The Natural History Museum and the Victoria an Albert Museum all offer immense and fascinating collections for you to experience and explore.

Smaller museums include the Sir John Soane Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields which is a time-capsule showing a collectors house from the first half of the 19th century. The Soane Museum isn’t a museum as such but is left exactly how the architect John Soane  lived in it and is an absolute joy to discover.

Across the fields from Sir John Soane’s House is the Royal College of Surgeons Building, covered on our Medical London walks and which has a first floor museum dedicated to the history of surgery. Again this is free of charge and the collection is fascinating, although perhaps a little gruesome.

You can see the skeleton of the infamous Jonathan Wilde. You can view Winston Churchill’s dentures and half of the brain of Charles Babbage, the 18th century computing pioneer. The museum opens Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm.

Another museum not to be missed is one that we have featured on our Historic City of London walks. The Museum of London tells the story of this great city and is a fantastic place. It can keep you occupied for the best part of the day and doesn’t cost a penny to go inside.

So you see. London can be expensive. But it can also offer exceedingly good value for money, and if you use our free London walks routes on our sister site www.walksoflondon.co.uk to plan your own explorations of London you really can get so much out of this city that well and truly has something to suit all tastes and budgets.