Museums, Galleries and Monuments

Your highlights tour starts in the Museum's Great Hall - one of London's finest public spaces. Then on to see the Rosetta stone - the inscriptions that decoded the hieroglyphs. Discover ancient Egypt with a visit to the finest collection of mummies outside Cairo. Then the classical world: ancient Greece the Romans, followed by the Lewis Chess Set which inspired the chess pieces in Harry Potter.

Daily, plus Thursday and Friday evening. 2 Hours. From £150.

National Gallery:
The National Gallery is Britain's greatest art collection - with 2,500 paintings covering 500 years of European art history.

This highlights tour takes in the National's greatest paintings; including Van Eyck's masterful oil The Arnolfini Portrait, Bronzini's erotic icon Venus and Cupid, Leonardo's Madonna on the Rocks, the fabulous Rembrandt room, Britain's favourite painting Turner's Fighting Temeraire, Van Gogh's Sunflowers and the Impressionist masterworks.

Daytimes and Wednesday evenings. 2 Hours. From £150

National Portrait Gallery:
The masterpieces of the National Portrait Gallery tell a tale of love triangles and affairs, of triumph, genius, madness, of espionage.

Meet the Brits who changed the world: Queen Elizabeth I, whose privateering adventurers Raleigh and Drake founded the first colonies; Sir Isaac Newton who discovered gravity, (and the cat flap); Charles Darwin whose adventures on the Beagle lead to the theory of evolution; Winston Churchill, Britain's greatest Prime Minister; John Lennon who lead a revolution form his bed, and Tim Berners-Lee, who created the internet.

Daytimes and Thursday and Friday evenings London. 2 Hours. From £150

The Tower of London:
Death and Glory. This magnificent World Heritage Site is the crucible of English history - powerful, bloody, stirring. A guided visit shows you the Tower in all its brutality and all its beauty - from the ravens to the Crown Jewels themselves.

2 Hours. From £150

Westminster Abbey:
This magnificent Gothic church of coronation and commemoration brings together a thousand years of British history.

Hear about the epic lives of some of the 3,000 people buried here: Elizabeth I and her half sister Bloody Mary; the doomed Mary Queen of Scots; Newton and Darwin. See the greatest collection of tombs of writers and artists in the world: Dickens, Hardy and Handel. Reflect on great occasions of state, including the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales.

2 Hours. From £150

Saint Pauls Cathedral:
Christopher Wren's great masterpiece is the City of London's enduring symbol.

The dome which spikes the skyline at 365ft - a magical number to Wren - is home to the mystical Whispering Gallery. Our tour unravels the secrets of the building, its resistance during Blitz, and brings to life the heroes buried inside - including the artists Turner and Reynolds, and the great military leaders Nelson and Wellington. And, for those who want to make the climb, finish with one of the spectacular views of London.

2 Hours. From £150