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The Rothschilds' Regency mansion in its park, free, with the story of Ealing and Hounslow inside and the Victorian kitchens below.
Free
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, founder of the London bank, bought the Gunnersbury estate in 1835, and for ninety years the family made it one of the great gardens of west London, with a Japanese garden, an orangery, an Italian garden and woodland planted with the new trees from Asia. Ealing and Acton bought it from them in 1925 and Neville Chamberlain, then Minister of Health, opened the park to the public on 21 May 1926. The large mansion, a Regency house the Rothschilds enlarged, was falling down by the 2000s; a restoration finished in 2018 put nine galleries into it for the two boroughs' collections, about 450 objects out of 50,000, from Palaeolithic flints to a Lucozade neon sign, with the Rothschilds' own story, costume from the 1600s onwards, toys and a printing press of 1804. The Victorian kitchens in the basement are laid out as they were worked. Entry is free, and the park with its boating lake, temple and mock ruins is open every day.
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