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Richmond's vanished palace and its famous view, told in the Old Town Hall, free.
Free
Richmond was Sheen until Henry VII rebuilt the royal palace here after a fire in 1497 and renamed it after his Yorkshire earldom, and Elizabeth I died in it in 1603. Almost nothing of the palace is left above ground, and the museum's model and its fragments of the palace's sixteenth-century glass are the best way to see it. Local people led by the historian John Cloake founded the museum in 1983, and the Queen opened it in the Old Town Hall in 1988. Its rooms run from prehistory to the Second World War across Richmond, Kew, Petersham and Ham, with the river and the view from the hill, the only view in England protected by its own Act of Parliament, painted by Leonard Knyff around 1720. Entry is free.
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 11:00 – 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 11:00 – 17:00 |
| Thursday | 11:00 – 17:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 – 17:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |
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