<p>1. Fan Museum</p>
<p>Situated in two Georgian buildings in Crooms Hill, Greenwich, the only museum in the world devoted entirely to its subject has more than 3500 fans, some dating back to the eleventh century.</p>
<p>2. Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum</p>
<p>This museum was founded in Southwark Street, SE1, in the early 1990s by a former tea taster called Edward Bramah. Among the exhibits is the world's largest teapot, which is capable of brewing 800 cups of tea at once.</p>
<p>3. British Optical Association Museum</p>
<p>The museum's collection, housed in the College of Optometrists in Craven Street, WC2, includes such treasures as Dr Crippen's spectacles, Ronnie Corbett's spectacles, 160 glass eyes illustrating ophthalmic diseases and a rare set of eighteenth-century porcelain eyebaths.</p>
<p>4. London Canal Museum</p>
<p>I loused in a building erected by the ice-cream maker Carlo Gatti in the 1860s, this museum not only tells the story of London's inland waterways but also has exhibits illustrating the ice-cream trade in the capital. One of the more impressive sights at the canal-side museum is a huge ice well which was used to store the enormous blocks of ice that were harvested in Norway in the nineteenth century and shipped to Britain.</p>
<p>5. Pollock's Toy Museum</p>
<p>Robert Louis Stevenson once recommended that, 'If you love art, folly or the bright eyes of children, speed to Pollock's'. The Pollock's to which he was referring (in an essay of 1880) was a shop in Hoxton run by a man named Benjamin Pollock where toy theatres and theatrical prints were sold. After his death in 1937, Pollock's collection was rescued from destruction and eventually became the core of the toy museum named after him. Pollock's, in Scala Street, was forced to close in 2004, although attempts are being made to find a way of keeping the museum going elsewhere.</p>
<p>6. Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum</p>
<p>This small museum is in the room where one of the most important discoveries in modern medicine, originating in a chance observation, took place. In 1928, the Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, returning to the laboratory after a holiday, noticed that a culture plate containing a particular bacterium had been exposed to contamination by yeasts and moulds. One of the moulds, Penicillum Notatum, had killed the bacteria in the area of the plate it had affected. The petri dish in which the mould had grown is on display.</p>
<p>7.Soseki Museum</p>
<p>Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), one of Japan's greatest novelists, was sent to London by the Japanese Education Ministry in 1900 and lived in The Chase, SW4, during his stay in the capital. He was utterly miserable in the city, suffered badly from racial taunts and homesickness and, on his return to Japan, vowed never to go back but the terraced house where he endured his exile is now a museum devoted to his life and work.</p>
<p>8.The Library and Museum of Freemasonry</p>
<p>Situated in Great Queen Street, WC2, near by many vacation rental London the museum houses is a collection of Masonic aprons, regalia belonging to the Royal Antedeluvian Order of Buffaloes, a philanthropic organisation founded in London in the 1820s, and a Masonic pouch that once belonged to Winston Churchill.
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