Queen’s House
Queen's House is a former royal residence in the London borough of Greenwich, which presently serves as a public art gallery. It was built between 1616 and 1635 on the grounds of the now demolished Greenwich Palace, a few miles downriver from the City of London.Photo: Mcginnly, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory.
National Maritime Museum
Museum
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The National Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. National Maritime Museum is situated 420 feet southwest of Queen’s House.
Royal Observatory
Museum
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The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north. Royal Observatory is situated 1,500 feet south of Queen’s House.
Cutty Sark
Museum
Photo: Krzysztof Belczyński, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes. Cutty Sark is situated 1,500 feet northwest of Queen’s House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenwich and Burrells Wharf.
Greenwich
Town
Photo: KTC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Greenwich is an affluent area in south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the ceremonial county of Greater London, 5.5 miles east-south-east of Charing Cross.
Burrells Wharf
Neighborhood
Photo: Alctanay, Public domain.
Burrells Wharf is a riverside residential estate, owned by its leaseholders, in London, England. It is situated on the Isle of Dogs and the north bank of the River Thames.
Deptford
Suburb
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Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne.
Queen’s House
- Type: Museum
- Description: historic house museum in London, UK
- Categories: palace, art collection, historic house museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Queen’s House” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Queen’s House”
- Arabic: “بيت الملكة”
- Armenian: “Քուինս հաուս”
- Basque: “Queen’s House”
- Belarusian: “Квінс-хаус”
- Catalan: “Queen’s House”
- Chinese: “王后宫”
- Croatian: “Kraljičina kuća u Greenwichu”
- Czech: “Queen’s House”
- Danish: “Queen’s House”
- Dutch: “Queen’s House”
- Esperanto: “Queen’s House”
- Finnish: “Queen’s House”
- French: “maison de la Reine”
- French: “Maison de la Reine”
- French: “Queen’s House”
- Georgian: “კუინზ-ჰაუსი”
- German: “Queen’s House”
- Hebrew: “בית המלכה”
- Irish: “Queen’s House”
- Italian: “Queen’s House”
- Japanese: “クイーンズ・ハウス”
- Japanese: “クイーンズハウス”
- Korean: “퀸스 하우스”
- Korean: “퀸즈 하우스”
- Latin: “Domus reginae”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Queen’s House”
- Norwegian: “Queen’s House”
- Persian: “خانه ملکه”
- Portuguese: “Queen’s House”
- Russian: “Гринвичский дворец”
- Russian: “Квинс Хаус”
- Russian: “Квинс-хаус”
- Russian: “Куинс-хаус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kraljičina kuća u Greenwichu”
- Slovenian: “Kraljičina hiša”
- Spanish: “Casa de la Reina (Greenwich)”
- Spanish: “Casa de la Reina”
- Swedish: “Queen’s House”
- Turkish: “Queen’s House”
- Ukrainian: “Квінз-гауз”
- Ukrainian: “Квінс-хаус”
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