Somerset House Museums

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Lonely Planet review

Somerset Houses contains three museums, of which the Courtauld Institute of Art (www.courtauld.ac.uk) is the best. Although it has several old masters, its speciality is impressionism and post-impressionism, with works by Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Matisse, Renoir and Van Gogh. The Hermitage Rooms (www.hermitagerooms.com) are an outpost of St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum and are only as good as their current exhibition.

The Gilbert Collection of Decorative Arts (www.gilbert-collection.org.uk) is generally less appealing, unless you like cabinets lined with European silver, gold snuffboxes, Italian mosaics and miniature portraits.