Somerset House
Good to know
- Best time to go
- May–September
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- wheelchair-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Somerset House is a grand neoclassical complex on the Strand, built in the 1770s by William Chambers on the site of a Tudor palace. Once home to government offices and the Navy Board, it now hosts arts organisations and exhibitions around a vast courtyard. Visitors gather at the dancing fountains that erupt from the paving in summer and freeze into an ice rink each winter. Riverside terraces overlook the Thames, recalling the days when boats moored at its arches.
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